Dorr Foundation Don Tailar 4 10/18/08 The Dorr Foundation President Clarence E. Dow Vice-President John Whitcomb Treasurer Phyllis S. Sylvia Clerk Serenus B. Rodick Directors: Clarence E. Dow; Serenus B. Rodick; John Whitcomb; Harold H. Murchie; Phyllis S. Sylvia; Agnes M. Curtis; Beatrix C. Farrand. Members: Serenus B. Rodick; Clarence E. Dow; B. L. Hadley; Agnes M. Curtis; Beatrix C. Farrand; Harold H. Murchie; John Whitcomb; Phyllis S. Sylvia. PURPOSES To acquire by gift, purchase, lease or otherwise, real estate within the bounds of Hancock County, State of Maine, and to hold, develop, and improve for the purpose of making a permanent exhibit of scientific, educational and artistic value for the public benefit of trees, shrubs, herbs and other plants and of striking scenic features; for forming bird and other wild life refuges and gardens; for the experimental growth of plants not native to the region and publishing reports thereon; for publishing studies, illustrations and descriptions of the region's native life and landscape, early history and traditions; for furnishing opportunities for observation and study to students of plant life, of gardening, forestry and landscape art, and for preserving and developing to the full, the natural interest and beauty of the lands owned, or acquired, which may, however, be sold, exchanged, given away, or otherwise dis posed of, in whole or in any part. To act as forestry and fishery association or to act in conjunction with any such association or corporation within the foregoing area, and to hold and develop, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, lands and water suitable for successful forestry and fishery and operating these, (1) for conservation, (2) for educational ends, (3) for shelter to wild life and plants of lesser growth, and (4) for the greater beauty, usefulness and interest of the tracts so operated. To accept gifts of personal property, including property rights in letters and correspondence and all other literary works, with the right to use and publish the same. To maintain or construct a museum or place of exhibition for any purpose of public interest and to maintain buildings and operate the same and to charge admission or have the same free to the public. I To the Dorr Foundation I hereby deed, to have and hold or make such use of as it may deem best in accord- ance with my known purposes and desires, all my books, manuscripts and papers, wherever they may be, and all furniture contained in my present residence of Storm Beach Cottage, or elsewhere placed, whether in my Oldfarm house, or loaned to the Government temporarily for the furnishing of the Homans House, or to the Mount Desert Nurseries for the furnishing of its gallery or office, or to the Sieur de Monts Spring Corporation, or to the real estate and insurance agency known as Fred C. Lynam & Company, omitting a certain piece of furniture, to be hereinafter described, loaned to my cousin, Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott of Boston but including the oil portrait of my grandfather, Samuel Dorr, by Healy, which is now on loan to the Boston Art Museum for exhibition, which is, however, to be removed therefrom should the Museum no longer desire to make use of it for exhibition purposes or in case the Trustees of the Foundation desire to place it elsewhere. 2 In conveying this property to the Dorr Foundation I intend it to include all pictures, engravings, prints, photographs and photographic negatives and other works of art. This conveyance to include also a collection of Dutch tiles purchased from an old house in Amsterdam which was in process of demolition when my father and mother and I passed through there fifty odd years ago, and which are now set in mortar around two fireplaces 1) in my Oldfarm house, the one being the fireplace in the parlor on the northeast corner of the ground floor, and (2) the other being that in the chamber, once my father's, on the southeast corner of the floor above. These tiles, in the event of sale of the Oldfarm property, if not done before, are to be removed carefully and replaced by others at the expense of the Foundation. II To the Dorr Foundation I further convey by this deed the right under which I hold the land west of School Street, south of Park Street, north of Cromwell's Harbor Road and east of the lots fronting on Ledgelawn Avenue on its eastern side. These are lands formerly belonging 3 to the Transit Company, so-called, of which I was president and executive officer from the time of its incorporation, in 1907, until it was dissolved, in 1919, when I acquired them from it for the purpose of using them for the public interest in whatever way might seem best in my judgment, the responsibility for which will henceforth devolve upon the Trustees of the Foundation. The property conveyed under Article I in the above is property whose value consists mainly if not entirely in its personal association with my family or myself. Viewed in that connection, however, and historically, it may have interest in the future which makes it desirable, I feel, to preserve it intact in the hands of the Trustees. January 21, 1938. Signed: Officer 9/9/09 ile 1826 Dorr Foundation. (OF) Serenes Rodech appt. Dorrs Lauge 7/1/35 9/10/41 unsigned letter (Seremes Rodick) to Harold H. Murches, Att. w Dorrs' sale of land to NPS. ples add of Dan fould hd. t overeelip of factories in house that Don Selly to govt. Need to get fundam out + fadol + band R Dort's overlop. 300+ Page brow fallen HETPR registry copy of Deeds 1928. Also. 129 lots seemway of donors II ile 2063 HCTPR Eleat'' Futun f it De Idal, BHU IA, 1928. Bulk of content (300+pp)conscere i 4950 CUE II esteins 1826 Dors Fordal Purpose akin to UGA, leaf idehcal. except "care test a nuseen " al Diotaphone - transcribed October 15, 1941. I acquired the lands west of the Athletic Field and secured the Park Office site at the beginning of my work for a major group of Public Reservations with the thought clearly in view of such an approach to them as I am now offering the National Park which presently sprang out of my undertaking. The Athletic Field, the fundamental feature of the whole undertaking, I made safe for all time, ae long as Bar Harbor will endure, by giving it to the Town with restrictions against any building being placed upon it; the land west of it, held personally for a time, I placed in the hands of the Dorr Foundation, created for the express purpose of holding it, to insure its safety, independent of myself, as a n essential feature In the approach I planned to the Great Meadow, central to my scheme of the Reservations. Those chosen to constitute the Foundation were people I felt would understand and be in sympathy with the spirtt of my work and the end I had in view, and it is that corporation, hot I, that controls it now and has the duty to see that my original plan for a beautiful and undisfigured entrance from the Town to the group of Public Reservations lands which I was gathering is worthy of the whole and of what it leads to. The traot of land which the Dorr Foundation corporation has reserved in its gift of the entrance to the Park, the Park has no need of or use for at the present time nor in the future 80 far as can be seen; all that the Park Service officials at Washington desire it for, as I understand it, is to make sure that no use will be made of it in the future alien to what I now propose for the unique charaoter of the whole as an entrance to 2. theimportant National Park area. The members of the corporation and I with them, most gladly agree to whatever oan best secure this purpose without sacrificing the purpose for which the reservation was made, important also to the Park in my judgment and in theirs. This land did not enter into the question when bill for the taking over by the Government of the National Park headquarters site and its buildings was entered, not necessary to it, but was hold in tesorve with the intention of offering it to the Government later in free gift, when such plans as have now been adopted, plans with which I am more than content, had been worked out. All that I or the Foundation want is to make permanent so far as is humanly possible the opportunities secured. It has great opportunities and should be as enduring ***********. int the accomplishment, if rightly done, as the Park itself. I oan see now danger ahead in the Park-Foundation control, nor what I control myself which lies immediately beyond it. But beyond that, between it and the actual entranoo on the Park there is a good bit to be done to make the opportunity that offers there secure and developed to its best and fullest.