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The Birches (Belgrade Lakes, Maine)

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842: 90: 65: 264:-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and shingled exterior. Its main facade faces northwest, with an enclosed single-story hip-roofed porch extending across its width. The southwest roof face is adorned with an eyebrow dormer, and a fieldstone chimney rises through the northeast roof face. The interior has a large two-story living room, finished entirely in original varnished tongue-and-groove woodwork. A balcony runs around all four sides, with a stair rising along the wall dividing the room from bedrooms and bathrooms. 51: 853: 97: 72: 279:. The hotel burned down in 1955, and this cottage is the best-preserved of the three that survive. It was sold as a separate property after the fire, and was used as a summer cottage until 1994, when it was weatherized for year-round occupancy. 731: 826: 762: 746: 736: 892: 288: 821: 767: 877: 408: 788: 690: 246:
The Birches stands on the east side of Foster Lane, a short way south of its northern end at Lakeshore Drive, and about 0.15 miles (0.24 km) south of that road's junction with
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The house was built in 1916, as a satellite cottage to The Belgrade Hotel, built in 1899 and twice enlarged, all to designs by the noted
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Birches (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) is located in Maine
The Birches (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) is located in the United States
ME 27
Belgrade Lakes, Maine
44°31′22″N 69°53′14″W / 44.52278°N 69.88722°W / 44.52278; -69.88722
96001036
Belgrade Lakes, Maine
John Calvin Stevens
John Howard Stevens
National Register of Historic Places
Maine State Route 27
Portland
John Calvin Stevens
John Howard Stevens
National Register of Historic Places listings in Kennebec County, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"NRHP nomination for The Birches"
National Park Service
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