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| title = Lemuel Cushing
| encyclopedia = [[Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]]
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| year = 1972
| url = http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4926
| accessdateaccess-date = 2009-02-25 }}</ref> Lemuel's son Francis Cushing formed the Cushing's Island Company in 1883 and hired [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] the same year to develop the island as a planned 'summer colony'. Olmsted designed the landscape of the island, along with architect [[John Calvin Stevens]].<ref>[http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=23340 Plan of Cushing Island, ca. 1888, John Calvin Stevens, Maine Historical Society, Maine Memory Network, mainememory.net]</ref>
 
The first Ottawa House was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1888. The second Ottawa House burned down in 1917 and was not rebuilt.