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15328Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor
  • Reference
  • Structures, Civic, Community Center
  • 1907
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
10226The Spruce Bough For Sale
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • The Outlook Monthly Magazine
  • 1906
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 31 Journey's End Lane
Advertisement for Frank Judson Goodwin's Cottage - The Spruce Bough For Sale
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Advertisement for Frank Judson Goodwin's Cottage - The Spruce Bough For Sale
10227The Edgecliff For Sale or Rent
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • The Outlook Monthly Magazine
  • 1906
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 34 Norwood Road
Advertisement for Samuel Morse Downs' Cottage - The Edgecliff For Sale or Rent Advertisement appeared in "The Outlook" - A Weekly Newspaper and an Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 83, May 5 - August 25, 1906. Advertisement reads: "Edgecliff A Charming Estate on Somes Sound Opposite North East Harbor, Mount Desert Five acres heavily wooded with spruce and fir. Most comfortable house of eight rooms with hardwood floors and large open fireplaces. Piazza twelve feet wide. Best water privlege [Sic] on the Sound. Best of plumbing and lake water. Stable for two horses. The combination of mountains, sea, and islands presents a view of surpassing beauty. For sale or to rent for the season. Price for the season very reasonable. Address S.M. Downs, Bellevue Hotel, Boston, Mass."
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Advertisement for Samuel Morse Downs' Cottage - The Edgecliff For Sale or Rent Advertisement appeared in "The Outlook" - A Weekly Newspaper and an Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 83, May 5 - August 25, 1906. Advertisement reads: "Edgecliff A Charming Estate on Somes Sound Opposite North East Harbor, Mount Desert Five acres heavily wooded with spruce and fir. Most comfortable house of eight rooms with hardwood floors and large open fireplaces. Piazza twelve feet wide. Best water privlege [Sic] on the Sound. Best of plumbing and lake water. Stable for two horses. The combination of mountains, sea, and islands presents a view of surpassing beauty. For sale or to rent for the season. Price for the season very reasonable. Address S.M. Downs, Bellevue Hotel, Boston, Mass." [show more]
15601Bowdoin Cottage being built in Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Bar Harbor Record
  • 1902-07-16
Newspaper article about the Bowdoin Cottage, known as La Rochelle, when it was being constructed on West Street in Bar Harbor in 1902. A transcription of the article is also attached to this item.
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Newspaper article about the Bowdoin Cottage, known as La Rochelle, when it was being constructed on West Street in Bar Harbor in 1902. A transcription of the article is also attached to this item.
3024Famous Hotel's End - Rodick House
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1906
  • Bar Harbor
9400The Hotel Holmes and A.I. Holmes Store
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
  • 1904 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
The photograph shows the Hotel Holmes and part of the Holmes Store on the left. Postcard Details: Date: c.1909 Media: Real Photo Title: Holmes House, Southwest Harbor, ME. Subject: Holmes Store and Hotel Holmes Photographer: Unknown Publisher: Eastern Illustrating Co., Belfast, Maine Number: 28
Description:
The photograph shows the Hotel Holmes and part of the Holmes Store on the left. Postcard Details: Date: c.1909 Media: Real Photo Title: Holmes House, Southwest Harbor, ME. Subject: Holmes Store and Hotel Holmes Photographer: Unknown Publisher: Eastern Illustrating Co., Belfast, Maine Number: 28
9467View from Stanley House Dock, Manset, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Places, Shore
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • C.E. Cook, Bangor, Maine
  • 1905 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
The vessel with sails up, coming into the dock, is a Maine Sloop Boat. Hand written note says "Many thanks for the box will write to and Edith soon. Lovingly, Mrs. Emery"
Description:
The vessel with sails up, coming into the dock, is a Maine Sloop Boat. Hand written note says "Many thanks for the box will write to and Edith soon. Lovingly, Mrs. Emery"
7003Asticou Inn, Asticou, Mount Desert Island
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Sherman
  • 1909 PM
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
7018The Jordan Pond House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 1904
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Jordan Pond
6703Pemaquid Light
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Boston Post Card Co.
  • 1907
  • Pemaquid ME
7021Hard Wood Factory, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Factory, Sawmill Building
  • 1909 PM
Handwritten inscription says: "Please forgive me for not writing but will in a few days. Etta"
Description:
Handwritten inscription says: "Please forgive me for not writing but will in a few days. Etta"
7020State Street, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • J.A. Thompson
  • 1906 PM
6850Sabin Woolworth Colton Cottage, "Faraway," Greening Island
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • 1906
  • Southwest Harbor, Greening Island
Postcard has hand-written message "Aug 20, 1906 Mary Thanks for the card. When are you coming home? Yours with love L.V.M."
Description:
Postcard has hand-written message "Aug 20, 1906 Mary Thanks for the card. When are you coming home? Yours with love L.V.M."
6729Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • 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. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject."
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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. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject." [show more]
7005Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Community Center
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
7008Seal Harbor Congregational Church
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
6766Surf and Cliffs Near Portland Head Light
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Shore
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 c.
  • Portland ME
Made in Germany
Description:
Made in Germany
12503White Head, Me. Life Saving Station
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Other Structures, Life Saving Station
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1909 PM
  • Tenants Harbor ME
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
Description:
Printed in Frankfurt on Main, Germany
6727Malvern Hotel, Cottages, Kebo Street, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The American News Company, New York
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor
6231The Ocean House Hotel
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
This photograph shows the enlarged hotel. Postcard is dated 1908 and seems verified by the clothes of the people on the porch.
Description:
This photograph shows the enlarged hotel. Postcard is dated 1908 and seems verified by the clothes of the people on the porch.
6780The Claremont House
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 20 Claremont Road
6821The Southwest Harbor Congregational Church
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906
  • Southwest Harbor
6934St. Sauveur Hotel
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1907
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
6994Building of Arts, Eden
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Performing Arts, Theater
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
7022Public Library, Ellsworth, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Ellsworth ME
  • State Street