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This website is for our family and friends who may have interest in Restawhile or have visited
us here; we rarely let others use Restawhile Cottage. N.B. The picture links all open in a
separate browser window, so close the pop up browser window to return to this page. If you just
want to look at all the pictures for the site, you might be able to see them all as a
slide show with short
identifying titles on some (unless this feature breaks).
Restawhile is a farm house built about 1855 (possibly between 1845 and 1855) on what is now Eggemoggin Road on Little Deer Isle, Maine. The first family member to use the house, in about 1910) was Cornelia Hancock, first cousin twice removed of Henrietta Gibbon Stratton Jaquette, who purchased the house on November 5, 1946 from Eleanor Reed Alum (for $967.10 including contents - but it needed a lot of work), brought in electricity in 1953, and then modernized the house about 1958-1959 with indoor plumbing, running hot and cold water, and flush toilet, and later telephone (ring 3 long and two short) - thus out went the two-holer. So who needs more than one outlet per room delivering up to 1 amp in the 1950's? The wood stove was converted to oil, but now there is a propane gas heater too.
Here are a few pictures of Restawhile over the years:
Restawhile c1926 with barn (long
since gone) and, in the background, Emily-Cornelia Cottage (named/built for Emily Howland and
Cornelia Hancock).
Cornelia Hancock,
possibly 1926 (Cornelia, a Civil War nurse, was Henrietta G. S. Jaquette's cousin).
Advertisement when
rented by cousin Cornelia Hancock about 1910 or so.
H. Arabel Jaquette, John Jaquette's
sister, possibly 1926, showing southeast end of barn, Restawhile beyond, and, in the background,
the house northwest of Restawhile.
John Jaquette in 2000 - main
house and 'kitchen' (now dining room).
Similar view in 2003.
In Winter 2003, view
in driveway from Eggemoggin Road.
Spring '04 with lilacs from woodshed
end of house.
Updated: August 25, 2014 (Created October 6, 2004)