With sweeping views of Frenchman Bay, the AAA 4-diamond Bluenose Inn is the perfect hotel accommodation choice for a memorable vacation on Maine's famed Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park.Here, atop a granite terraced hillside, you will quickly discover the allure of Maine's rockbound coast. The ideal location of our hotel places us just minutes away from the host of attractions that make this corner of Maine one of the nation's most popular retreats.The original building on the site of the Bluenose Inn was constructed in 1884 as a summer estate of Mrs. William Morris Hunt, an artist's widow. The stonework from this palatial "cottage", which she named Mizzentop, remains beneath the building that bears its name.