A committee was once formed to gather itself a project that would eventually have the whole of Bar Harbor’s summer colony revolving around it. With an idea in mind, the committee gathered itself to purchase a little plot of land on which to set a building that would become the nucleus of Bar Harbor. Reason being that “year after year, a great number of music lovers and professional musicians find their way here until it seemed possible to make Bar Harbor into much more than just a mere summer resort.” With the plot of land purchased, the committee started to raise the funds necessary to erect the chosen building, the Building of Arts.
