Farm House Historic District, Bar Harbor, 1923-1929

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Criterion C: Architecture, Landscape ArchitectureLocal Significance.

The Farm House is the name given to a small historic district encompassing the buildings and grounds of the late Miss Mildred McCormick in the town of Bar Harbor. The property is noted for its designed landscapes, including gardens by the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, as well as for the attendant buildings, which were designed and renovated by the architect Arthur W. McFarland. Working together between 1923 and 1929, Farrand and McFarland laid out gardens, walls, drives, and remodeled and expanded the nineteenth-century farmhouse into a property that represents a significant example of an early twentieth-century Colonial Revival architectural and landscape design. The Farm House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places at the local level of significance in the areas of architecture and landscape architecture, as a property that exemplifies both a type, period and method of construction, and as the work of two master design professionals.