The Sunken Garden

The bones
of
a
hotel
The Sunken Garden is a lovely and quiet area that offers a wonderful place to spend some time after walking around the town of Wiscasset.
One of the first things a visitor notices, after the plants, are the number of cool looking rocks that surround and make up the foundation of the garden. The rocks actually have an interesting history.
Across the street was once the Wiscasset Hilton Hotel that burned to the ground back in 1903. Frances Sortwell, whose family owned the hotel, got tired of looking at the rock foundation of the building and finally decided to do something beautiful with them.
So she got together with some artistic and talented friends and decided to make a sunken garden from the remains of the old hotel.
Today the stones and all the plants of the Sunken Garden remain as a quiet and reflective spot to relax, rest or just think about the past. A gentle place of beauty that is worth spending some time.