THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, December 1, 2011 DANE from 10


were allowed. “While in storage, Mor-


ris Carter and Mr. Stout made regular visits to Center Harbor to inspect the storage area and do some conservation of the works. The staff attempt- ed to create the perfect environment by adding dehumidifiers and moni- toring the environment with hygrometers. And the guards were required to mop floors every three days. “The location of the paintings was to be kept a secret. “The paint ings and


stained glass were recalled to the museum on two dif- ferent dates: December 27, 1943, and April 24, 1944. Again tight security was provided by the Burns Detective Agency.’’ There appears to be a


minor error in the account as Edward Blaney Dane actually lived until April 5, 1942, a month after the paintings arrived. The garage in which the paintings were stored still stands and is now part of the Hearthstone Bed and Breakfast, owned by Jan and Paul Maggi. The garage bears a strik-


paintings being stored in the garage but does re- member that the garage was equipped with a large turntable onto which the cars were backed and which would be rotated so that they were returned to their designated spot within the garage. Speaking before the Center Harbor Histori-


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cal Society last fall, Dane said that the garage may also have held another treasure at one time, all of the money from the Brookline Savings & Trust Company, of which Dane was president . He says that during the


1919 Boston police strike Dane put all of the bank’s See DANE on 12


Storm on the Sea of Galilee, a 1633 painting by Rembrandt, was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.


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ing resemblance to one built during the 1910s on the Dane property in Brookline, Mass., which was capable of holding up to nine cars and had a car wash and a machine shop on the lower level.


Nate Dane, who lives at


the Hillcrest, right next to the Hearthstone B&B, is the grandson of Ed- ward and Helen Dane and was only seven when his grandfather died. He says that he doesn’t remember


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