Over the course of the last six decades, those regularly traveling along Route 26 in Maine have become familiar with a classic throwback motel as they pass through the small town of Woodstock.
It’s known as the Mollyockett Motel, a classic motor lodge is located in Bryant Pond, a village in Woodstock that’s been conservative broadcast icon Tucker Carlson’s famous Maine haunt for decades.
Carlson often does his eponymous podcast out of the western Maine town.
He has vacationed there for more than four decades, owns a rustic cabin on Christopher Lake, and in 2019 purchased a former town garage next to Whitman Memorial Library for $30,000, converting it into a private broadcasting studio.
Carlson has publicly referred to Bryant Pond as “his favorite place in the world” and has stated his intent to retire there permanently.
The Mollyockett, just down the road, will go up for auction July 22, according to i95Rocks.com.
“From the outside, the Mollyrockett looks like a time capsule,” says the outlet’s Joey Dionne. “The 20-room motel is a throwback to the days when motor lodges sprawled across the country.”
The Mollyockett was put up for sale three years ago by its owners, Tim and Frank Buck, who sold to a Utah man hoping to use the property as a retirement investment. It didn’t work out.
Attempts to sell the longstanding motel over the last year or so were unsuccessful and now it will head to the auction block.
The motel is currently in foreclosure.
Built in 1968, the 20-room Mollyockett can be expanded to 30 rooms.
An indoor pool added to the property in 1980 and then a restaurant and function room sometime around 2007.
