Agamont Park (originally Bar Harbor Park) is an urban park in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. It is located at the northern end of the town's Main Street, at its intersection with West Street. The park, set upon a hill, affords 180-degree views to the northwest, north, northeast, east and southeast, including that of Mount Desert Narrows, Frenchman Bay and its islands. As such, it is a popular viewing point for tourists.[1]
Agamont Park
Looking north from just inside the park's Main Street entrance. The schoonerMargaret Todd is in view in the harbor
Its entrance from Newport Drive, off Main Street, is marked by a water fountain, designed by Eric Sodderholtz.[2] (Newport Drive is named for Newport House, a hotel which stood just south of the park between 1869 and 1938.)[3]
In October 2013, The O'Reilly Factor sent one of its correspondents to Bar Harbor after the town council voted to remove a Wreaths Across America display that had been in the park since July 2011.[4]
The park stands on the former site of Agamont House (sometimes called Agamont Hotel), which was built in 1840 by Tobias Roberts. It was expanded into a hotel — the town's first — in 1855. The building burned down in 1888.[7][8][9]
^"The Agamont Burned" - Bar Harbor Record, July 26, 1888
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