Robert Indiana's Maine Home Listed for Sale at $1.4 Million
The Star of Hope Foundation, established by the estate of the late artist Robert Indiana, has listed his longtime home on Vinalhaven, Maine, for sale at US$1.4 million — a property Indiana's will once envisioned turning into a museum.
The Star of Hope Lodge, a building at 46 Main Street originally constructed in the 1870s, contains 12 rooms that hold decades of Indiana's work, according to The Maine Mag. The foundation announced on 27 August 2026 that it will sell the majority of its real estate on the island, a community of roughly 1,200 people accessible by ferry from Rockland, Maine (Midcoast Villager, Facebook).
A second Vinalhaven property, at 10 Main Street, is listed at US$210,000 (New York Times).
Indiana, best known for his "LOVE" sculpture and image that became one of the most widely reproduced works of post-war American art, died in 2018 at his Vinalhaven home. His will called for the property to be converted into a museum highlighting his work (Midcoast Villager). The foundation's decision to sell instead raises questions about why that plan did not come to fruition, though the foundation has not publicly detailed the reasons.
The Star of Hope Foundation will give US$200,000 to Vinalhaven from the proceeds of the lodge sale, according to the foundation's announcement (Midcoast Villager, Facebook).
The estate's history has been tangled in legal disputes. In September 2020, the Star of Hope reached an agreement with the Morgan Art Foundation — a organisation that had represented Indiana's work and had been locked in litigation with the artist's estate — to end ongoing legal battles. The two organisations said they would work together, and the Star of Hope stated it looked forward to its partnership in the market with the Morgan Art Foundation and to accelerating work on its mission (Artnet News; The Art Newspaper).
For Vinalhaven residents, the sale of a landmark building on the island's main street means a change in ownership of a property that has sat at the centre of the island's small downtown since Indiana bought it in the 1970s. The US$200,000 contribution to the community is an unusual gesture from an estate liquidation, and it ties the artist's legacy to the place where he lived and worked for nearly half a century.
The listings are live. A buyer will determine what comes next for the building that Indiana filled with his work and called home.
