Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0063 The building was originally located in front of Pemetic High School, now Pemetic Elementary School, at 329 Main Street. It was moved across the street in 1938 to serve as a building to store fire trucks, town equipment and, initially, the school bus. The second floor, where the town office is now located, was used primarily for storage. The town office was located on the second floor of the Odd Fellows building on Main Street until 1982 when the second floor of the former school (building in this picture) was remodeled into a town office.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0063 The building was originally located in front of Pemetic High School, now Pemetic Elementary School, at 329 Main Street. It was moved across the street in 1938 to serve as a building to store fire trucks, town equipment and, initially, the school bus. The second floor, where the town office is now located, was used primarily for storage. The town office was located on the second floor of the Odd Fellows building on Main Street until 1982 when the second floor of the former school (building in this picture) was remodeled into a town office. [show more]
Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0081 This structure was moved to its current location in 1906 to make room for the construction of the Freeman Grammar School. Originally, it was just north of the present site on the location of what is now the Harbor House.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0081 This structure was moved to its current location in 1906 to make room for the construction of the Freeman Grammar School. Originally, it was just north of the present site on the location of what is now the Harbor House.
The building at the extreme left edge of this picture is St. John's Episcopal Church at 319 Main Street. Adelbert Alden Gilley built the house in the left rear of this photograph, now 12 Maple Lane. The Ladies Aid of the Congregational Church purchased it in 1914 for use as a parsonage. -Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 159 - 1938. The building second left, just visible behind the school, was built about 1905 and owned by Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Atherton. Peter T. Benson moved the buildings to a lot on Clark Point Road, now 57 Clark Point Road, in 1937 and sold them to Russell White. The town then purchased the Atherton lot to become part of the school lot and the site of the new [Pemetic] High School building of 1938. - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 159 - 1938. The house to the right rear next to the school, now 29 Clark Point Road, the Edwin Albert Lawler House. To the right of the Lawler House is a house built by William J. Tower for himself, now 38 Clark Point Road. Also visible is part of 30 Clark Point Road, also built by Mr. Tower, where he kept the post office for a number of years before selling it to E.S. Thurston when he became postmaster. - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 157 - 1938. After George Harmon bought the old wooden Southwest Harbor high school building in 1906 and moved it (see SWHPL 5680 for details), a new wooden high school was built on the schoolhouse lot, but further back from Main Street. This building later became Southwest Harbor's elementary school and is currently Harbor House. - 2007 Part of this building can be seen on the far right edge of this picture. Arthur T. Richardson was the architect and Henry Tracy the builder. R.M. Norwood built the additions.
Description: The building at the extreme left edge of this picture is St. John's Episcopal Church at 319 Main Street. Adelbert Alden Gilley built the house in the left rear of this photograph, now 12 Maple Lane. The Ladies Aid of the Congregational Church purchased it in 1914 for use as a parsonage. -Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 159 - 1938. The building second left, just visible behind the school, was built about 1905 and owned by Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Atherton. Peter T. Benson moved the buildings to a lot on Clark Point Road, now 57 Clark Point Road, in 1937 and sold them to Russell White. The town then purchased the Atherton lot to become part of the school lot and the site of the new [Pemetic] High School building of 1938. - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 159 - 1938. The house to the right rear next to the school, now 29 Clark Point Road, the Edwin Albert Lawler House. To the right of the Lawler House is a house built by William J. Tower for himself, now 38 Clark Point Road. Also visible is part of 30 Clark Point Road, also built by Mr. Tower, where he kept the post office for a number of years before selling it to E.S. Thurston when he became postmaster. - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 157 - 1938. After George Harmon bought the old wooden Southwest Harbor high school building in 1906 and moved it (see SWHPL 5680 for details), a new wooden high school was built on the schoolhouse lot, but further back from Main Street. This building later became Southwest Harbor's elementary school and is currently Harbor House. - 2007 Part of this building can be seen on the far right edge of this picture. Arthur T. Richardson was the architect and Henry Tracy the builder. R.M. Norwood built the additions. [show more]
Back Row: Gladys I. Higgins (1893-1972) - later Mrs. Jesse Ulmont Mayo and Mrs. Arthur Foss Whittier 5th Row - Left to Right: Marion F. Hodgdon (1895-1986) - later Mrs. Andrew Everett Bickford Gladys I. Gray (1892-bef 1979) - later Mrs. William Francis Grace M. Gray (1898-1994?) - later Mrs. Leslie D. Carter Carmen Alberta Harper (1894-1963) - later Mrs. Joseph Neal McIntyre Wilma O. Herrick (1893-) - later Mrs. Ernest Milton Curit 4th Row - Left to Right: Unknown Frank Dyer Frank Reuben Harper (1895-) John Francis Hodgdon (1895-1974) Henry David Bartlett (1893-1962) 3rd Row - Left to Right: Dana Ober Herrick (1895-1979) Evelyn Cole Lawrence W. Harper (1896-1963) Fred Eugene Butler (1896-1956) Julian Young Harper (1898-1971) 2nd Row - Left to Right: Esther Butler Paris E. Gray (1897-1979) Kenneth Lewis Hodgdon (1897-1971) Shirley V. Ober (1897-1963) Ada Butler Seth Allen Harper (1894-1977) Front Row - Left to Right: Isaac Edwin Reed (1900-1958) Lucy A. Reed (1896-1979) - later Mrs. Miles M. McIntire Albert Erastus Hodgdon (1900-1997) Hazel R. Reed (1902-1973) - later Mrs. Chester Johnson Iola Campbell (1900-1974) - later Mrs. Lester C. Barthelemy or Bartholomew Luella C. Butler (1898-1979) - later Mrs. Neal Lester Farrell and Mrs. Alden Arthur Kelley Clara Allen
Description: Back Row: Gladys I. Higgins (1893-1972) - later Mrs. Jesse Ulmont Mayo and Mrs. Arthur Foss Whittier 5th Row - Left to Right: Marion F. Hodgdon (1895-1986) - later Mrs. Andrew Everett Bickford Gladys I. Gray (1892-bef 1979) - later Mrs. William Francis Grace M. Gray (1898-1994?) - later Mrs. Leslie D. Carter Carmen Alberta Harper (1894-1963) - later Mrs. Joseph Neal McIntyre Wilma O. Herrick (1893-) - later Mrs. Ernest Milton Curit 4th Row - Left to Right: Unknown Frank Dyer Frank Reuben Harper (1895-) John Francis Hodgdon (1895-1974) Henry David Bartlett (1893-1962) 3rd Row - Left to Right: Dana Ober Herrick (1895-1979) Evelyn Cole Lawrence W. Harper (1896-1963) Fred Eugene Butler (1896-1956) Julian Young Harper (1898-1971) 2nd Row - Left to Right: Esther Butler Paris E. Gray (1897-1979) Kenneth Lewis Hodgdon (1897-1971) Shirley V. Ober (1897-1963) Ada Butler Seth Allen Harper (1894-1977) Front Row - Left to Right: Isaac Edwin Reed (1900-1958) Lucy A. Reed (1896-1979) - later Mrs. Miles M. McIntire Albert Erastus Hodgdon (1900-1997) Hazel R. Reed (1902-1973) - later Mrs. Chester Johnson Iola Campbell (1900-1974) - later Mrs. Lester C. Barthelemy or Bartholomew Luella C. Butler (1898-1979) - later Mrs. Neal Lester Farrell and Mrs. Alden Arthur Kelley Clara Allen [show more]
Back Row - Left to Right: Maybird Dolliver - Teacher - Mary Alice Morris (1876-1956) - Mrs. Stillman Stanley Dolliver Maude M. Candage (1888-1937) - later Mrs. Lester Lewis Dorrr Evelyn Frances Pomroy - later Mrs. Charles Edwin Hamblen Bertha Murphy (1887-1968) - later Mrs. George A. Neal Edna Sadie Lunt (1887-1975) - later Mrs. Arthur Lawton Julia L. Clark (1888) Lida J. Rumill (1889-1979) - later Mrs. Rudolph Gilley Ida May Kelley (1887-1980) - later Mrs. Leroy E. Sweeney Beatrice K. Lunt (1888-) Wilda D. Reed (1886-1953) - later Mrs. Leslie Elroy Hamblen Bernice Murphy (1886-1957) - later Mrs. Walter Hilton Hamblen Middle Row - Left to Right: Dora Maude Dow (1888-1948) Emma Almira Reed (1889- before 1992) - later Mrs. Ernest L. Smith Hallie Murphy (1891-1983) - later Mrs. Raymond Percival Somes Ada "Addie" B. Pomroy (1890-1945) - later Mrs. Pearl Edwin Murphy Eva F. Springer (1893-1975) - later Mrs. Jasper Norwood and Mrs. Oscar Tolman Mildred "Millie" Carver Reed (1890-1979) - later Mrs. Benjamin John Gott Evelyn L. Lunt (1892-1955) - later Mrs. Kenneth P. Farley William "Bill" Augustus Clark (1891-1919) Donald E. Robbins (1888-) Mabel L. Gott (1892-) Gertrude Kane - Teacher - Gertrude L. Rumill (1875-1963) - Mrs. Jason Perley Kane Florence "Flossie" Day or Dane Front Row - Left to Right: Seth Frank Stetson (1887-1918) Eugene W. Gordius (1888-1964) Carrie M. Thurston (1893-1979) - later Mrs. Raymond Oswell Staples Lucy Leona Reed (1892-1919) - later Mrs. Benjamin John Gott Julia A. Norwood (1891-1974) - later Mrs. James Everett Parker Herbert S. Reed (1892-1918) Zulma Emma Norwood (1894-1992) later Mrs. Albert Erastus Hodgdon Basil E. Reed (1893-1905) Esther Louise Gott (1902-1994) - later Mrs. Leon C. Butler Elmer Dalton Reed (1893-1992) Carl B. Pomroy (1893-1953) - twin of Cush B. Pomroy (1893-1963) Harold Lester Thurston (1888-) Roy F. Eaton (1890-1947) Hollis Gardner Reed (1888-1967)
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Maybird Dolliver - Teacher - Mary Alice Morris (1876-1956) - Mrs. Stillman Stanley Dolliver Maude M. Candage (1888-1937) - later Mrs. Lester Lewis Dorrr Evelyn Frances Pomroy - later Mrs. Charles Edwin Hamblen Bertha Murphy (1887-1968) - later Mrs. George A. Neal Edna Sadie Lunt (1887-1975) - later Mrs. Arthur Lawton Julia L. Clark (1888) Lida J. Rumill (1889-1979) - later Mrs. Rudolph Gilley Ida May Kelley (1887-1980) - later Mrs. Leroy E. Sweeney Beatrice K. Lunt (1888-) Wilda D. Reed (1886-1953) - later Mrs. Leslie Elroy Hamblen Bernice Murphy (1886-1957) - later Mrs. Walter Hilton Hamblen Middle Row - Left to Right: Dora Maude Dow (1888-1948) Emma Almira Reed (1889- before 1992) - later Mrs. Ernest L. Smith Hallie Murphy (1891-1983) - later Mrs. Raymond Percival Somes Ada "Addie" B. Pomroy (1890-1945) - later Mrs. Pearl Edwin Murphy Eva F. Springer (1893-1975) - later Mrs. Jasper Norwood and Mrs. Oscar Tolman Mildred "Millie" Carver Reed (1890-1979) - later Mrs. Benjamin John Gott Evelyn L. Lunt (1892-1955) - later Mrs. Kenneth P. Farley William "Bill" Augustus Clark (1891-1919) Donald E. Robbins (1888-) Mabel L. Gott (1892-) Gertrude Kane - Teacher - Gertrude L. Rumill (1875-1963) - Mrs. Jason Perley Kane Florence "Flossie" Day or Dane Front Row - Left to Right: Seth Frank Stetson (1887-1918) Eugene W. Gordius (1888-1964) Carrie M. Thurston (1893-1979) - later Mrs. Raymond Oswell Staples Lucy Leona Reed (1892-1919) - later Mrs. Benjamin John Gott Julia A. Norwood (1891-1974) - later Mrs. James Everett Parker Herbert S. Reed (1892-1918) Zulma Emma Norwood (1894-1992) later Mrs. Albert Erastus Hodgdon Basil E. Reed (1893-1905) Esther Louise Gott (1902-1994) - later Mrs. Leon C. Butler Elmer Dalton Reed (1893-1992) Carl B. Pomroy (1893-1953) - twin of Cush B. Pomroy (1893-1963) Harold Lester Thurston (1888-) Roy F. Eaton (1890-1947) Hollis Gardner Reed (1888-1967) [show more]
Back Row - Left to Right: Unknown Teacher Third Row - Left to Right: Unknown Hope Norwood (1904-1987) - Mrs. Frank Cecil Bannister Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) - below teacher Unknown Marion Clark Unknown First & Second Rows Unknown
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Unknown Teacher Third Row - Left to Right: Unknown Hope Norwood (1904-1987) - Mrs. Frank Cecil Bannister Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) - below teacher Unknown Marion Clark Unknown First & Second Rows Unknown
Front Row - Left to Right: - Unknown girl - Unknown girl - Henry Thomas Conary (1903-1951) - Unknown boy - Howard M. Leonard (1905-1974) - Unknown girl - Marguerite Hopkins (1905-1965) - later Mrs. Harry G. Norwood Second Row - Left to Right: - Unknown boy - Carl Fulton Dolliver (1903-1979) - Stanwood Hart King (1905-1996) - Virginia J. Ramsdell (1905-1981) - later Mrs. Milton Edwin Krebs - Lawrence Newman (1906-2002) Third Row - Left to Right: - J. Sewell Hopkins Jr. (1903-1972) - Unknown boy - Unknown boy - Nettie L. Norwood (1903-1980) - later Mrs. James E. Smiley, then Mrs. Manuel Silva Back Row - Left to Right: - Unknown boy - Iva Adele Walls (1886-1964) - Teacher - later Mrs. Walter J. Clark Jr. - Unknown boy
Description: Front Row - Left to Right: - Unknown girl - Unknown girl - Henry Thomas Conary (1903-1951) - Unknown boy - Howard M. Leonard (1905-1974) - Unknown girl - Marguerite Hopkins (1905-1965) - later Mrs. Harry G. Norwood Second Row - Left to Right: - Unknown boy - Carl Fulton Dolliver (1903-1979) - Stanwood Hart King (1905-1996) - Virginia J. Ramsdell (1905-1981) - later Mrs. Milton Edwin Krebs - Lawrence Newman (1906-2002) Third Row - Left to Right: - J. Sewell Hopkins Jr. (1903-1972) - Unknown boy - Unknown boy - Nettie L. Norwood (1903-1980) - later Mrs. James E. Smiley, then Mrs. Manuel Silva Back Row - Left to Right: - Unknown boy - Iva Adele Walls (1886-1964) - Teacher - later Mrs. Walter J. Clark Jr. - Unknown boy [show more]