The view\u00a0of the seaside\u00a0front porch at 53 Rachel Carson Lane in Wells:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&d=sg20_digital_edition&hideIssuuLogo=true&pageNumber=154&u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This oceanfront retreat on <b>Wells Beach <\/b>suits a legend.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When young <strong>William S. Nutter<\/strong>, 30, invented Palm Beach cloth in 1908, he ruled the world. Suddenly, swells across the globe craved white dinner jackets tailored from Nutter\u2019s patented \u201ctropical weight mohair-cotton blend\u201d fabric.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Remember Humphrey Bogart in <em>Casablanca<\/em>? This summer, <strong>The Met<\/strong> is breathless in its description of the iconic suit in its costume collection: \u201cThe washable suit was comfortable to wear, and the Palm Beach suit became the staple of the well-dressed man\u2019s summer wardrobe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The clamor for Nutter\u2019s invention must have dizzied him. He needed the perfect contemplative retreat. For a breath of fresh air, he acquired this romantic six-bedroom oceanfront house on <strong>Wells Beach<\/strong> in 1909 and lived here with his wife Beatrice Rice Nutter, then 32. <strong>Fifty-three Rachel Carson Lane<\/strong> must have satisfied the scientist in William. If you swing a compass, this is the closest line from the Goodall Worsted mills in Sanford to the boom of the surf.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read more about our house of the month in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a Family Affair at 53 Rachel Carson Lane in Wells.<br \/>\nBy Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[892,232,224],"tags":[1082,1084,1081,1083],"class_list":["post-18835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","category-shelter-design","category-talking-walls","tag-53-rachel-carson-lane","tag-palm-beach-cloth","tag-wells-beach","tag-william-s-nutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18919,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835\/revisions\/18919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}