BLUE DUCK

Built in 1852 by the local Hadlock family as a ship's store, by the early 2000's the Blue Duck building had seen better times.
Named for a painted duck decoy long mounted on the building's north gable, the Blue Duck was used mostly for storage during Brendan's childhood and was donated to the National Park Service in 1948. He'd occasionally climb through an unlocked window with a former boss, an island builder named Courtney Chaplin, to check out the Blue Duck's interiors and think about how massively underused the space was.
So when the opportunity came to lead the renovation of the Blue Duck in 2018, Brendan couldn't resist. Around 2016 the island community started lobbying the Park Service to issue a request for proposals from groups interested in leasing and restoring the building. Islesford Boatworks submitted and became stewards of the space in 2018.
Our goal in working with the Park Service was to return the Blue Duck to its original floor plan and purpose as a chandlery, or ship's store. Shown here before restoration, at 160+ years old, with windows and doors that had been boarded up for decades.
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