Windswept was the seasonal cottage of Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973), the noted educator, author, and lecturer. She is considered by many literary critiques to be second only to Sarah Orne Jewett in her ability to capture the history and particular atmosphere of the coast of Maine and its people, yet her work also encompassed educational pedagogy, and biblical criticism. Located on the shore of Petit Manan Point in the town of Steuben, Windswept is a modest cottage with sweeping views of the coast of Maine, including the Schoodic Peninsula and Mount Desert Island. This isolated cottage provided Ms. Chase with the tranquility and isolation she needed to write, and in turn it also provided the inspiration for the setting of ?Windswept? (1941), her best selling novel about immigration and integration in older, settled Maine communities. Windswept was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places for its direct and important association with the author Mary Ellen Chase between 1940 and 1955.