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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
3500Jordan Pond House
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Acadia National Park
3613Brown Mountain Gate Lodge
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Lodge
  • Acadia National Park
One of two gate lodges (the other being the Jordan Pond Gate Lodge) built for John D. Rockefeller Jr. to serve as entry points to his system of carriage roads and to guard against the entry of automobiles. The Brown Mountain Gate Lodge is the larger of the two, with a small complex consisting of a gate house, carriage house, and a care taker's house. The carriage road no longer passes through the grand gate. The two lodges were designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a New York architect who had previously designed the Congregational Church in Seal Harbor. Atterbury shared Rockefeller's dedication to philanthropy and was one of the few architects to study and use light and ventilation in tenement buildings. These lodges allowed Atterbury to design for the aesthetics of a grand estate and the purpose of housing the working class families that cared for the carriage roads. The gate lodges were subsequently given to Acadia National Park along with the system of carriage roads. In the years since, they have served as housing for park employees. While they are no longer necessary to guard against the entry of automobiles, they serve as a reminder of this long tradition and as architectural gems within the Park.
Description:
One of two gate lodges (the other being the Jordan Pond Gate Lodge) built for John D. Rockefeller Jr. to serve as entry points to his system of carriage roads and to guard against the entry of automobiles. The Brown Mountain Gate Lodge is the larger of the two, with a small complex consisting of a gate house, carriage house, and a care taker's house. The carriage road no longer passes through the grand gate. The two lodges were designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a New York architect who had previously designed the Congregational Church in Seal Harbor. Atterbury shared Rockefeller's dedication to philanthropy and was one of the few architects to study and use light and ventilation in tenement buildings. These lodges allowed Atterbury to design for the aesthetics of a grand estate and the purpose of housing the working class families that cared for the carriage roads. The gate lodges were subsequently given to Acadia National Park along with the system of carriage roads. In the years since, they have served as housing for park employees. While they are no longer necessary to guard against the entry of automobiles, they serve as a reminder of this long tradition and as architectural gems within the Park. [show more]
11731Brown Mountain Gate Lodge, Acadia National Park
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Lodge
  • The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1932 c.
  • Acadia National Park
9318Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Jordan Pond House, Seal Harbor, Maine
  • 1948
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
7253Advertisement for Jordan Pond House
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1918
  • Acadia National Park
10134Advertisement for Jordan Pond House
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1909
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
12149Jordan Pond House from the Lawn
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1955-09-08
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond House
12151The Birch Bark Room at the Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1946-07
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond House
The Birch Bark Room was destroyed during the Jordan Pond House fire in 1979.
Description:
The Birch Bark Room was destroyed during the Jordan Pond House fire in 1979.
11567Jordan Pond House Dining Room
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Knaut - Paul A. Knaut, Jr.
  • Bromley & Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1967
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
7203Acadia National Park - Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Knaut - Paul A. Knaut, Jr.
  • Bromley & Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
12497Tables on the Tea Lawn at Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Murphy - Steve R. Murphy
  • 1977
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
13660Interior of the Jordan Pond House
  • Set
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • Acadia National Park
  • Jordan Pond
13315Green Mountain House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
5535Advertisement for the Green Mountain House
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
6281The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1904
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
6323Green Mountain House - New and Open for Business.
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1883
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Francis Hector Clergue built the Green Mountain House in 1883, adjacent to the old Mountain House on the summit of Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain, to, serve patrons of his Green Mountain Railway, a cog railroad, which chugged up the mountain from Eagle Lake. Both the old and new structures burned to the ground on August 2, 1884. “1884, August 2. The burning of a hotel on Green Mountain, Mount Desert, in the evening, was plainly seen from Belfast, at a distance of fifty miles.” – “History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine: From Its First Settlement in 1770 to 1875” by Joseph Williamson, p. 241 – 1913. Frank Clergue immediately replaced this structure with a smaller hotel and his business continued as noted in the review below. "...A Good Hotel Is At The Summit, where persons desiring it can find pleasant accomodations for a longer or shorter stay. Round trip tickets can be had of the company's agent, on Main Street, Bar Harbor. F.H. Clergue, President." - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham - 1887.
Description:
Francis Hector Clergue built the Green Mountain House in 1883, adjacent to the old Mountain House on the summit of Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain, to, serve patrons of his Green Mountain Railway, a cog railroad, which chugged up the mountain from Eagle Lake. Both the old and new structures burned to the ground on August 2, 1884. “1884, August 2. The burning of a hotel on Green Mountain, Mount Desert, in the evening, was plainly seen from Belfast, at a distance of fifty miles.” – “History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine: From Its First Settlement in 1770 to 1875” by Joseph Williamson, p. 241 – 1913. Frank Clergue immediately replaced this structure with a smaller hotel and his business continued as noted in the review below. "...A Good Hotel Is At The Summit, where persons desiring it can find pleasant accomodations for a longer or shorter stay. Round trip tickets can be had of the company's agent, on Main Street, Bar Harbor. F.H. Clergue, President." - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham - 1887. [show more]
6758The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1915 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
7018The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1904
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
5662Daniel Webster Brewer's Mountain House on Green Mountain
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914)
  • 1870 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Taken later than the view shown in Item 5663, this view shows a little greenery grown up around the small hotel perched on granite. The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain. "Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging. During the 1870's as many as 3,000 visitors patronized the place each summer." - Steam to the Summit: The Green Mountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005. This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The Green Mountain House, when the Green Mountain Railway was built in 1883.
Description:
Taken later than the view shown in Item 5663, this view shows a little greenery grown up around the small hotel perched on granite. The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain. "Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging. During the 1870's as many as 3,000 visitors patronized the place each summer." - Steam to the Summit: The Green Mountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005. This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The Green Mountain House, when the Green Mountain Railway was built in 1883. [show more]
5663Daniel Webster Brewer's Mountain House on Green Mountain
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • 1870 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
This view shows the small hotel perched on the bare granite summit of the mountain. The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain. "Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging. During the 1870's as many as 3,000 visitors patronized the place each summer." - Steam to the Summit: The Green Mountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005. This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The Green Mountain House, when the Green Mountain Railway was built in 1883.
Description:
This view shows the small hotel perched on the bare granite summit of the mountain. The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain. "Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging. During the 1870's as many as 3,000 visitors patronized the place each summer." - Steam to the Summit: The Green Mountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005. This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The Green Mountain House, when the Green Mountain Railway was built in 1883. [show more]
16215Green Mountain House, Mt. Desert, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
3614Jordan Pond Gate Lodge
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  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Lodge
  • Bar Harbor
One of two gate lodges (the other being the Brown Mountain Gate Lodge) built for John D. Rockefeller Jr. to serve as entry points to his system of carriage roads and to guard against the entry of automobiles. They were built in 1931-1932. The Jordan Pond Gate Lodge is located just south of Jordan Pond on the Loop Road. It is the smaller of the two lodges. The two lodges were designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a New York architect who had previously designed the Congregational Church in Seal Harbor. Atterbury shared Rockefeller's dedication to philanthropy and was one of the few architects to study and use light and ventilation in tenement buildings. These lodges allowed Atterbury to design for the aesthetics of a grand estate and the purpose of housing the working class families that cared for the carriage roads. While the exteriors appear castle-like, the interiors are modest and were clearly designed with the needs of the residents in mind. The gate lodges were subsequently given to Acadia National Park along with the system of carriage roads. In the years since, they have served as housing for park employees. While they are no longer necessary to guard against the entry of automobiles, they serve as a reminder of this long tradition and as architectural gems within the Park.
Description:
One of two gate lodges (the other being the Brown Mountain Gate Lodge) built for John D. Rockefeller Jr. to serve as entry points to his system of carriage roads and to guard against the entry of automobiles. They were built in 1931-1932. The Jordan Pond Gate Lodge is located just south of Jordan Pond on the Loop Road. It is the smaller of the two lodges. The two lodges were designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a New York architect who had previously designed the Congregational Church in Seal Harbor. Atterbury shared Rockefeller's dedication to philanthropy and was one of the few architects to study and use light and ventilation in tenement buildings. These lodges allowed Atterbury to design for the aesthetics of a grand estate and the purpose of housing the working class families that cared for the carriage roads. While the exteriors appear castle-like, the interiors are modest and were clearly designed with the needs of the residents in mind. The gate lodges were subsequently given to Acadia National Park along with the system of carriage roads. In the years since, they have served as housing for park employees. While they are no longer necessary to guard against the entry of automobiles, they serve as a reminder of this long tradition and as architectural gems within the Park. [show more]
13027Porcupine Hotel
Hotel Florence
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  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels.
Porcupine Hotel
Hotel Florence
Description:
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. [show more]
13256Malvern Hotel
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
  • 80 Mt. Desert Street
13285West End Hotel
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  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor