The Jordan Pond Gate Lodge in Acadia National Park was financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a prominent New York architect, in the French Romanesque style. The style greatly pleased George Dorr, the first superintendent of Acadia National Park, because of the island’s early connections with France. It was completed in 1932 with the intention of marking the entrance to the …
