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12968Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing
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  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Bar Harbor
12992The Ovens
Cathedral Rock
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  • Places
  • Bar Harbor
The Ovens
Cathedral Rock
13020Bar Harbor Casino
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  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor
13021A. Bird Cough Store
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  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Bar Harbor
"A. Bird Cough [Adoniram Bird Cough] has opened a most attractive store at 26 Cottage Street. The store is stocked with a fine line of groceries and the usual vegetable lines." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A. Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south side of Cottage Street, a site occupied by Cadillac Mt. Sports in 2013.
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"A. Bird Cough [Adoniram Bird Cough] has opened a most attractive store at 26 Cottage Street. The store is stocked with a fine line of groceries and the usual vegetable lines." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A. Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south side of Cottage Street, a site occupied by Cadillac Mt. Sports in 2013. [show more]
13023Kennedy Cottage - Kenarden
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  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Bar Harbor
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
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“…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]
13042Robin Hood Park
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  • Bar Harbor
13162Musgrave Tea Tower
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  • Structures, Tower
  • Bar Harbor
  • 30 Atlantic Ave
A landmark along the Shore Path was the Musgrave Tea Tower. In 1881, New York banker Thomas Musgrave built Edgemere, a Shingle-style cottage designed by William R. Emerson. Five years later he added a second cottage, Mare Vista, to his property. Musgrave's tower contained a second-floor tearoom and an attached bowling alley and dance hall." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 50. The Musgrave Tea Tower was built by Thomas Bateson Musgrave (1831-1903) and his wife, Frances 'Fannie' Eleanor (Jones) Musgrave. Archivists researching the life of the Musgraves embark upon a sea of stories combining opulence, litigation and controversy.
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A landmark along the Shore Path was the Musgrave Tea Tower. In 1881, New York banker Thomas Musgrave built Edgemere, a Shingle-style cottage designed by William R. Emerson. Five years later he added a second cottage, Mare Vista, to his property. Musgrave's tower contained a second-floor tearoom and an attached bowling alley and dance hall." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 50. The Musgrave Tea Tower was built by Thomas Bateson Musgrave (1831-1903) and his wife, Frances 'Fannie' Eleanor (Jones) Musgrave. Archivists researching the life of the Musgraves embark upon a sea of stories combining opulence, litigation and controversy. [show more]
13163Eden Hall
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  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Bar Harbor
  • 30 Atlantic Ave
13203Balance Rock
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  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
13204Bar Harbor
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  • Places, Town
  • Bar Harbor
13214Bar Harbor Shore Path
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  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
13256Malvern Hotel
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  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
  • 80 Mt. Desert Street
9307Mt. Desert Island Hospital
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Institutional, Health Facility, Hospital
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Bar Harbor
9314Bathing Beach and Shore Club, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Shore
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Bar Harbor
9316Jesup Memorial Library and Y.W.C.A., Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Bar Harbor
12076Passenger Excursion Boat Liberty at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Boat
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • 1935 c.
  • Bar Harbor
11900Schooners Natalie Todd and Janet May at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Nietz - Marjorie Nietz
  • 1994 PM
  • Bar Harbor
6998Bar Harbor - Emery's Black and White Cottages
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Tourist Cottage
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • Bar Harbor
9310Bar Harbor from Green Mountain
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • Bar Harbor
12233Frances E. Norwood
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Bradley - Henry Lee Bradley (1875-1940)
  • Bar Harbor
6124U.S. Navy Battleships at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Bar Harbor
"Every year the North Atlantic Squadron visited Bar Harbor, at first under Admiral Gherardi, who had two sons the age of my sister and myself. We spent much time, at their invitation, on the ships or on excursions in the ships’ barges or launches…" - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, “Old Bar Harbor Days” chapter by Marian L. Peabody, Downeast Enterprise Incorporated, Camden, Maine, 1969, p. 239.
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"Every year the North Atlantic Squadron visited Bar Harbor, at first under Admiral Gherardi, who had two sons the age of my sister and myself. We spent much time, at their invitation, on the ships or on excursions in the ships’ barges or launches…" - "Only in Maine: Selections from Down East Magazine," edited by Duane Doolittle, foreword by John Gould, “Old Bar Harbor Days” chapter by Marian L. Peabody, Downeast Enterprise Incorporated, Camden, Maine, 1969, p. 239. [show more]
6125U.S. Navy Battleship at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate Negative
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Neal - George Arthur Neal (1872-1939)
  • 1900 c.
  • Bar Harbor
Porcupine Islands are in the background
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Porcupine Islands are in the background
6999Bluenose I at the Bar Harbor - Yarmouth Ferry Terminal
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Knaut - Paul A. Knaut, Jr.
  • Bromley & Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
  • Bar Harbor
10154Newport House, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Bar Harbor