So finally I found an article about the house online. It is owned by the founders of the jam company, Stonewall Kitchens. It was a $5mn renovation (I don't know what they paid for the house). Here is the back of the home, facing the harbor. The grey edge you see in the foreground is a swimming pool.

The house in the center is from 1662 and the oldest house in Maine. Click here to read about its history and see more photos of it today. Gorge.

http://www.jacobsenarchitecture.com/bray-house-1

I'm glad my money went to a good cause. :) Beautiful house!!

Look at it on googlemaps, great views! I kind of want to move there.

My dream home will have annexes connected to the main house by glassed breezeways. This is gorgeous.

Yes, Oak, here it is on Google Maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0831986,-70.7022587,3a,75y,165.34h,86.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG-5NJtGznhhcNpAWX0_Gfg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Oh my, that is spectacular! Inside and out.

Beautiful home, grounds and view.

That is amazing! Wow.

Nice! I do like all that white - so pretty and clean looking 🙂

My dream home is a family compound with a communal area.

Wow, until I clicked on the Google Maps street view link, I thought it was sitting by itself. I never guessed that it was so close to so many other houses! What a cool house!

I wonder how it would be to live with that much pure white. It appeals to me, but the staff to keep it clean and keep the painted floors touched up must be enormous.

That is a lovely home. I used to follow a Swedish blogger whose home was very similar only IIRC, hers had a red roof.

I feel a little foolish admitting that I always thought Stonewall kitchens was a small local company

Oooohhh. Love it.

WOW!!

Very nice, and a great way to respect the history of the original home.

Thanks for sharing, it’s a stunning house. I love the stone wall, the roof lines and of course the view.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this. That really is a spectacular house. The stuff that dreams are made of. For some reason, i am curious to see what it looks like in winter.

I am familiar with his work, so immediately thought of Hugh Newell Jacobsen when I saw the house. Such a beautiful view. Here is a favorite, Telescope House. Another I saw listed recently, Meadowbrook Manor.

Wow, that's really spectacular. Makes me miss NH and the seacoast area.

Mtn, I don't know if this interests you, but if you are interested in just taking a drive while you are there this month, one of my favorite areas to do that is to go up around Lake Winnepesaukee. The western side includes Wolfeboro (the country's oldest resort town), Ossipee, Tuftonborough, Moultonborough, and Center Harbor. My mom and I used to absolutely love getting lost driving in the Sandwich area. One dirt road (well maintained) leads to another, and you can drive for miles seeing nothing but gorgeous green trees. And then suddenly, you come upon a lovely 300-year-old farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere. You can then come down the other side of the lake, through Center Harbor and Meredith (you'll see some gorgeous views of the lake), and ultimately end up in Alton, where there is a very nice, short, family-friendly hiking trail at Mt. Major. Would make for a lovely day....

There is a winter photo in the link.But here's another link that I think has some different photos too.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0831986,-70.7022587,3a,75y,165.34h,86.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG-5NJtGznhhcNpAWX0_Gfg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Best, oh yes, we were at a wedding there a few years ago and did a lot of driving (and boating). It is just lovely! I was just telling DH we should look up more scenic drives (but they have to end in a farm stand or a boulangerie!, so we feel productive).

Allison, Yes, the telescope house is such a gem. This house made me think of "Yankee Modern," a style done by a firm we interviewed when we were going to build instead of buy. Both firms like compounds, repetition of simple yet traditional shapes and a lot of glass.

PS We have a white painted wood floor in our K here in Maine. Going on year 7 with it and I still love it.

Perhaps one of these will entice you!

Picnic Rock Farms in Meredith

Moulton Farm in Meredith

Smith Farm Stand in Gilford

Here is another fave home of mine, about a mile from the Bray house in the other direction. I love its monochromatic formality, and the fence! It is a wonderful creamy color hard to capture in photos.

ETA - fun fact, before the Stonewall Kitchen people bought the Bray house (the one this post is originally about), it was owned by Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates.

Well that just really brings down the neighborhood! Lovely house..

I guess I am the outlier one this one... I do not find the Bray house appealing at all. To me the view looking at the red door section looks like a church that kept adding pods as the congregation grew. I don’t see any originality in the design, as this treatment is now almost a knee jerk reaction to a nice or historic or expensive or otherwise important existing house—-add on a family wing, a guest wing, a recreation wing, an office wing, however many you want, connecting them with glass corridors. HNJ does this a lot, it’s now his signature even more than the egg crate shelving (which I love, btw). I don’t mean to say the add on approach never works, because I have seen houses for which such a renovation has worked spectacularly. But when the result is this Christmas village or church appearance I don’t think it looks good. At some point an architect should say to a client “no, you can’t add ten thousand square feet to a three thousand square foot house and make it look like anything other than a groovy motel.

What a wonderful home and history!

Well, obviously it is art, and so subjective. Houses of this ilk in this area are added onto again and again. They usually look like very un-groovy motels.

From the road, it does not look like an intrusion, yet it meets the buyer's 21st century "needs:" that is why i like it.