Criterion C: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1887, 1893
Local Level of Significance
Crosby Lodge is located in the summer community of Hancock Point in the Town and County of Hancock, Maine. The summer cottage was built in 1887 in a John Calvin Stevens design for Lucilius and Eliza Emery of Ellsworth. The main house and Annex are architecturally significant, in a local context, under Criterion C for their Shingle Style design. The design is a good example of Stevens' important early Shingle Style work which created a national reputation for him. The period of significance is 1887 and 1893, the construction dates. Crosby Lodge is one of the first cottages in the development designed by an architect. Earlier cottages were of a smaller scale and more vernacular in style. Stevens later designed the Chapel at Hancock Point and two other cottages in 1898, 1890, and 1902 respectively. These examples are extant and represent the later examples of Stevens Shingle Style work. The attached Annex was built ca. 1893 in a similar Shingle Style. The designer of the Annex has not been determined. Both buildings have good integrity to the period of significance. In both cases, bathrooms and kitchen space have been altered, but the primary exterior and interior spaces appear to be unchanged since construction. The shingle siding, simple sweeping roofline, front and rear dormers, circular porch roof, multi-light double-hung windows, and open plan interior are distinctive character defining features.