Bush compound

Coordinates: 43°20′36″N 70°27′33″W / 43.343282°N 70.459099°W / 43.343282; -70.459099

The Bush compound is the summer home of 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush. It is located on Walker's Point (previously known as Point Vesuvius and home to a Kennebunkport city park called "Damon Park"). Walker's Point juts out into the Atlantic Ocean in southern Maine, in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine. The property has been a family retreat for more than a century.

History

The estate was purchased in the late 19th century jointly by David Davis Walker, great-grandfather to President George H. W. Bush, and his son, St. Louis banker George H. Walker. Both built mansions on the point in 1902. D. D. Walker's mansion has since been torn down. In 1921 Dorothy Walker and Prescott Bush were married, and George Herbert Walker built a "bungalow" on the Point and gave it to them as a wedding present. When George H. Walker died in 1953, his son, George Herbert Walker, Jr. ("Herbie") purchased the property from his father's estate. It was not willed to him. Upon the death of Herbie Walker in 1977, the property again went up for sale and was purchased by Herbie's nephew, George H. W. Bush. The estate has since remained in the Bush family.