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Stone Barn Farm is one of a small number of surviving farm properties on Mount Desert Island off the coast of
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, United States. Located at the junction of Crooked Road and Norway Drive, the farm has a distinctive stone barn, built in 1907, along with a c. 1850 Greek Revival farm house and carriage barn. The property was listed on the
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in 2001, and is subject to a conservation easement held by the
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Description and history

Stone Barn Farm occupies of land in north-central Bar Harbor, a rural inland area of the fashionable resort community. It is set on the north side of Crooked Road, just west of its junction with Norway Drive, and consists of each of fields and marshland, and about of woodland. The farm complex is set near Crooked Road, and consists of a wood-frame house and carriage barn, and an unusual
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barn whose first level is stone and granite (the latter quarried from nearby Otter Creek). As of 2020, only its southern gambrel end is clapboarded. The house is stories in height, with a three-bay gabled front sheltered by a hip-roofed porch. Two additions extend to the rear of the building. The carriage house a single-story clapboarded structure with a
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, and a track-mounted sliding door providing access to its interior. The stone barn is fashioned out of
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, and has a two-leaf board-and-batten door providing access to its interior. The farmhouse and carriage house were probably built sometime between 1850 and 1860, based on their architectural style, although local histories have placed the farmhouse construction as early as 1840. The builder was Richard Paine, whose farm was , most of it uncleared, in 1860. In 1907 Paine's son, Willis, sold the farm to the Shea Brothers masonry firm, who may have built the stone barn as a vehicle to showcase their building skills. The Sheas eventually leased the property back to the Paines for a time. In 1963,"Land trust to buy Stone Barn Farm"
- ''Mount Desert Islander'', August 28, 2019 the property was acquired by Harry and Mary "Cindy" Owen,Mary “Cindy” M. Owen
- ''Mount Desert Islander'', July 3, 2018 who granted the
Maine Coast Heritage Trust The Maine Coast Heritage Trust is a nonprofit land conservation organization. Its conservation partner is the Maine Land Trust Network, which is one of its programs. Formation In 1969, Margaret Rockefeller learned from the staff at Acadia Nation ...
(MCHT) a conservation easement on the property in 2001. MCHT purchased the property in 2019 for $625,000.


See also

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"An Old Farmer Saves an Old Barn"
- ''Down East Magazine'' {{National Register of Historic Places Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine Georgian architecture in Maine Buildings and structures completed in 1850 Buildings and structures in Bar Harbor, Maine Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine National Register of Historic Places in Hancock County, Maine