Jordan Pond House: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Acadia National Park
Commisso M. 2021. Jordan Pond House: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Acadia National Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 650060. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
The Jordan Pond House is a National Park Service (NPS) developed area in Acadia National Park, located in Hancock County, Maine. Acadia was the first national park established east of the Mississippi River and today encompasses over 50,000 acres across Mount Desert Island, the Schoodic Peninsula, and other smaller islands. The 42-acre site is situated on a mostly level area of land on the southern end of Jordan Pond, an inland lake bound by Penobscot Mountain, Pemetic Mountain, and two rounded mountains called The Bubbles. These picturesque natural features are the focal point of the site’s main building, the Jordan Pond House, a restaurant and gift shop operated by a concessionaire, Dawnland LLC. The current building dates from 1982, a replacement of an earlier building constructed by the Jordan brothers in the mid-nineteenth century and expanded into a popular dining and recreational destination by Thomas McIntire at the turn of the twentieth century. The historic tea lawn still offers visitors a space to relax and enjoy the vista toward the pond and mountains. This lawn, and the other turf areas that extend outward from the building, also feature scattered trees, shrubs, and remnant orchards. The property’s open areas are bordered by woodlands of spruce, fir, birch, and maple trees that spread into the adjacent hills and valleys. Segments of the park’s historic hiking trail, carriage road, and motor road systems provide access to the Jordan Pond House and other features at the site that include the Jordan Pond Gatehouse Complex, pumphouses, dam and spillway, dormitory, parking lots, old building foundations, and several abandoned trails and roads.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Commisso, Michael
- Date of Issue
- 2021
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ACAD , NER
- Keywords
- Architecture, Bridle Trail, carriage roads, Conservation, conservation movement, Conservation of Natural resources, domestic, dormitory, Entertainment, George Jordan, hiking trail, historic site, John D. Rockefeller Jr., John Jordan, Landscape architecture, McIntire Property, monument, Mount Desert Island, Pedestrian-Related, Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources, Recreation, Renaissance Revivial, residential, Restaurant, Rustic style, Scenic Landscape, Scenic Preservation, shop, Single Family Dwelling, The Great Depression, The New Deal, Thomas McIntire, Transportation
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 650060: Jordan Pond House