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“Woodland Wonder” Listing is the August MHD Cover Story

Our extraordinary lakefront lodge listing nestled in the woods is featured on the cover of this month’s Maine Home + Design magazine, including interviews with the landscape architect and builders who brought this incredible property to life over a fifteen-year period.

The “woodland wonder” was a collaboration between three talented craftspeople: builder and carpenter Nate Holyoke, architect Will Winkelman, and landscape architect Todd Richardson.  The one-a-kind property is offered at $7,900,000 and is represented by Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty agent Elizabeth Banwell.

Learn more in the excerpt from the story below:

From the beginning, the camp design was driven by the landscape. “It’s a phenomenal piece of land, like a miniature national park,” says Richardson. The client wanted the camp to blend in with the landscape—not only by complementing its natural features but also by suggesting the story of a traditional Maine camp that has grown and changed with the years. From these directives emerged a building in three parts. To the left is a three-story “lodge” that might have been built a hundred years ago, with walls and roof covered in cedar shakes; it houses the public spaces and the owners’ suite. To the right is what looks like a 1950s bunkhouse inspired by a kids’ summer camp, with rooms for boys, girls, and adult guests. And in between, as if an afterthought, is a screened-in “link porch” that provides a lake view from the driveway—a priority for the owner. Just inside the French screened doors there’s a long bench and a row of hooks. “It’s truly the mudroom, where you walk in and drop everything. It’s very informal, very ‘camp,’” says Winkelman. The other side of the porch is a “more refined” space to sit and socialize over the view of lake and trees. “It’s a magical space,” adds Winkelman.

While a sense of tradition was important to the project, it didn’t get in the way of innovation. Shaded by forest and cliffs, the house was predictably dark. To bring daylight into the screened porch, Winkelman replaced the roof’s planned cedar shakes with glass. “You can’t call it a glass roof and you can’t call it a skylight,” he says. “You have this texture of the horizontal wood bands of skip sheeting, and it has a border of cedar shakes that frames the glass. The space just glows, even on the gloomiest day. You want to be in it.” The home also puts traditional wood materials to unusual uses—including a wooden walk-in refrigerator and freezer (Winkelman calls it “a technical tour de force”) and an automated entrance gate made from a log.

135 Hartview Circle, Orland, Maine 

Offered at $7,900,000
Represented by Elizabeth Banwell

This rare private wilderness retreat, reminiscent of the idyllic Maine 3-season compound, which existed 100 yrs ago in multigenerational family cottages includes 112 acres and 2,325 ft of frontage on one of Maine’s deepest and clearest lakes. It is part of a much larger 500 +/- acre ”kingdom property” which includes 1.5 miles of water frontage. The listed and aggregate acreage is defined by stunning topography, dramatic geologic formations, including two mountains, spectacular cliffs & mature forest canopy, and thousands of feet of private water frontage. At the heart of the property is a 6500 +/- sq ft, award-winning retreat, landscaped & built by Maine’s top architects and builders. Carefully fitted into nature, blurring where the indoors & the rugged moss & fern-covered forest meet, this home is as welcoming to 6 people as it is to 20. Construction is unrivaled in its attention to detail and craftsmanship. The simplicity and charm overlay commercial-grade security & utilities, designed to minimize time with laundry, dishes, opening & closing. The shoreline provides a private cove for swimming, canoeing & kayaking. Among the places that bring people together and into nature are the boat and sunset/ ”martini” docks, waterfront trail – and the swim rock, hot tub & grill area, which are built into the natural landscape out of local Lucerne granite. Dive from a shoreline boulder into the deep water of Craig Pond. Enjoy the national park-like terrain and habitat. Venture to nearby Great Pond Mountain & look back with wonder at the splendor of this magnificent property. Loons, owls, eagles, osprey, kingfishers, and a full orchestra of songbirds call the thoughtfully-managed sanctuary home. The listed parcel and entire acreage, which is available for purchase, includes multiple potential building sites for creating a compound on prime parcels of equal appeal. Far from crowds, but close to Northeast Harbor, Castine, Belfast, & both Bar Harbor & Bangor airports. Visit floatingboulder.com to learn more.

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