{"id":20226,"date":"2021-06-16T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20226"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:01:57","slug":"dream-islands-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/dream-islands-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=summerguide_2021&amp;pageNumber=122&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ve all been islands this past year, yet sirens still sing to us from those alluring rocks where sky meets sea.<\/p>\n<p>BY PATRICIA HOWE &amp; ANNE STEVENS<\/p>\n<p>Sheephead Island $7,975,000<br \/>\nEast Penobscot Bay, Deer Isle 65 Acres<br \/>\nWhen Frank Veneroso drove up from Harvard in his \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d (1959 Chrysler Imperial) seeking \u201ca saltwater farm with a lot of privacy on the Maine coast,\u201d he hit the jackpot with an island he could drive to at low tide that \u201cwas a farm from 1794 to 1884.\u201d Veneroso purchased Sheephead Island in 1979 from Stanton Garfield, President James A. Garfield\u2019s grandson, and restored it to look like a 19th-century farm, adding two main houses, a guest house, and an artist\u2019s studio. \u201cWe wanted a house with lots of light and views, but that looked like it had been there for two hundred years.\u201d Irresistible when in bloom with rugosa roses, two-hundred-year-old lilacs, and enough lupines to send Miss Rumphius into a swoon, Sheephead \u201cis all of Maine by the sea.\u201d Taxes are $10,701.<\/p>\n<p>Pine Island $1,230,000<br \/>\nLong Lake, Naples 1.2 Acres<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s like a cathedral of trees,\u201d says owner Jay Bailey of Pine Island on Long Lake. Yet nearby Naples offers onshore dining, art galleries, and gift shops to explore. \u201cLong Lake is a hot spot and always will be.\u201d A short boat ride from Naples Causeway, Bailey\u2019s retreat is 750 square feet (grandfathered for a 30-percent expansion) of heart-stopping sunrise and sunset views. Children can jump in the clear water of the sandy, shallow swimming area. Taxes are $7,400.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb.jpg\" alt=\"sg21-DreamIslands-fb\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-DreamIslands-fb-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore islands for sale off the coast of Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20293,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226","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=20226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20295,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226\/revisions\/20295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}