A Bar Harbor mansion that sat alone at the top of a hill for decades but now is part of a high-end subdivision has sold for more than $4 million.
The 7,600 square-foot home was built in 1984 by Robert Juliano, the former owner of most of the acreage on Hamilton Hill, which overlooks downtown Bar Harbor.
The new owners of the mansion at 76 Hamilton Hill Way are Scott Henggeler and Melisa Rowland, psychiatry professors from South Carolina and co-founders of Atlanta-based MST Services, a youth mental health therapy provider.
Real estate listing sites say the property sold for $4.35 million. The sale was completed on Oct. 21, according to documents filed with the Hancock County Registry of Deeds.
Henggeler also, along with Chris Swan, is a partner in Kebo Properties, which bought 70 acres on Hamilton Hill from Juliano for $5 million.
Over the past dozen years, Henggeler and Swan have subdivided the 70 acres — first 14 lots on Kebo Ridge Road and then 16 more lots on Hamilton Hill Way and Equity Lane. After building the roads and connecting utilities to the properties, most of the lots have been sold off, with many owners building custom homes on them.
The former Juliano mansion was the only house on the hill when Kebo Properties first bought the land there in 2013. It overlooks the ruins of the former Thirlstane mansion, which was destroyed in the great 1947 fire that flattened many of the late 18th- and early 19th-century mansions that wealthy rusticators built on Mount Desert Island.
Juliano, who owned and operated a salvage business in New Jersey, included an unusual collection of items in the mansion when he had it built, according to a 2018 story in the Mount Desert Islander.
“Four fireplaces, a marble staircase, large wooden beams and exotic stone work are a few of the treasures here,” read a description of a 2023 online property listing adding that the mansion was “compelling and eccentric.”
At the time, the mansion and the 6-acre lot it sits on were listed for $8 million.
That same year, the mansion served as the location for the Bar Harbor Designer Showhouse, an event sponsored by Swan Hospitality Group and Decor Maine.
Henggeler and Rowland also own 91 Hamilton Hill Way, next door to the mansion, where they built a $1.4 million home overlooking Bar Harbor’s downtown village in 2022. Prior to that, the couple owned a summer home on West Street in downtown Bar Harbor for 20 years, selling it in September 2024 for $1.8 million.
