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The Philler Cottage, previously the Dark Harbor House Inn, is a historic house at Pendleton Point and Jetty Roads in
Islesboro, Maine Islesboro is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States, comprising Islesboro Island and several smaller islands. The population was 583 at the 2020 census. It has a summer colony accessible by state ferry service from Lincolnville Beach ...
. Built in 1894 for a wealthy
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banker, it is a high-quality regional example of a
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summer house. It was listed on the
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in 1985.


Description and history

The town of Islesboro occupies an eponymous island in
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, on the central Maine coast. The island is roughly shaped as two lobes joined by a narrow isthmus. The Philler Cottage is located close to the village of Dark Harbor, at the northern end of a peninsula that juts south from the southern lobe of the island. It is set on a roughly triangular property bounded on the north by Pendleton Point Road (the main north–south road on that part of the island) and on the south by Jetty Road. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a
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, clapboard siding, and a two-story servants wing extending to one side. The roof is pierced by two brick chimneys and several
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s with
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s, and is topped by a widow's walk railing. The long sides of the house each have an entrance sheltered by a porch with Tuscan columns, and an upper-level
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with posts topped by urns. A two-story porch, also supported by Tuscan columns, adorns the west side. The house was built in 1894–96 to a design by architect Fred Savage of
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, for George Philler, a wealthy banker from Philadelphia. Philler was one of a number of Philadelphia businessmen who organized an exclusive resort development in the Dark Harbor area, which was anchored by the now-lost Islesboro Inn. The house had served as the Dark Harbor House Inn, which is now closed.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Waldo County, Maine __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Waldo County, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Waldo County, Maine, U ...


References

{{National Register of Historic Places Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine Colonial Revival architecture in Maine Houses completed in 1894 Houses in Waldo County, Maine National Register of Historic Places in Waldo County, Maine