{"id":7195,"date":"2012-12-28T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:10:34","slug":"lindbergh-slept-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lindbergh-slept-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindbergh Slept Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=201301wg&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=52&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Winterguide 2013<\/p>\n<h3>A glamorous anomaly with a past\u2013a tiled Spanish beachfront villa designed by John Calvin Stevens\u2013maintains her dignity against all odds.<\/h3>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19923 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/209EGrand-300x213.png\" alt=\"209EGrand\" width=\"207\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/209EGrand-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/209EGrand-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/209EGrand-200x142.png 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/209EGrand-492x350.png 492w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/209EGrand.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/>It&#8217;s a sunny winter day where Old Orchard Beach meets the sky. With fliers in hand, the preview crowd jams into the lush Mediterranean entertaining rooms of \u201cCastillo del Mar,\u201d a Roaring 1920s curiosity in the shadow of Danton Towers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost as though the house can hear the sound of parkas unzipping, feel the evaluative thumps against its paneling. Having hosted so many soirees, how now to welcome the impatient, the wistful, the frankly unsympathetic?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this place should be crashed with a bulldozer,\u201d Hank LaBrie of LaBrie Realty Group says of the mansion where Charles Lindbergh was grateful for a night\u2019s sleep in 1927, after landing the <em>Spirit of St. Louis<\/em> directly in front of the house, right here on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>As for <em>why<\/em> did Lindbergh stay here and <em>who<\/em> erected the giant searchlight in front of this house to attract passing aviators at night, these interrogations do not fit neatly into the here-and-now of the Murphy\u2019s Auction &amp; Realty handout.<\/p>\n<p>Because for all things, a time comes when the elaborative and romantic get collapsed into the \u2018right now.\u2019 Even a place with soaring architectural detail and this much interiority faces these indignities.<\/p>\n<p>The mortgagee\u2019s foreclosure sale by the Scarborough-based firm outlines terms of \u201c$50,000 deposit in certified funds to bid&#8230;closing within 45 days of public auction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside the tall windows, the white sweep of sand spills light across the terrace into the living room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/lindbergh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/house-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7196\" title=\"house-water\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/house-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/house-water.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/house-water-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winterguide 2013<br \/>\nA glamorous anomaly with a past\u2013a tiled Spanish beachfront villa designed by John Calvin Stevens\u2013maintains her dignity against all odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","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=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19924,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/19924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}