1 - 5 of 5 results
You searched for: Place: SeawallSubject: StructuresSubject: Restaurant
Refine Your Search
Refine Your Search
Subject
Type
Place
Date
Tags
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
11442Lobsterland in a Storm
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1963
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 563 Seawall Road
The original Seawall Dining Room is visible at left.
Description:
The original Seawall Dining Room is visible at left.
14830Lobsterland Restaurant
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
Lobsterland was a restaurant and lobster pound at Seawall that burned on August 28, 1965. The building that became “Lobsterland” was bought by David B. Benson from Vera Rich (Vera A. (Beal) Rich (1918-1996), Mrs. Maurice Stanley Rich) who had used it as a playhouse when she took care of children. The original address of the building was 411 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. The house on the lot was built by Maurice and Vera Rich. It later became the Fiddlers Green Restaurant. Lobsterland Leveled The Bar Harbor Times, August, 1965 by LaRue Spiker "... Lobsterland, a restaurant and lobster pound at Seawall, was leveled by fire August 28. David Benson, owner of the Lobsterland building, stated that the structure and its equipment were a total loss but partially insured. The cause has not been determined. A number of people reported the fire. Two boys are thought to have been the first to spot it. They said they first noticed fire inside the building; a few seconds later there was a muffled explosion and the whole roof was ablaze. Another person first noticed the fire concentrated at the far end of the dining room where the heater was located. Another person thought the fire was first heaviest in the center of the building where the trash cans were kept, raising the possibility that a live cigarette butt had been deposited in one of them. The property had been leased by Jesse Forbis [Jesse Lee Forbis (1915-1982)] this summer for operation of the restaurant and pound. Mr. Benson stated that he has no plans for re-building this fall but may do so next spring."
Description:
Lobsterland was a restaurant and lobster pound at Seawall that burned on August 28, 1965. The building that became “Lobsterland” was bought by David B. Benson from Vera Rich (Vera A. (Beal) Rich (1918-1996), Mrs. Maurice Stanley Rich) who had used it as a playhouse when she took care of children. The original address of the building was 411 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. The house on the lot was built by Maurice and Vera Rich. It later became the Fiddlers Green Restaurant. Lobsterland Leveled The Bar Harbor Times, August, 1965 by LaRue Spiker "... Lobsterland, a restaurant and lobster pound at Seawall, was leveled by fire August 28. David Benson, owner of the Lobsterland building, stated that the structure and its equipment were a total loss but partially insured. The cause has not been determined. A number of people reported the fire. Two boys are thought to have been the first to spot it. They said they first noticed fire inside the building; a few seconds later there was a muffled explosion and the whole roof was ablaze. Another person first noticed the fire concentrated at the far end of the dining room where the heater was located. Another person thought the fire was first heaviest in the center of the building where the trash cans were kept, raising the possibility that a live cigarette butt had been deposited in one of them. The property had been leased by Jesse Forbis [Jesse Lee Forbis (1915-1982)] this summer for operation of the restaurant and pound. Mr. Benson stated that he has no plans for re-building this fall but may do so next spring." [show more]
10681The Seawall Dining Room
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1975 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 560 Seawall Road
11868Aerial View of the Seawall Dining Room
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Phillips - Augustus Dewey Phillips (1898-1975)
  • Augustus D. Phillips & Son, Northeast Harbor
  • 1963 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 560 Seawall Road
The small white building across the road, on the shore, was David B. Benson's "Lobsterland" Restaurant.
Description:
The small white building across the road, on the shore, was David B. Benson's "Lobsterland" Restaurant.
11436David Brazer Benson's Lobsterland Restaurant - Playhouse Moving on to the Seawall Site
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1961-06
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 563 Seawall Road