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146 States Point RD Saint George, ME 04860

2 Beds

1 Bath

1,119 SqFt

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Key Details

Property Type Single Family Home

Sub Type Single Family Residence

Listing Status Coming Soon

Purchase Type For Sale

Square Footage 1,119 sqft

Price per Sqft $621

MLS Listing ID 1678668

Bedrooms 2

Full Baths 1

HOA Y/N No

Year Built 1970

Tax Year 2025

Lot Size 1.790 Acres

Acres 1.79

Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence

Source Maine Listings

Land Area 1119

Property Description

Set on a granite pier at the edge of Tenants Harbor, this 3-season cottage became the place one local family measured the year by. Each spring they returned and stayed through fall. The youngest among them learned to swim here, right off the granite, and the late-summer sunrise over High Island became the image that carried them through winter. Long before the house was here, the granite pier served another purpose: stone quarried here was shipped into the wider world, prized for its strength and dependability. In time, the pier became another kind of foundation, holding decades of life on Long Cove and Tenants Harbor. The house is deliciously unselfconscious, a true Maine cottage in the old sense—rustic, unfussy and deeply comfortable, with very little standing between daily life and the ocean outside. Its design was deliberate, but time is what made it precious and has given this place made of wood, glass, metal and granite a patina no architect could have planned. The Atlantic Ocean performs for you all day: lobster boats hauling traps, sailboats slipping toward Port Clyde, osprey working the water. Friends arrive by boat and tie up to the old bolts set into the granite.There are views here that resist real estate language. They are too immediate for "panoramic," too changeable for "picturesque," and too extraordinary to be reduced to a list of islands and horizons. This is Tenants Harbor at its most elemental: granite, salt water, working harbor, islands, weather and light. And the cottage does not compete with any of it. That is the whole point. Its appeal is not perfection. It is proximity. Immediacy. The feeling of being completely inside the place rather than simply looking at it. Bare feet on old floors. Puzzles, books and kayaks and collections of shells. Towels drying on an old apple tree. Boat rides to town, shooting stars, sunsets and sunrises, paths through the woods. It is a place you miss before you have even left.

Location

State ME

County Knox

Zoning Shoreland

Body of Water Atlantic Ocean, Tenants Harbor

Rooms

Basement Not Applicable, Slab

Interior

Heating Electric, Wood, Baseboard, Wood Stove

Cooling None

Flooring Wood

Fireplaces Number 1

Furnishings Negotiable

Fireplace Yes

Appliance Electric Range, Refrigerator

Exterior

Parking Features Gravel, 1 - 4 Spaces, On Site

Waterfront Description Deeded,Oceanfront

View Scenic

Roof Type Metal

Road Frontage Private Road

Garage No

Building

Lot Description Near Public Beach, Near Town, Level, Wooded

Water Well

Architectural Style Camp, Cottage, Modern

Schools

School District St George Public Schools

Others

Tax ID STGE-000222-000000-000052

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