The Barncastle Hotel & Restaurant and a barn date to 1884. The inn has five guest rooms and suites, commons area, a 75-seat restaurant and an events space.
A Winding Boardwalk Grounds This Hovering Cabin Along the Edge of a Remote Pond
The northern Maine hideaway rests on piers above the forest floor and employs broad windows to frame the homeowner’s most prized views of the site.
Stephen Peck and his husband, John Messer, walked their remote, ten-acre plot in Maine for nearly a decade before building their dream home. Yet it was all those walks paths through the property’s dense forest and around massive boulders to the pond’s edge that ultimately inspired the structure’s placement deep into the forest, where the site best captures their favorite perspectives of the place.