In Harpswell, One Home Led to Another

In Harpswell, One Home Led to Another

By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Trent BellFrom our September 2025 issue At first, Susan Leahy sought only to replace the ramshackle 19th-century cottage she purchased on a small island in Harpswell in 2018. But then the dilapidated cottage next door and falling-down barn across the road went on the market, and she bought them too. “It wasn’t so much that I wanted the barn lot,” Leahy says. “But I didn’t want someone to build a mega house there becaus…