Schoodic Peninsula: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Acadia National Park
Matthews L. 2025. Schoodic Peninsula: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Acadia National Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 650088. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
Schoodic Peninsula is a rocky, wooded headland that juts into the Atlantic Ocean at Winter Harbor, Maine. Five miles to the west across Frenchman Bay lies Mount Desert Island and the main part of Acadia National Park (NP). Acadia NP was established in 1929, but had existed starting in 1916 as Sieur de Monts National Monument and in 1919 as Lafayette National Park. It was the first national park east of the Mississippi River. Acadia is one of the most visited national parks in the country today, and contains approximately 47,000 acres. Civic efforts, beginning around 1880, to both protect and provide public access to the natural topography of Mount Desert Island laid the groundwork for the creation of Acadia National Park. Similar activities taking place across Frenchman Bay in Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor by John Godfrey Moore, his heirs and other residents resulted in the addition of Schoodic Peninsula and its more than 2,000 acres to the park in 1929. Although geographically separate, Schoodic Peninsula shares with the rest of Acadia not only a common history, but also the same tradition of design in its constructed features. This linkage is readily apparent on the landscape. Initial development by the National Park Service (NPS) in the 1930s, including the construction of a new park road and a naval facility, were begun largely at the behest of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. These and subsequent NPS projects provided public facilities compatible with the natural environment as expressed through a rustic design vocabulary.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Matthews, Laurie
- Date of Issue
- 2025
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Architecture, Automobile, Conservation, Conservation of Natural Resources, Creating Social Institutions and Movements, Entertainment – Recreation, Expressing Cultural Values, General Recreation, Hiking Trail, Historic Designed Landscape, Historic Site, Landscape Architecture, Natural Area-Other, Naval Facility, Origin And Development Of The National Park Service, Origins Of The National Parks Movement, Outdoor Recreation-Other, Protection Of Natural And Cultural Resources, Recreation, Rustic Architecture, Schoodic Peninsula, Transforming the Environment, View