Forest Lodge is a compact cluster of historic buildings which is almost as isolated in time as it is geographically from the rest of the state. A small, triangular section of the Town of Upton in western Oxford County is located northeast of the Rapid River, and is inaccessible except from Magalloway Plantation to the north. This is the location of Forest Lodge, originally a sporting camp built in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but later became the year round home of the best selling author Louise Dickinson Rich (1903 - 1991) and her family from 1933/4 through 1944, and her summer residence until 1955. The almost two acre property contains three residential structures and two woodsheds, all built by the 1940s or earlier, as well as several more recently constructed outbuildings. It was while she lived at Forest Lodge that Rich developed her literary skills and published her first stories and books. Her subjects alternated between the woods, lakes and wildlife that surrounded Forest Lodge and the few residents, visitors and seasonal workers who inhabited her area of the Maine woods. Although Rich published twenty-four books and at least fifty articles and short stories over a career that spanned almost forty years, Forest Lodge is the property most frequently and reverently associated with the author.