Land's End Historic District
In 1906 the Vermont native, Russell W. Porter, purchased 50 acres of mostly undeveloped land on Marshall Point, in Port Clyde village, town of Saint George, Maine. In the early 1890s Russell had studied art with marine painter Charles H. Woodbury and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received two gold medals for his Beaux Arts architectural designs and helped design an exhibit for the 1893 Columbian exposition in Chicago. Between then and 1906 he joined no less than nine exploratory Arctic-region expeditions as artist and surveyor, including Robert E.