Thuya Garden

Joseph Henry Curtis built his lodge on this granite hillside above Northeast Harbor between 1912 and 1916. When he died in 1928, he placed the property in trust. Charles K. Savage conceived a garden here in 1933, then built it from 1956 to 1961 using plants from Beatrix Farrand's Reef Point Garden when that estate was dismantled, with financial help from John D. Rockefeller Jr. The result — a narrow lawn axis edged by flower beds of roughly equal parts perennials and annuals — opened to the public in 1962.