Name/Title
Hubbard Cottage | Roosevelt Campobello International Park | Campobello Island, New BrunswickDescription
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, pp.117-118
HUBBARD COTTAGE
In 1891. Boston insurance broker Gorham Hubbard, Sr., designed a summer cottage, lithe Gables", on land he and his wife, Sara Nourse Henshaw Hubbard, had purchased. They had N. Johnson of Saint John, N.B.~ build the two-and-a-half story Queen Anne Revival design cottage. Gables and dormers dot the steep roof, while casement windows with mullions light each facade, which includes an extensive veranda as well. On three sides balustrades, each of a different design, surround porches, and on the side toward the sea, the gable end shingles have decorated designs. An oval window, and a starburst panel, sculpted in the Queen Anne design, are important features. Few changes were made before 1969 when the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission obtained t!!le from Mrs. Margaret Johnson, a Campobello widow whose husband, Leroy, in 1948 had bought this property from Hubbard heirs. Though he had planned to remodel the building as an inn, this never happened. Like other Queen Anne Revival homes, the Hubbard's front hallway leads to the main stairway, which is circled by doors to other main rooms. The Commission has added modem toilets, as well as restoring chimneys and fireplaces, among other interior changes. Mrs. Hubbard's piano, and the billiard room, like the front hall, have been left untouched, and no exterior alterations ·have been made. Needing a board room and overnight bedrooms. for· confer~ ences, in 1975 the Commission remodeled the former kitchen, in addition to using six upstairs bedrooms for guests. The Hubbard Cottl1ge is open to visitors most ofthe time (middle of May until late October) when the park is open. NHSD, JCB
