
AAA Four-Diamond oceanfront boutique hotel in a 1903 Bar Harbor mansion, with 27 individually appointed rooms, a restaurant, and Frenchman Bay views steps from downtown.
The Balance Rock Inn is a AAA Four-Diamond oceanfront boutique hotel built in 1903 as the summer home of Scottish railroad magnate Alexander Maitland, set on Albert Meadow within walking distance of downtown Bar Harbor. Designed by the Boston firm Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul, the three-story shingle-and-stone mansion holds twenty-seven individually appointed rooms and a restaurant, with broad porches and lawns framing views of Frenchman Bay. Steps from the Shore Path and the heart of the village, and minutes from Acadia National Park, it is among the most luxurious of Bar Harbor's surviving Gilded Age cottage hotels.
