“Lyndonwood,” 129 Calderwood Lane, Rockport, $3.975M.

February/March 2020

By Colin W. Sargent

Cyrus H.K. Curtis was just a high school student when the Great Fire of 1866 burned his beloved Portland down. His family’s house was a pile of ashes. School was out. The plucky kid grabbed a local job as a newsboy before upshifting to Boston, then Philadelphia. He found he had a knack for publishing. At his peak, Curtis owned The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Saturday Evening Post (which he snapped up for a reported $1,000), Ladies’ Home Journal, and Holiday.

If you make it that big, the next generation has it made. His house Lyndonwood, built in Rockport on the oceanfront, has been a family treasure ever since he commissioned Shingle Style architect Cyrus Porter Brown to design it in 1902.

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