THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, December 1, 2011 DANE from 12


feurs quarters above. This garage was published of- ten in its day as a model of modern efficiency. “E.B. Dane was a de-


voted yachtsman, and in the summers they went to Seal Harbor on Mt. Desert Island in Maine. In 1909, they purchased Glengariff on Dodge’s point, a roomy shingled cottage designed by Long Island architect Isaac Green only a dozen years earlier, and demol- ished it. “In 1911, work was com-


pleted on a new and much larger stone and shin- gled cottage designed by F.L. Whitcomb of Boston, also called Glengariff. V- shaped, the house domi- nated the end of the point. The new Glengariff was 40 feet deep and stretched 244 feet from end to end. Offshore were anchored


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ent town beach, where a brick building which once housed his canoe was built, and included two large barns, one at Long- wood Farm where 100 Guernsey milkers were kept, and another near Rte. 3 where Devon beef cattle were raised. Edward Dane also had


Glengariff, built by E.B. Dane at Seal Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, was V-shaped, 40 feet deep and stretched 244 feet from end to end.


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and had it demolished (His son David later built a house on the property). The Seal Harbor farm was later used as a riding sta- ble connected to Acadia National Park.’’ Nate Dane says that his grandfather was an inter- esting man, very private, who didn’t like attention and wasn’t written up in the newspapers like oth- ers of great wealth. And, while he could af-


The Vanda, a 240-foot yacht built at Bath Iron Works in Maine, was kept by Ernest Blaney Dane at his home in Seal Harbor, Maine.


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Mr. Dane’s successively larger yachts, culminat- ing in the 240 foot Vanda, commissioned from Bath Iron Works in 1928. “A dedicated plants- woman, Helen Dane first had I. Howland Jones of Andrews Jacques & Ran- toul lay out terraced for- mal and informal gardens among the ledges on the rocky steep property--- nature tamed by money. Later, Beatrix Farrand, who maintained an of- fice on her estate at Bar Harbor, was brought in to make changes and im- provements, and by 1933, when the Garden Club of America visited Mt. Desert Island, the Dane garden was one of the highlights of their tour. “Lacking the Pratt Oval,


the Danes purchased land half a mile from the main house for a small gentle- man’s farm whose barns, gardens and greenhouses supplied the estate with food and flowers and nec- essary services. “The Dane estates


weathered the great De- pression, but by WWII, things were drawing to a close. The Vanda was requisitioned for duty in the war. The Brookline estate was left in favor of a gentleman’s farm in New Hampshire, where Mr. Dane died in 1942. The Brookline estate be- came a private school, and later Pine Manor col- lege. John D. Rockefeller Jr., in whose view Glen- gariff stood, bought the house for a song in 1946


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ford to dress well, he al- ways wanted a more down to earth look and when he bought a new hat would run over it with a car so that it would look properly


crumpled. He says that at one time Ernest Dane owned 5,000 acres of land in Center Harbor and that the hold- ings extended all the way down to Lake Winnipe- saukee near the pres-


a large number of Belgian work horses which were kept at what is now the Waukewan Golf Club, where the stables still stand. Dane said that his father sold the 200 acres there and the farm in 1949 for $12,000, which the new owner thought was a great deal until he was told that Dane would actually have gone as low as $8,000 to sell the prop- erty. Nate Dane said that at


one time his grandfather employed 40 people at his collection of farms and was very loyal to those who worked for him. “He never let anyone go. He kept them employed and fed even when times were tough.’’


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