Last updated: June 11, 2024
Place
Pointe D'Acadie
Olmsted Archives
Quick Facts
Location:
Bar Harbor, ME
Significance:
Olmsted Designed Landscape
MANAGED BY:
Privately Owned
While George Washington Biltmore was acquiring the 146,000 acres of North Carolina land that would become his Biltmore Estate, he was in contact with Frederick Law Olmsted about a different project. In 1889, Olmsted began work landscaping Vanderbilt’s Bar Harbor estate.
Named Pointe D’Acadie, Olmsted would include new roads, carefully composed tree plantings, a new stone terrace and stairs leading to the large, shingled home. Additionally, Olmsted dammed a small cove by the water that could be used as a naturalistic swimming pool, Bar Harbor’s first.
Source: "Olmsted and a Gate," The Downeast Dilettante
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr
Named Pointe D’Acadie, Olmsted would include new roads, carefully composed tree plantings, a new stone terrace and stairs leading to the large, shingled home. Additionally, Olmsted dammed a small cove by the water that could be used as a naturalistic swimming pool, Bar Harbor’s first.
Source: "Olmsted and a Gate," The Downeast Dilettante
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr