Isabella Breckinridge House
Historic house in Maine, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Isabella Breckinridge House also known as River House, and formerly the Breckinridge Public Affairs Center of Bowdoin College, is a historic house at 201 US Route 1 in York, Maine, United States. The main house, designed by architect Guy Lowell, is a 23-room mansion which was built in 1905 for Mary Goodrich, widow of tire magnate B. F. Goodrich.[2] It is located on a 26-acre (11 ha) estate facing the York River. The property was given to Bowdoin College by Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson in 1974, and the college operated it as a conference center until it was sold into private hands in 2004.[3][4] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1] It is one of Maine's most architecturally distinctive and unusual early 20th-century summer estate houses.[3]
Isabella Breckinridge House | |
Location | 201 US Route 1, York, Maine |
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Coordinates | 43°08′27″N 70°41′18″W |
Architect | Guy Lowell |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Italian Villa |
NRHP reference No. | 80000263[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 28, 1983 |