"Barncastle", also known as Kline Cottage, is a historic house, now an inn and restaurant, at 125 South Street in

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. It is one of the earliest and largest summer cottages in Blue Hill, and remains one of its most visible and idiosyncratic. Listed on the

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and originally called "Ideal Lodge" after the

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founded by its builder, Effie Hinckley Ober, the house was finished in 1884 to a design by George Asa Clough, Blue Hill native and noted Boston architect, Effie's childhood friend. Entirely engulfing a smaller

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-style house owned by Effie's mother Mary Peters Hinckley Ober Atherton, a descendant of early Blue Hill settlers, Clough's design derived from notable buildings of his more famous contemporaries: the massing of the main block was based on a cottage by W.R. Emerson, and the landmark arch-and-turret link between kitchen wing and carriage barn strongly recalls familiar works by

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and

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. The building has some idiosyncratic elements, including its central staircase, which rises in stages to an area featuring an interior window and balcony, and a modest bellcast-topped turret that rises from its main facade. Now housing an inn and restaurant, Barncastle was listed on the National Register in 1980.

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Barncastle web site
{{National Register of Historic Places Queen Anne architecture in Maine Houses completed in 1884 George A. Clough buildings Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine Shingle Style houses Houses in Hancock County, Maine National Register of Historic Places in Hancock County, Maine Shingle Style architecture in Maine

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