The Visiting List

Over the years, yachting was a popular pastime at Bar Harbor. Frequently this was in the form of the Summer cruises of the New York Yacht Club or the Eastern Yacht Club. But eventually this would lead to the creation of Bar Harbor Yacht Club. This club actually had three iterations over time, before the current club, each with its own unique burgee. Burgee of the first Bar Harbor Yacht Club 1885-1887 The first Bar Harbor Yacht Club was organized on July 21, 1885 with William Minot of Boston as Commodore, Aulick Palmer as Vice Commodore, and Authur Ryerson of Chicago as Secretary and Treasurer. Newspaper records show it active from 1885 to 1887. Its first regatta was held August 15, 1885.  Minot was an estate and trust lawyer as well as president of the Mass achusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. Ryerson became Commodore in 1886. The last recorded regatta of the first Bar Harbor Yacht Club was held on August 25, 1887. At that time Ryerson was serving as Secretary of the club. Bu...

Mr. John Innes Kane and his wife Annie C. Schermerhorn Kane of New York purchased the Bergner Cottage in early 1903. B eginning in early December 1903 and completed by the Fall of 1904, Kane replaced the previous cottage with one designed by Frederick Lincoln Savage. Kane first occupied "Breakwater" in the 1905 season, though until about September 1909, it is simply referred to as the "Kane Cottage" in local newspapers. Kane was gentleman and belonged to the Union Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Whist Club, the St. Elmo's Club, the Society of the Cincinnati, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and the Automobile Club of America. His w ife was a member of the Colony Club. The Kanes were counted as members of "the 400." The architect of "Breakwater", Fred L. Savage, was born and raised in Northeast Harbor, studied architecture in Boston with the firm of Peabody and Stearns and, in 1892, bega...

About a mile from the village center of Bar Harbor, on the bay shore  is a cottage which commands a sightly view of Frenchman's Bay. Fashioned after the Chateau de Blois in France and modernized to meet the requirements of an American home stands The Turrets. The Turrets 1895 The Turrets 2022 Designed by Bruce Price, this cottage was built for John J. Emery and Lela Alexander Emery of New York.  Emery was a member of the Lawyers Club, Tuxedo Club, and Reform Club. The Turrets 1895 The Turrets 2022 Though designed by Price, John E. Clark deserves much credit for its construction. From the excavation of the stone ledge upon which the foundation rests, to the top of the chimneys, both interiorly and exteriorly, The Turrets grew under the trained eye of Clark.  Charles Candage had charge of the carpentry work and  Calvin H. Norris did the stonework. By the time work began in  October 1893,  the local newspaper estimated that the cottage construction would ...