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Satterlee Tea House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Tower
  • Acadia National Park, Lafayette National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Satterlee Tea House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-13125
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Tower
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, Lafayette National Park
Description:
According to an article entitled "The Stone Tower on Great Head" by Gladys O'Neil in the Journal of Friends of Acadia and reprinted in "The Rusticator's Journal" (1993, Friends of Acadia), the observatory was actually a stone tea house tower built in 1915. The land (Great Head and Sand Beach) was bought by J.P. Morgan in 1910 as a gift for his daughter, Louisa Satterlee. The great fire of 1947 damaged the tower and destroyed the three nearby bungalows. Louisa Satterlee's daughter, Eleanor, donated the land two years after the fire to Acadia National Park. For safety reasons, what was left of the tower after the fire was torn down so that only the foundation remains. [show more]

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…The trail was part of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement system. of the late 1800's. …Buildings burnt to the ground in the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. …Harbor nearly lost his life and is now in the Bar Harbor hospital at the point of death, as a result of being struck heavily on the head. …Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010, p. 50-51