Description: The house on the right in the photograph, across the street from the store, was at 19 Earl's Way on the corner of Shore Road - MAP 12 - LOT 64.
Description: The original William Henry Ward Store on the Manset shore. This photograph was taken before the expansion of the wharf by William H. Ward.
"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.
Description: "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]
Dr. Lemont’s first Drug Store was on the second floor of the large barn of Deacon Henry Higgins Clark’s original house. The house was by that time the Island House Hotel before it was greatly enlarged in 1885.
Description: Dr. Lemont’s first Drug Store was on the second floor of the large barn of Deacon Henry Higgins Clark’s original house. The house was by that time the Island House Hotel before it was greatly enlarged in 1885.
"The Cheese House was part of the Cheese House chain which had 18 cheese-shaped locations in New England. Apparently, there are only … two buildings left. The stores were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were constructed of wood with a cut-out wedge for the entrance and windows. They are 9' tall and 40' in diameter. In the late 1970s, the chain disbanded due to financial problems." - “Giant Food: Misc. Food” by Debra Jane Seltzer, Roadside Architecture.com, Accessed online 11/12/13; http://www.agilitynut.com/food/other.html The postcards for all the Cheeses Houses appear to be the same photograph. The store in Trenton was owned by Alex A. Albin and Bernice E. Albin. It closed in 1984 and the building has been for sale almost all the time since. Collectors of architectural oddities are always looking for such buildings, originally built as cheese wheels, hot dogs, clam boxes or loaves of bread.
Description: "The Cheese House was part of the Cheese House chain which had 18 cheese-shaped locations in New England. Apparently, there are only … two buildings left. The stores were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were constructed of wood with a cut-out wedge for the entrance and windows. They are 9' tall and 40' in diameter. In the late 1970s, the chain disbanded due to financial problems." - “Giant Food: Misc. Food” by Debra Jane Seltzer, Roadside Architecture.com, Accessed online 11/12/13; http://www.agilitynut.com/food/other.html The postcards for all the Cheeses Houses appear to be the same photograph. The store in Trenton was owned by Alex A. Albin and Bernice E. Albin. It closed in 1984 and the building has been for sale almost all the time since. Collectors of architectural oddities are always looking for such buildings, originally built as cheese wheels, hot dogs, clam boxes or loaves of bread. [show more]
"Clark the Printer" was owned by Walter J. Clark Jr. (1882-1942) "An ingenious ability that has enabled him to surmount all obstacles has brought Walter J. Clark, Jr., to the position of one of the leaders in the business life of Ellsworth. Mr. Clark operates the modern and efficient printing shop at No. 360 Water Street, conducting the business under the name of Clark the Printer. His advance has been steady and sure ever since the early days in the business when the first printing press he owned was a crude, wooden affair made by himself. Walter J. Clark, Jr., received his education in the local public schools and after completing his schooling entered the printing business independently in 1903. His creative ability and determination to succeed were his greatest assets. He carried on his trade with the aid of his personally constructed press until he prospered sufficiently to afford the purchase of a small Kelsey Press, which he installed and used for about a year. Business increased rapidly and he bought a small Liberty Press and later added a Gordon Press continuing to add new equipment and machinery to accommodate the ever increasing demands for his work…" – “Maine Biographies” by Harrie B. Coe, Volume I, published by Clearfield."
Description: "Clark the Printer" was owned by Walter J. Clark Jr. (1882-1942) "An ingenious ability that has enabled him to surmount all obstacles has brought Walter J. Clark, Jr., to the position of one of the leaders in the business life of Ellsworth. Mr. Clark operates the modern and efficient printing shop at No. 360 Water Street, conducting the business under the name of Clark the Printer. His advance has been steady and sure ever since the early days in the business when the first printing press he owned was a crude, wooden affair made by himself. Walter J. Clark, Jr., received his education in the local public schools and after completing his schooling entered the printing business independently in 1903. His creative ability and determination to succeed were his greatest assets. He carried on his trade with the aid of his personally constructed press until he prospered sufficiently to afford the purchase of a small Kelsey Press, which he installed and used for about a year. Business increased rapidly and he bought a small Liberty Press and later added a Gordon Press continuing to add new equipment and machinery to accommodate the ever increasing demands for his work…" – “Maine Biographies” by Harrie B. Coe, Volume I, published by Clearfield." [show more]
William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps
Description: William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps [show more]
"W.H. Ward keeps a good supply of groceries, confectionery, boots and shoes and also does a large ice business. In the back of the store is the only billiard hall on the south side as Manset is called." - Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895
Description: "W.H. Ward keeps a good supply of groceries, confectionery, boots and shoes and also does a large ice business. In the back of the store is the only billiard hall on the south side as Manset is called." - Bar Harbor Record, June 15, 1895