For the last cottage on Grindstone Neck, I present the stunning Whelen Cottage. Charles S. Whelen (1850-1910), a banker and philanthropist who served as one of the directors of the Gouldsboro Land Improvement Company and as one of several of its stock agents in Philadelphia, purchased a house lot for him and his wife Migonette Violett. The couple did not hire Lindley Johnson, like so many other cottage-holders did, but they worked with esteemed architect Wilson Eyre to design the home. The Whelens were typical of the type of person who chose to summer on Grindstone. While comfortably well off, they were not in a financial position to commission the sort of cottages built on an ever increasing scale in Bar Harbor. The property left the Whelen’s ownership in 1897, and the house was altered and enlarged in 1900. The large porte cochere, porch, and additional rooms added at this time by William Winthrop Kent, an alumni of H. H. Richardson’s office.
Buildings of New England 
Wildly inventive! Thanks for this great Winter Harbor series.
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No. The additions were not by Eyre.
They were designed for the Disstons by WW Kent, an alumni of HH Rixhardson’s office, and partner in Jardine, Kent & Jardine, who also designed at least two other cottages on Grindstone
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Thank you, I will update this. I was going by the Maine Preservation Commission’s write-up on Eyre.
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