Highseas, Historic house in Maine, United States.

Highseas is a 2+1⁄2-story Colonial Revival estate built in 1912 on a bluff above Frenchman Bay south of Bar Harbor. Its walls are Philadelphia-made brick in tapestry bond on a granite foundation, under a hip roof with five brick chimneys and dormers. The ten-bay block has flanking wings; the west entrance has an Ionic portico and the bay-facing east side a six-bay Ionic porch.

Highseas was designed by local architect Frederick Lincoln Savage and built in 1912 for Rudolph Brunnow, a Princeton University professor. Brunnow sold it in 1924 to Eva Van Cortland Hawkes, a wealthy heiress descended from Gouverneur Morris. Her heirs donated the property to Jackson Laboratory, which uses it as housing for summer students. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

The house reflects the building traditions and living patterns typical of its era along the Maine coast. It stands as part of the regional record that shows how families and communities developed their homes in this area.

The house sits along the Maine coast and may be viewed from outside, though interior access depends on ownership and access policies. You can find information about visiting conditions through the State Historic Preservation Office or by checking the National Register documentation.

The brick for Highseas was made in Philadelphia and shipped to Mount Desert Island, where local architect Frederick Lincoln Savage used it in tapestry bond. The house survived the 1947 fire that destroyed much of Bar Harbor's estate district, and since the Van Cortland Hawkes heirs gave it to Jackson Laboratory it has housed summer students.