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Description
In the 1890s, William Haskell, a sea captain, and his wife, Elizabeth, opened a boardinghouse that they named the Ark in the family home on Deer Isle.
The Haskell family were early Deer Isle settlers. In 1793 Ignatius, owner of a sailing loft and shipbuilding business, built the house that became the Ark and that remained in the Haskell family until 1942.
William Haskell and his crew perished at sea off Cape Hatteras in 1915, but Elizabeth continued to operate the Ark. Their son Stacy Benjamin, who as a boy took boarders out for rides or fishing on his small boat, ran the boardinghouse after his mother died.
A number of New York Yacht Club members summered on Deer Isle in the 1890s. C. Oliver Iselin, one of the syndicate that owned four America's Cup vessels, stayed at the Ark. The yachtsmen watched with admiration as the local fishermen raced their sailboats into the harbor at the end of their workday. Their sailing skills were so good that the owners of the America's Cup boats turned to them for their crews.
The Defender in 1895 and Columbia in 1899 were sailed to victory by Deer Isle crews, among whom was Philip Haskell, Stacy's older brother.
The Ark later became Pilgrim's Inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
About This Item
- Title: The Ark, Deer Isle, ca. 1915
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Deer Isle, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.105226
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine--Deer Isle
- Hotels--Maine--Deer Isle
- Lodging houses--Maine--Deer Isle
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