Harraseeket Inn Explained

Hotel Name:Harraseeket Inn
Location:Freeport, Maine, U.S.
Address:162 Main Street
Coordinates:43.8604°N -70.1006°W
Floors:3 (main inn)
Parking:Yes
Number Of Rooms:94
Number Of Restaurants:2
Number Of Bars:1

The Harraseeket Inn is a historic inn on Main Street, U.S. Route 1, in Freeport, Maine, United States. Although today's business was established in 1984, the building it occupies was built in 1854.

History

Nancy Dyer Gray established the Harraseeket Inn in 1984 in an old Cape Cod-style structure, dating to the late 18th century, known as Conant Farm. It was used a stage station, for travelers between Portland and Brunswick, and run by Deborah Rose Dillingham and her husband, a blacksmith. Gray redeveloped the property into an eight-room building now called the Carriage House.[1]

The main inn, situated adjacent to the north, was built in 1854[2] [3] and originally had fifty-four rooms and included a Greek Revival building formerly called the Sullivan House. This building is now the Broad Arrow Tavern, one of the inn's two restaurants. Its southern wing was built in 1997.

The inn's other restaurant is the Maine Harvest Dining Room.[4]

It has ninety-four rooms, including nine townhouses.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About . 2022-07-30 . Harraseeket Inn . en-US.
  2. Book: Brown, Karen . Karen Brown's New England: Exceptional Places to Stay and Itineraries . Karen Brown's Guides . 2006 . 9781933810119 . 104.
  3. Web site: Nancy Gray - The 2006-2007 Gatekeepers of History . 2022-07-31 . www.preserveamerica.com.
  4. Web site: Harraseeket Inn . 2022-07-31 . Harraseeket Inn . en-US.
  5. The New York Times Magazine (1996), part 3, p. 76