Here you see two famous old structures in and overlooking Blue Hill’s Conary Cove:
The frequently photographed red boathouse is a motorists’ landmark. (Seamark? – I don’t want to say “watermark” and confuse people.) It was built about 1924 as a white boat shelter that eventually had a pier and was painted red by a subsequent owner. Along the way, one prior owner liked to run his seaplane up on the shore beside the boathouse.
The less obvious green house, on a separate parcel of land, might be more interesting to historians and architects. The original structure apparently was white and built in the early 1760s by Joseph Wood, one of two first settlers of the town that became Blue Hill. This house may have been rebuilt completely or partially in the 1880s and perhaps the front of it took on its Federal style then.
Although the green house now has Parker Point Road running right in front of it, it has an unobstructed view of the beautiful Cove, which apparently is why Joseph Wood built his home there originally
(Images taken in Blue Hill, Maine on January 2, 2026.)