{"id":20904,"date":"2022-02-16T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20904"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:35:39","slug":"maine-the-international-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/maine-the-international-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine &#038; the International Style"},"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=%23e9e9e9&amp;d=porltand_monthly_fm22&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=52&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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0<b>1930s<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>1940s<\/b>\u00a0were the\u00a0<b>first to see the 2020s<\/b>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Scorched\u00a0by two world wars, designers braced for the Apocalypse. Few angels were in the architecture but plenty of angles. Shoot for\u00a0severe to the point of scary, yet occasionally intimate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Orgonon, Rangeley\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLocated at the summit of a hill overlooking\u00a0<strong>Dodge Pond<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Orgone Energy Observatory<\/strong>\u00a0is an\u00a0<strong>International Style<\/strong>\u00a0building that was designed by the New York architect\u00a0<b>James B. Bell<\/b>\u00a0and constructed in 1948 for\u00a0<strong>Dr. Wilhelm Reich<\/strong>\u00a0(1897-1957), a controversial psychiatrist who developed the Orgone therapy method,\u201d according to Orgonon\u2019s submission paperwork to the\u00a0<strong>National Register of Historic Places<\/strong>. \u201cIt was built by the Rangeley contractor\u00a0<strong>S. A. Collins &amp; Son<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Fortune Rock, Seal Harbor \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here\u2019s a rare residential example: In \u201c<i>Maine Forms of American Architecture<\/i>\u00a0(1976),\u00a0<strong>Philip Isaacson<\/strong>\u00a0wrote that \u2018The modern home\u2026made its tentative debut in 1936 from designs prepared by\u00a0<strong>George Howe<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>Clara Fargo Thomas<\/strong>. The resulting low house of native materials is cantilevered over the waters of<b>\u00a0<\/b><strong>Seal Harbor<\/strong>, a choice its architect\u2026shared with [Frank Lloyd] Wright.\u2019\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20905\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"international style\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/international-style.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1930s and 1940s were the first to see the 2020s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20906,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1199],"class_list":["post-20904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-febmarch-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904","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=20904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20907,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions\/20907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}