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Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

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Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Credit

Portland Museum of Art

Site overview

The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, is an integrated complex of wooden buildings designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, starting in 1959. The complex, which contains craft studios, bunkhouses, administration buildings, and a dining facility, is simultaneously cleaved to and floats above a steep hillside overlooking Jericho Bay and the Deer Isle Thorofare. The campus, which references local traditions of vernacular architecture all the while creating a sculptural form that is an inspired illustration of architecture as craft, was recognized as an outstanding example of Modernist architecture by the American Institute of Architects in 1994 with the presentation of their Twenty-Five-Year Award. Described as a property that, in only three decades, "has acquired the status of a New England classic," the Haystack Campus is heralded as among Barnes’ greatest achievements.

Primary classification

Education (EDC)

Designations

U.S. National Register of Historic Places, listed on December 23, 2005

How to Visit

Seasonal public tours available

Location

89 Haystack School Drive
Deer Isle, ME, 04627

Country

US
More visitation information

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Credit:

Portland Museum of Art

Designer(s)

Edward Larrabee Barnes

Architect

Nationality

American

Related chapter

New England

Related Sites

Completion

1961

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