This beautiful house was built in 1897 on the rocky shore near Sunset, Maine as a summer home for famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Named Felsted, it was designed by the respected architect William Ralph Emerson. The house was used by Olmsted for only a year before he had to move to a hospital in Massachusetts, where he died a few years later. Olmsted, considered by many to be the father of American landscape architecture designed (among other things) many great urban parks throughout the U.S. including New York’s Central Park. He was prolific and his influence was great. This house was designed for him in his later years when he struggled with increasing senility. A great example of the Shingle style, it looms above the coast and has spectacular views toward the west. A great house built for a great man…
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An awesome look...really a home surrounded by nature feels like a heaven.