{"id":7628,"date":"2013-04-26T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2013-06-14T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T16:29:39","slug":"viva-la-selva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/viva-la-selva\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva La Selva"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2013<\/p>\n

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After she survived the Titanic<\/em> sinking, socialite Madeleine Astor, 19, came here to mourn her newlywed husband, John Jacob Astor IV; play a little tennis; and raise their child. Her astonishing Bar Harbor cottage, La Selva, is another survivor\u2013yours this summer for $2.3 million.<\/h3>\n

By Brad Emerson<\/p>\n

Only a few grand ‘cottages’ of Bar Harbor\u2019s era as a glamorous summer resort survive. One of the most famous, La Selva, is for sale. Its story is quintessentially American, a serial whose installments might have been written by Howells, Wharton, or Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n

La Selva (selva<\/em> is Spanish for jungle or forest) was built in 1902 for Andrew Jackson Davis, a successful coal operator from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His big payday came in 1900, when he sold the mines to the LeHigh Railroad and retired to enjoy his new fortune. The family had summered in Northeast Harbor, but now they set their sights on Bar Harbor, where they felt the scenery was even finer, and where in the company of some of America\u2019s most prominent families\u2013Morgans, Vanderbilts, Pulitzers, McCormicks, and Livingstons\u2013their marriageable daughters would be launched in society.<\/p>\n

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May 2013
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