Hidden Pond, Kennebunkport: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A woodland resort set back from the Maine shore, where the canopy is the whole venue and the sea is deliberately out of sight.
The Cliff House, Cape Neddick: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A resort on an open Atlantic cliff in southern Maine — no shelter, no shade, and a wind that is the normal condition rather than an event.
Camden Harbour Inn, Camden: How the Light Moves Over a Working Harbour
A Victorian inn above Camden harbour, where hills come down to the sea and the tide moves the boats twice a day.
Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Tremont: The One Decision That Governs Everything
An 1858 light on the granite of Mount Desert Island, where the famous view is from below and the safe ground is above.
Bug Light Park, South Portland: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A very small ornate lighthouse on a Casco Bay breakwater, with the Portland skyline across the water behind it.
Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, South Portland: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A lighthouse standing offshore at the end of nine hundred feet of stacked granite blocks. Whether the party walks it decides everything.
The White Barn Inn, Kennebunkport: The Venue’s Own Logic
A New England barn that has been finished, glazed and lit — which inverts every rule that applies to a working barn.
Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth: One Frame and How It Is Made
A lighthouse from 1791 standing on granite above the Gulf of Maine, and one frame that depends entirely on where the tide is.
The Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A museum with a walk-in camera obscura in it — a dark room where the city is projected live onto a disc.
The Portland Company, Portland: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A nineteenth-century locomotive works on the Portland waterfront — brick, iron and no view from inside it.