Walker's Point Estate

The estate served as the Summer White House of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

The property was previously known as Point Vesuvius and was home to a Kennebunkport city park called "Damon Park", but has been a Bush retreat for more than a century, starting with Bush's maternal grandfather and great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker and David Davis Walker.

When Bert died in 1953, his son, George Herbert Walker Jr. ("Herbie"), purchased the property from his father's estate.

As an adult, Bush, his wife Barbara, and their children George W., Jeb, Marvin, Neil, Dorothy, and Robin spent most summers at the estate.

While at the "Summer White House," Bush hosted world leaders including Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev for informal and private meetings.

When she would flash by in that neat little Chris Craft, blonde hair flying, all us little guys, who were madly in love with her—from afar, that is—used to sigh and dream.

The estate is situated on a promontory[2] of land called Walker's Point which juts out into the Atlantic Ocean.

The president did receive an undisclosed amount in flood insurance, but he chose not to take a deduction for storm damage on his 1991 tax return to avoid a conflict of interest as he was the one responsible for declaring Maine as a disaster area.