Hidden Treasures of Western Maine Garden Tour
Sponsored by the Franklin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Thursday, July 24, 2008 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased online until July 20th. Contact the Foundation Office at 779-2750 for tickets after July 20th.
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Wilson Lake Inn
Wilson Lake Inn invites you come enjoy our gardens on the shore of beautiful Wilson Lake. We have a wide variety of gardens. We have raised beds used for vegetable gardens and for starting seedlings and divisions. There are shade gardens and full sun gardens.
A Victorian Rose Bed & Breakfast
A gracious 1903 Queen Anne Victorian style building, sitting on three artfully landscaped acres, seems designed to excite and arouse all of your senses. Sip tea on the veranda as dozens of antique fragrant roses perfume the air. Then follow the wrap around deck to enjoy the sunset as you listen to the brook and waterfall spill into the pond.
The Healing Garden at Franklin Memorial Hospital
This healing, uplifting garden with its colorful flowers sits quietly among the stately pines offering a serene setting to relax and reflect. Included is a butterfly garden, which was made possible by a generous donation from Loraine Spenciner in memory of her mother, the late Ruth Moody Jones. Flat rocks for the butterflies to sun themselves surround a waterfall, brook, and pond.
Nordica Homestead Museum
Off the Holley Road in Farmington, this quaint farmhouse is nestled in the shade of a giant maple tree. This small foursquare building has several rooms under its single gable and an ell reaching out behind. This attractive cape was the childhood home of the famous opera diva, Lillian Nordica (1857-1914), and is now home to the Nordica Museum.
Titcomb House
The Titcomb House, built in 1843, is an example of a vernacular Gothic-Revival cottage and is on the National Register of Historic Places.One of the interesting pieces in the house is Virginia Titcomb’s wall-size oil portrait of her mother, Grammie Chandler, painted in the mid 1800s. In addition, one room upstairs is dedicated to Titcomb memorabilia.7.
