{"id":20474,"date":"2021-07-15T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20474"},"modified":"2021-09-28T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:30:14","slug":"mediterranean-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/mediterranean-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean Maine"},"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?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=july_august_2021&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=96&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 allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Pink Palace, Castine\u2019s whimsical 1924 relic, is for sale for $849K.<\/p>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p>In 1924, Miss E. K. Branch, a banking heiress from Richmond, Virginia, hired William Lawrence Bottomley, famous in her city, to design a summer place at 65 Battle Avenue in Castine. Soaring above Penobscot Bay, Bottomley\u2019s Mediterranean-style mansion is lively, louche, and still an exclamation point among the fir trees and Colonial landmarks in this town. In its early days it was decked out in a shade of salmon so lively that passing yachts used the beloved Pink Palace landmark as an aid to navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Effie Branch brought her southern servants here and exulted in the ocean breezes of this colorful retreat. Her salons featured musical performances and dramatic readings led by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ellen Glasgow, a fellow Richmond native, lifelong friend, and devotee of Bottomley\u2019s divine designs. (Richmond still celebrates New Yorker Bottomley\u2019s brick creations along Monument Avenue, a landmark architectural district that today is thankfully not so monumental since statues of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis were removed amid civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20476\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"JA talking walls med maine\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JA-talking-walls-med-maine.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes from Tuscany to Seville on Penobscot Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20475,"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":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talking-walls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474","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=20474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20482,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474\/revisions\/20482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}