It Takes a Village
Traditional Maine buildings inspire an architect’s year-round retreat in Castine.
Kim Ridley
Hans Strauch and Darisse Paquette have fond memories of snowstorms in Castine, a four-hundred-plus-year-old town of antique homes and towering elms perched at the mouth of the Penobscot River. Their first was on their honeymoon in 1989, when a surprise November storm snowed them in at the Pentagöet Inn. “We were forced to walk around town, and we immediately fell in love with it,” Strauch says.
The couple returned to Castine every year to rent a place, but they longed to build a cottage of their own that they could enjoy in every season. An opportunity came in 2002, [for the rest of this story, see the February 2008 issue of Down East. For more photographs of the Strauch house, see the gallery in our "Real Estate" section.]
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