Sunset House på Chebeague Island Maine

The island is a peaceful retreat for those who enjoy quiet reflections or curling up with a good book in the hammock.

Facing west, the house embraces a panorama of coastal waters and the rolling fairways of the island's golf course. At the end of the day, relax on the deck and you'll appreciate why it's named Sunset House.

Sunset House is a family run business. Inside you will find unique mementos of retired Merchant Marine, Captain James KomLosy and our family's travels from around the world.

Come and join us on beautiful Chebeague Island.

Sincerely,

-- The KomLosy Family

According to one source, the name Chebeague is Native American for "Cold Spring Water", while another says it means "Island of many Springs".

The island is one of the so-called 'Calendar Islands' of Casco Bay. Originally it was thought that there were 365 islands in the bay, but it is now discovered that there are 222. Click here to visit the Chebeague Historical Society.

In the 1920s the Sunset House was an annex of the Hillcrest Hotel, now the Chebeague Island Inn. The brass room numbers you will find on each guest room attest to the former days when nearly fifteen boarding houses, and three hotels entertained island guests!

By the late 1800s people began to visit Maine in a phenomenon sometimes known as the "rusticators" movement. Cottages, Rooming houses, and Inns were scattered around Casco Bay and serviced by steamboats from Portland where crowds of tourists from the industrial cities of New England could get back to nature for a few days or weeks.

Chebeague Island enjoys a long tradition of providing Island Hospitality. In the late 1800s, stone sloop captains (famous for supplying granite up and down the East Coast), began opening their homes to mainland visitors. The Sunset House honors the tradition with a model sloop in their sign (above).