Vacation Rentals:  Port Clyde:  Marshall Point Cottages: The Spruces Cottage & The Cedar Cottage

The Spruces Cottage
The Cedar Cottage

Marshall Point Cottages, Port Clyde
The Spruces Cottage and The Cedar Cottage

There are still a few places where time has stood still... welcome to one of those places.

Marshall Point Road is a finger of land jutting out from Port Clyde Village, off the end of the Saint George Peninsula. It's a place where you will find the Marshall Point Lighthouse, the entrance to Port Clyde Harbor and its hardworking and beautiful fishing fleet. It's also a place where people, even a decade ago, decided to build their summer cottages. It is now, as it was even in the less complicated times of the past, a place to slow down, take a deep breath and unplug from the hustle and bustle of daily life.

If you want to find a place where the phone doesn't ring, emails cease to exist and all you hear is the water hitting the rocks, lobsterboats motoring from trap to trap and the sweet sound of peace and quiet, you have come to the right place.

The Cedar and The Spruces are the beloved summer cottages of the Dalrymple Family, a family who has traveled from afar each year to spend summers on the shores of Marshall Point. Built as close to the water as possible, without being in it, these cottage are unique for their location, feeling and the sense of serenity that is hard to find these days.

It's like stepping back in time when you visit these houses — noted and cherished for the things they have as much as the things they don't have. There are no phones (cell phones do work here), television or Internet. Instead, they offer unobstructed and truly spectacular views of the ocean, pebbly beaches just a step from the porch, serenity, solitude, that quiet you have been looking for.

The owners consider these cottages rustic in an authentic, "neat as a pin" way. The two cottages are close enough together to house an extended family or group of good friends but also provide privacy from each other for those who only want to rent one house.

The houses are rustic, but provide the necessities to make a stay here easy.

The Spruces:
The Spruces, which is an architectural gem, has two bedrooms on the second floor; one with a double bed and one with a single twin bed. The dining room downstairs could serve as a third bedroom with the use of an air-mattress. There is one bathroom with a shower stall and a living room with functional seating and the most amazing views you could imagine.

The kitchen has a sink, a full-sized refrigerator, an electric range, microwave and essentials like pots and pans, plates, silverware, etc.

The Spruces also has a wonderful, covered wrap-around porch perfect for relaxing.

The Cedars:

The Cedars is a one-floor cottage with two bedrooms — one with a double bed and one with two twin beds.

This cottage has one bath with a shower stall and a living room that looks over the water from a bay window — this room also leads out to the front deck which is just feet from the water.

The kitchen has a sink, a full-sized refrigerator, an electric range, microwave and essentials like pots and pans, plates, silverware, etc.

Both cottages have wonderful, green lawns as well.

If you do need to check email once in a while or make an important call (it's a modern reality), there are Internet hot spots and cafés in Port Clyde and Tenants Harbor. Tenants Harbor is just 10 minutes away and Port Clyde can be accessed by foot or bike easily.

Both towns have wonderful general stores, restaurants, shops and atmosphere — Tenants Harbor and Port Clyde come alive in the warmer months!

Rockland and Camden are also easily accessed by car — Rockland is roughly 20 minutes away and Camden roughly 35.

Guests are asked to provide their own linens.

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P.O. Box 40, Rockland, ME 04841 • Ph. 207.596.6295 • fletcher@summermaine.com
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