For just $249.9K, a stunner at the still center of the world.

By Colin W. Sargent

Now we’re talking. This 1820 Greek Revival landmark at 185 North Road in Bridgton is so crisply understated that every room looks like an Andrew Wyeth dry-brush painting.

All of the paneling is original, the wainscoting single-board.

The magic goes down to the floorboards. “During repairs we found letters sent to the family during the Civil War,” says seller Dale Daniels, 64, a former L.L. Bean executive.

Hidden Treasures

In a perfect setting above Woods Pond, “This house was originally built for Carson Rose,” Daniels says. “He had a brother who lived nearby; each brother had six children. My wife Bethany and I bought it in 1990 for $40,000. When first we came in, we were excited to see horsehair-plaster ceilings with lathes. But some of the ceilings were in rough shape, so room by room I blue-boarded but kept the lathes. Then we had a plaster artisan come in” for the finish work.

“That’s when we found the family letters. I was re-doing the living room ceiling,” his head poking up between the beams. “They were stuffed below the floorboards on the second floor.”

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