{"id":15774,"date":"2019-02-22T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=15774"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:47:56","slug":"charmed-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/charmed-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Charmed Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"issuuembed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 600px;\" data-configid=\"37604829\/68737816\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">First a tennis star, then a yacht designer. Who doesn\u2019t love <b>The Sears Cottage<\/b>?<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15848\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FM19-HIGH_Sears.jpg\" alt=\"FM19-HIGH_Sears\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FM19-HIGH_Sears.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FM19-HIGH_Sears-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FM19-HIGH_Sears-200x134.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Perched on 21 soaring acres with 1,110 feet of jaw-dropping views of Gilkey Harbor Bay, the Sears Cottage on Islesboro was designed in 1908 by society architect Guy Lowell for tennis star <strong>Richard D. Sears<\/strong>, a Harvard grad who won seven consecutive national singles championships from 1881-1887 and was in the first wave of Americans to play at Wimbledon, in 1884. When Sears passed away, another celebrity sportsman sailed in: <strong>Frank Cabot Paine<\/strong> of America\u2019s Cup fame. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>HOLDING COURT<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In Maine, the Sears Cottage was the talk of the island as it took shape with a carriage house and stable, billiard house, reading room, staff quarters, private pond, walls of roses, and long deepwater dock\u2014amenities still present today, according to LandVest, the listing firm asking $8.975M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Sears must have specified a pantheon in the wilderness, because that\u2019s what Guy Lowell served up at 135 West Shore Drive. Pillars, terraces, pergolas, awnings, and a stucco fa\u00e7ade completed the illusion fitting for a <i>Mayflower<\/i> descendant and grandson of U.S. Senator David Sears, who personally developed the lion\u2019s share of Brookline, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>LAUNCHING A NEW LEGACY<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In April, 1943, Richard died. In 1944, his wife, Eleanor Cochrane Sears, sold the nine-bedroom, 9,896-square-foot Renaissance Revival mansion to another proper Bostonian\u2014yachtsman Paine, who owned and designed many America\u2019s Cup defenders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Loveliest of these vessels was perhaps the J-Class <i>Yankee<\/i>, shown right during her launch in 1930.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>YOUR TURN AT THE WHEEL<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Today, eleven fireplaces still warm this yare home. The kitchen with slate fireplace is in museum-quality condition. The tall cabinets in the butler\u2019s pantry whisk visitors back to another time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">F<\/span><span class=\"s1\">rank Paine knew what the term \u201cfetch\u201d means to a sailor. It\u2019s the distance the wind travels until it hits you. Time and design have converged from great distances to create the Sears Cottage as it is today. It is certainly \u201cfetching.\u201d This summer, it will fetch a handsome price.<br \/>\nAre you game?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a tennis star, then a yacht designer. 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