own sandy beach? a sneak peek Inside A sweeping deck with gallery looks to the rocks and islands in the dis- tance. Too much breeze? Duck into a covered porch that turns a corner, with a rustic tongue-in-groove ceiling. Views from the massive living room telescope through a large picture window framed by dark beams below a coffered wood-and-plaster ceiling. The Walnuts boasts three fireplaces, one of which, in the library, features a brick and tile hearth sur- rounded by pickled paneling. The dining room has a bank of windows with views up the coast. Striking green crown molding and trim set off the white walls. Dining room too formal? Try the break- fast room with casement windows that let the salty breeze in, with views to forever. The pickled paneling is carried on here, too. Ten bedrooms give the house a bit of that twentieth-century dormitory feel that used to be so popular. A Real Classic Still, of all the roughly 18 Stevens designs out here, The Walnuts may be the most evocative. It’s accurate to think of it as the fruition of the first blush of the Homer con- nection to Maine, because it was young Ar- thur who convinced his brothers, and his parents, to come up from Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, and see the part of Maine he’d fallen in love with. “The three brothers, Winslow, Charles Jr., and Arthur, went to John Calvin Ste- vens. Each commissioned Stevens to do a cottage,” Shettleworth says. “Winslow’s was called Kettle Cove. The one for Charles Jr. is absolutely unaltered. The third one is The Walnuts. That’s largely unchanged as well.” As for the neighborhood, see the Au- gust 2017 story “Inside Maine’s Exclusive Prouts Neck Community” in The Wall Street Journal. Taxes are $82,526. n Real Estate 48 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine photo courtesy portland museum of art