Bar Island

After being privately owned by several families, including the Rodicks and Pineos, Bar Island was the subject of a long period of arguments over its development and proposals to build a bridge to Bar Harbor, until John D. Rockefeller, Jr. quietly purchased the half of the island with the sandbar that provides access to the town. Acadia National Park now owns the entire island, which is accessible by foot at low tide, while at high tide the way across is completely covered by four to eight feet of water. Veazie Cottage, the mansard architectural-style building on the corner across the street, was the third summer home built in Bar Harbor; it originally stood where the Bar Harbor Inn is now located, at the end of Newport Drive, and was moved to its present site in 1887.

Bar Harbor, Maine · United States