House and Garden 
RESIDENCE OF FRANCIS E. BOND, ESQ. 
Kinnicutt of New York. It 
is situated close to the water’s 
edge, with pine trees protect¬ 
ing it on three sides; red tiled 
roof, white plastered walls, 
shuttered windows with heart- 
shaped openings, and white 
awnings, make it an exact re¬ 
production of a Devonshire 
cottage. Surrounded by a tiny 
strip of brilliant green lawn, 
and banked with flowers, it is 
quite ideal. 
Another well known man, 
the artist, Mr. Charles Dana 
Gibson, has a very complete 
little place on a point of Seven 
Hundred Acre Island, on the 
opposite side of Gilkey’s Har¬ 
bor. The approach is very 
picturesque as one lands and 
ascends the long winding flight 
of rustic steps leading to the 
piazza, which is really an out¬ 
door room supported by rough 
gray stone pillars, and shaded 
by gay colored awnings. Run¬ 
ning close along the side of 
the house, facing south, is the 
garden, a vivid mass of color, 
as one sees it from the water. 
Mr. Gibson’s studio, a square, 
green stained structure, has a 
delightful situation further 
along the shore—a most ideal 
place in which to work. And 
“ INDIAN LANDING,” RESIDENCE OF CHARLES DANA GIBSON, ESQ. 
“ SORELLA,” RESIDENCE OF FRANCIS 
P. KINNICUTT, M. D. 
surely one could not fail of 
inspiration in such surround¬ 
ings! There are between forty 
and fifty other cottages and 
houses; and one regrets that 
only a very small number of 
them can be shown. 
Close by the landing wharf, 
on a high promontory, com¬ 
manding a superb view in all 
directions, is the Islesboro 
Inn; a long, low, rambling, 
gray shingled building — in old 
days, a club house, and there¬ 
fore possessing a homelike and 
comfortable atmosphere, not 
to be found in the modern 
hotel. From this point the 
roads lead in two directions: 
one westward to where Mr. 
Jeffrey R. Brackett, the 
‘‘first inhabitant,” has a mag¬ 
nificent piece of land. All 
along this road are houses 
looking either south towards 
North Haven and the Fox 
Island Thoroughfare, or over 
the harbor. The second road 
leads straight away down the 
island to Turtle Head. Branch¬ 
ing off - from the main road, 
some eight miles down, is the 
long avenue leading to the 
place of Mr. George W. 
Childs Drexel —a superb piece 
of property known as “Coombs 
20 
