$7.5M F e b r u a r y / M a r c h 2 0 1 8 4 3 real estate L isted for $7.5M on Beauchamp Point in Rockport, this completely restored seaside bungalow at No. 99 Calderwood Lane soars at ocean’s edge with its 1904 styling. When this structure was going up, so were the Wright Brothers with their Wright Flyer II at Kitty Hawk. Since then, this nostalgic cottage–thor- oughly modernized–has really taken off. A gift of joy The house was built by Edward Bok, editor- in-chief of the Ladies’ Home Journal, and his wife, Mary, for “their daughter as a wed- ding present,” says realtor Scott Horty. Mary Curtis Bok was the sole heiress of Portland’s print magnate Cyrus Cur- tis, who published the Ladies’ Home Jour- nal. As editor of Ladies’ Home Journal, Ed- ward ignited world interest in the ‘home- as-castle’ with his advocacy of domestic architecture. In fact, Bok coined the term “living room” (in a feature called “The Liv- ing Room is Born), and the Ladies’ Home Journal turned the “bungalow” style into a worldwide rage. According to Theodore Roosevelt, Edward was “the only man I ev- er heard of who changed, for the better, the architecture of an entire nation, and he did it so quickly and effectively that we didn’t know it was begun until it was finished.” Born in Holland, Edward won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for biography for his The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Auto- biography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years Later. “The Boks were significant philanthropists in Camden,” says Scott Horty. “Boks still own an adjacent property.” Near and Dear Surrounded by lichen-stained stone walls, this luxury cottage is an eye-popping point of departure, with 358 feet of bold water- front, four fireplaces, hardwood floors, cook’s kitchen, central air, more decks than an ocean liner, and a 1,900-square-foot green-shingled guest cottage nestled in the trees that’s an architectural attraction all its own. The entire estate’s 1.91 acres include a dock and deeded rights to a stone beach, R o m a n t i c r o c k p o rt courtesy camden real estate