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84 eastern prom, $2.4 million

You know this house. It’s the crown of the Eastern Promenade–the dazzling Victorian that leans toward the harbor as though it’s listening to the freighters slipping through the ship channel in the fog. Yes, that house, steps from the gazebo at Fort Allen Park, the one that’s most recently served as a B & B for lucky others to visit.

Now, in your mind’s eye, you’ve climbed to the top of the roof deck here. Surprised? Well, it’s new, cutting open a never-before-seen view that’s…let’s put it this way: It’s 10:30 on a warm, foggy Saturday morning, with the bay fragrant but invisible nearby. To your right, you can barely sense the veiled outline of the Portland House, though you can reach out and touch the turret that puts an exclamation point on this aerie with multi-

84 Eastern Prom’s merry widow’s walk high above Portland Harbor offers stunning sea breezes amid a panorama of the lighthouses, islands, and Fort Gorges .

level, theatrical seating.

Then, as though stirred by a gusset from Mount Olympus, a light breeze lifts the blue curtain and it all stands out with stunning clarity–the slope of the Prom kissing East End Beach, Mackworth Island, Little Diamond. A queenly tanker slowly makes her grand entrance on the harbor stage amid shafts of sunlight.

You mean, nobody’s ever seen this incredible view before?

“There was only a window in the attic three years ago,” says Wally Geyer. “Just a hatch in the roof when Tony Salem and I bought it. This wasn’t here,” he says of the heavenly deck, gesturing at the sweep of the view. Imagine watching the fireworks from this perch on July 4. Talk about front-row seats.

This is presently known as the Victorian Terrace on the Prom, a bed-and-breakfast inn?

“We bought this one and the two Victorians beside it [102 & 108 Eastern Prom] from [former Jotul North America owner] Eva Horton [for a total of $2.75 million, on July 30, 2004], who’d been running them as B & Bs. Today, this house could be run as a B & B, converted to a single-family home, or we could sell either one or both of two condos here for $825,000 each. “Eva picked us to buy this trio of houses, even though some people from New York had offered $1 million more for them. They were going to tear all three down and put up a huge tower complex here, but we promised to keep it Victorian. Can you imagine someone tearing this down? That would have changed the character of the Eastern Prom forever.”

Show me the magic.

“If you think ‘Portland, iconic location,’ this is the crowning jewel,” says listing agent Tom Landry of Benchmark Residential & Investment Realty, who says the East End has not been affected as much as the West End in terms of values for properties like this. “And it’s still not ‘historic’ up here, either,” he says, meaning requirements for restoration review are less time-consuming.

spindRift, $1,495,000

Location, location, location:

This gorgeous Shingle Style contemporary is located “near the small coastal villages of Port Clyde and Tenants Harbor in the township of St. George, a peninsula nestled between the Mussel Ridge Channel and the Atlantic. It’s at the end of a private drive which winds through three wooded acres and contains 220 feet of deepwater frontage on Deep Cove,” says broker Vicki Doudera of Camden Real Estate Co.

What’s the situation here?

“It was designed by renowned Maine architect Stephen G. Smith in 1991. In 2000, owner John Galley, an Illinois attorney and world-class sailor, purchased the residence and added an attractive carriage house with four garage bays and an expansive second floor suite with a private entrance, kitchen with fir cupboards, three bedrooms, and a full bath. Plans for an of-

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With its dramatic gables and porches, Spindrift keeps an eye on Tenants Harbor above a private screen of evergreens.

A wall of windows in SpinA wall of windows in Spindrift’s expansive great drift’s expansive great room captures Port Clyde’s room captures Port Clyde’s Muscongus Bay. Muscongus Bay.

fice addition to the house are also available and can convey with the property. Taxes are $11,125.

What can you see from here across the water?

“There are fabulous views of–as well as sunsets over–the islands of Muscongus Bay, including Caldwell Island, Gay Island, and Morse Island.”

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