Maine Attractions

Castine Post Office

Castine, Maine is home to the oldest post office in the United States.  The building was built in 1814 but post office use began in either 1831 or 1833.  

Door to post office - still has its original gaslight fixtures just not on the front porch!

Cornice

Penobscot Narrows Bridge

You can take an elevator to an observation window at the top of the bridge support tower - the bridge opened in 2007.

Christina's World

We went to the Farnsworth Art Museum/Wyeth Center in Rockland, Maine and part of the package was in Cushing.  The most evocative of all for Andrew Wyeth fans is the Olson House, the gray farmhouse seen in many of his paintings but most notably, Christina's World.  The unfurnished house displays copies of Wyeth's work in the rooms they were painted.

Christina's World was painted in an upstairs bedroom Wyeth used as a studio.

Olson's House

Wyeth's series of drawings, watercolors, and tempera paintings featured Christina Olson, her brother Alvaro, and the house itself which he did from 1939-1968.

Andrew Wyeth painted this roof top.

Window in painting Wind from the Sea.

Attic window

Third Floor Bedroom

Christina's Door and the painting done by Wyeth.

Alvaro's  dory - he came home to take care of his sister Christina and work the family saltwater farm.  No longer a fisherman he put his dory in the attic where it remains today.

Alvaro's rocking chair and the window full of the geraniums that Christina loved.

Hitching post outside the window.

A MAINE Favorite

Two lobster rolls and onion rings!  Delicious! 

Wedding Cake House

The most photographed house in Maine was built in 1825 by shipbuilder, George W. Bourne.

With hand tools he crafted five buttresses with pinnacles on top of each.

Attached carriage house.

Maine Diner

Scott had mac and cheese with lobster!  He's going back!

Saint Ann's Episcopal Church

Picturesque stone church built 1887 using sea-washed stones found on site.

Inside church with stained glass windows.

Bell tower

Church rock wall - St. Ann's also has an outdoor chapel that overlooks the Gulf of Maine.

Bush Compound at Walkers Point in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Farm Stand

This is a typical farm stand found along the backroads of Maine.