Maine Cottage with Lake Frontage

Description

1.7 Acre lot on Boyden Lake with over 100 ft of frontage. This year-round cottage offers plenty of living space and room options. There are 5 rooms that could be used as bedrooms, 3 on the first floor, making this a great “at the lake” home for anyone to share with family and friends or as a vacation rental. Cozy wood insert in the fireplace offers a nice back up to the oil furnace. Convenient location and wonderful view! Large yard space for outdoor activities, 2 car garage w/space for an apartment, several other outbuildings for additional storage.

This lakefront cottage in Robbinston has a fantastic view over Boyden Lake w/approximately 225 feet of frontage. The year-round cottage offers some options on rooms, eat in kitchen with fireplace to use as a dining area or sitting area. A small room off the kitchen could be a large walk-in pantry, home office, craft space or another bedroom if needed as such. Large living room with 2 new bedroom additions added off from that. Upstairs there are 2 more rooms each accessible by their own staircases. Large bathroom with the laundry behind that and space for the oil tank, furnace and water heater. Out the back door to the kitchen you find a nice outside area to sit and enjoy along with several outbuildings for storage and a large 2 car garage with an apartment space over.

The septic system was redone in the past few years along with the new additions to the home. Updated electrical and new chimney liner have been taken care of.

Boyden Lake is 1759 acres, 10.6 miles around it, average depth of 10 feet, maximum depth is 34, cold water lake.

Robbinston population is 559 by the last census. 35 miles Northeast of Machias (the county seat), 16 Miles North of Lubec, 12 miles South of Calais and the closest shopping and hospital. Robbinston was first settled in October 1786 by the Honorable Edwin H. Robbins of Milton Mass. He was a colonel in the Army, during the Revolutionary War and received township #4 as a grant from the state of Massachusetts for the sum of one dollar! Jacob Boyden lived at the lake when the town was bought by Robbins and was the first settler there. Colonel Robbins brought in settlers and named the town Robbinstown but it was later changed to Robbinston before incorporation in 1811

Mill Cove on Rt 1 was home to a large tide mill powered dam, this furnished power for a lumber mill, a grist mill and a card mill for wool. Liberty Point was home to the first school made of logs for the community and the area was known for its ship building and lumber trade. There are multiple lumber mills in the area and at one point there were also 6 schools in the town.