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PortMag_FP:Layout 1 3/9/09 5:29 PM Page 1 Perfect is Possible The ultimate getaway is closer than you think. Experience the serenity of a true coastal Maine vacation at Anchorage By The Sea, where you’ll find breathtaking views, pristine accommodations, and gracious service. All of this, and famed Marginal Way only a short stroll from your door. Perfect is Possible, and it isn’t far away. 125 Shore Road I P.O. Box 2406 I Ogunquit, ME 03907 I T: 207.646.9384 I AnchorageByTheSea.com t a l k i n g w a l l s RecoveryRecovery CurvesCurvesA charmed restoration of a one-of- a-kind modernist residence gets it right, down to the last detail. by brad favreau ummer homes are not particularly unusual here in Maine, but the home William Burden and his wife Margaret built during the late 1940s proved Sto be a rarity among its neighboring seaside homes. While most ocean houses favor Colonial Revival or the Shingle Style, the Burdens dared to create a mod- ernist gem that would soon become as essential to the Maine coast as the rocky shore or the cool, salty breez- es that whip past the nearest lighthouse. When fire struck down the house in 1998, there was no question it would be rebuilt. But as times have changed since the post-war period, so have building methods and materials. In order to recreate the house that the Burden family had always loved, a team of builders, artisans, and designers led by Boston-area architect Hein- rich Hermann had to perform “some structural acrobat- ics” in rebuilding to meet current codes. But as talented as this team was, Fate, on more than on one occasion, played an important part in the nge photos A Ch A e s nn/ A erm h . h t: se s; in A The Burden family home, designed originally by Wallace K. Harrison and Isamu Noguchi, hugs the rocky coastline. 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Right: Japanese- American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi RainbowConstruction_One3rd_Oct09.indd 1 8/26/09 11:40 AM RainbowConstruction_One3rd_Oct09.indd4 4 p o r t l a n d 1 m o n t h l y m A g A8/26/09z i n 11:40 e AM The living room, with built- in bookshelves and fireplace (inset), flows interactively in- to the dining room. nebo lodge Wood Flooring An Island Inn & Restaurant Made in Maine North Haven, Maine 207.867.2007 800-769-6196 nge photos (2) A www.nebolodge.com www.aesampsonandson.com Ch A e s nn/ A erm h . h DeadHead Lumber effort to bring the house back–true and accu- co m p a n y hi museum; rate–to the original. C Reclaiming sunken logs from Maine lakes and rivers illiam Armistead Moale Burden, hailing from the Vanderbilt family, was a financier, art col- nge photos; nogu A lector, and diplomat (serving as Ambassa- Ch W A e s dor to Belgium from 1959 to 1961). In the nn/ late 1940s, he engaged architect Wallace A erm Kirkman Harrison to design his summer h . h house in Maine. Though not widely known today, during his heyday Harrison collabo- rated with such 20th-century architectural masters as Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, and Eero Saarinen, all strong proponents of ommons/file photo; C modernist architecture, experimenting A with design that sprung from the Interna- tional Style that had been defined twenty years earlier. Among Harrison’s portfolio of later works are major projects such as the Time-Life Building and the Exxon Build- ing, both at Rockefeller Center in New York Hardwood Flooring · Millwork · Wood Countertops City, and the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York. 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Not for a moment did he realize that the dozens of images he took that day would serve more than his wife’s re- search project. Heinrich had completely pho- to-documented the house, practically inch-by-inch, creating a record that would lat- er prove indescribably important to the house’s restoration.
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