{"id":88,"date":"2017-06-12T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/?p=88"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:57:14","slug":"white-cedar-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/brunswick-region\/white-cedar-inn\/","title":{"rendered":"White Cedar Inn, Freeport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Victorian-era New England house was once the home of Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan. The house is thought to be one of the original homes built by E.B. Mallet to house workers employed in his many industrial operations. Subsequently, pharmacist Winthrop Fogg purchased the house. He married Letitia MacMillan, one of Donald MacMillan&#8217;s sisters, and after their mother\u2019s death young Donald went to Freeport to live with Letitia and Winthrop. MacMillan attended Freeport High School and became a familiar figure around town. Years later local residents often encountered MacMillan, back from one of his expeditions, and he would give them impromptu lectures about the Arctic. This now-defunct bed and breakfast once featured guest rooms named after Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan, his family members, and his renowned schooner, <em data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"219\">Bowdoin<\/em>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/White-Cedar-Inn.jpg\" alt=\"white cedar inn\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/White-Cedar-Inn.jpg 550w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/White-Cedar-Inn-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/white-cedar-inn-room.jpg\" alt=\"white cedar inn room\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/white-cedar-inn-room.jpg 550w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/white-cedar-inn-room-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Address:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/White+Cedar+Inn+Bed+and+Breakfast\/@43.8614884,-70.1023298,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cb27e43f8e7b759:0x13f2ef76286b43d8!8m2!3d43.8614884!4d-70.1001411\">178 Maine St. Freeport, ME 04032<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Image courtesy to\u00a0White Cedar Inn, Freeport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Victorian-era New England house was once the home of Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan. The house is thought to be one of the original homes built by E.B. Mallet to house workers employed in his many industrial operations. Subsequently, pharmacist Winthrop Fogg purchased the house. He married Letitia MacMillan, one of Donald MacMillan&#8217;s sisters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brunswick-region","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}