House of the Month 82 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine The knowles co. Ralph Emerson, Rotch & Tilden, Frank Furness, and Bruce Price. In 1902, David Haight’s heirs sold three parcels of their father’s shorefront, and in the next two years, three grand new cottag- es appeared: Andrews Davis’s “La Selva,” Henry Lane Eno’s “Sonogee,” and Edith Vanderbilt Fabbri’s “Buonriposo.” The Davis cottage (See our story “Viva La Selva,” May 2013) was in the tradition- al idiom, but the Eno and Fabbri cottag- es were inspired by Mediterranean villas, a style newly popular in Bar Harbor, where florid travel writers of the day often drew comparison to Italian coastal vistas . The Brahmin & The Ladds I n May 1908, the Bar Harbor Record announced that the Haight cottage was to be demolished by its new own- er, yachtsman Walter Graeme Ladd of Pas- adena, California. The site was to be pre- pared for a new cottage by architect Guy Lowell, whose Building of Arts in Bar Har- bor was nearing completion (See our story “Athens in the Wilderness,” April 2014). Walter Ladd had worked as an insur- ance broker, but his chief occupation was managing the fortune of his wife, the for- mer Kate Everitt Macy. Kate’s grandfather, Josiah Macy, was a Quaker from Nantucket who’d parlayed a fortune made in shipping and commissions into another as the first oil refiner in New York, and finally into a third, when that refinery was sold to John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust. Mrs. Ladd and her brother, V. Everitt Macy, were the principal heirs to their grandfather’s $40M estate (approximately $1.2 billion in Born in 1870, architect Guy Lowell was one of the Boston Brahmin Lowells, a cousin of Pulitzer prizewinning poet Amy Lowell and her brother Percival Lowell, who discov- ered the planet Pluto. Guy died of a stroke at sea near the Madeira Islands en route to Europe in 1927. But before that he created a pantheon of startling buildings. For example: • Guy Lowell designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Guy’swifewasHenriettaSargent,cousinofJohnSingerSargent. JohnSingerSargentdrewthischarcoalimageofGuy,above. Dazzling Vistas