You should buy a Maine island with a lighthouse for $400K
A one-room cottage with out working water and a composting rest room within the base of an ornamental lighthouse put this island getaway in Canton within the highlight on Zillow Gone Wild, which posted the weird residence Thursday on Instagram.
Native resident Charles Ray constructed the lighthouse and cottage in 1937, assembling sufficient native area stone to create a man-made island in a shallow space of Anasagunticook Lake, mentioned actual property agent Rebecca LaBrie of Meservier & Associates in Auburn, which is dealing with the sale.
The house is a couple of 40-minute drive north of Lewiston. The 480-square-foot cottage, lighthouse and small slice of close by shoreland is promoting for $400,000, down $25,000 from when it was first listed in late Could.
LaBrie mentioned one deal fell by as a result of the would-be purchaser wished to construct a shower home on the shoreland lot that wasn’t allowed. All the potential consumers which have checked out it to this point have been from out of state, the latest a Vermonter who handed as a result of lack of working water.
“Individuals are in search of one thing totally different on the water the place they will boat and fish,” LaBrie mentioned. “However I don’t suppose lots of people from out-of-state have spent quite a lot of time with out working water, and the composting rest room is one thing totally different for them.”
The house has been used seasonally. The present proprietor, Mary Seaman, has had it for 2 years. LaBrie mentioned it may need been simply too distant for Seaman, who used to personal The Nice Open air occasion house on Nice Pond in close by Turner.
“She’s a single woman on the market,” LaBrie mentioned. “She thought it could be cool to personal it after which realized that it was just a little distant.”
This isn’t the primary Maine island on the market the place the enchantment of peace, quiet and remoteness had blended responses. A Down East getaway on Duck Ledges Island was listed on the market a few years in the past touting sound sleep and no mosquitoes, however earlier than you could possibly purchase it, you needed to present the vendor you could possibly survive an evening there. Somebody closed on it final summer season.
LaJoie mentioned when she visits the island in Canton it’s so peaceable and quiet that she doesn’t wish to go away. She likes to have a look at the bushes on the shore. The island has no bushes for shade, however loads of sunshine.
Water is from the lake, and a rest room go to includes strolling from the cottage to the bottom of the lighthouse, the place the composting rest room awaits. The open-concept residence, which was renovated in 2022, features a triple bunk mattress constructed into one wall and a queen-sized mattress. The house is for seasonal use, having bottled gasoline, wooden and propane for warmth and cooking.
The Canton property contains two deeds, one for the island constructions and the opposite for a small slice of shoreland within the Oxford County city of 1,100 residents. The land is about 100-feet lengthy and 38-feet broad with a sandy seaside and dock to launch a small boat to the island. A camper that might embrace a bathe and bathroom is allowed on the land for 3 months at a time, LaBrie mentioned.
The property is named Rocky Mecca after the Rockemeka village as soon as inhabited by Abenaki Indians on Canton Level, in accordance with collectors’ web site WorthPoint.
