Description: The Rock End Hotel, Morris Cottage, and draw bridge (Northeast Harbor Fleet, Gilpatrick Cove), Northeast Harbor, Maine. To the right is Edgecove (Morris cottage). To the far left is The Wedge.
Description: Color Postal card showing Southwest aspect of the hotel. Shows 1950's and early 1960's automobiles. 1962 De Soto helps establish date of photograph. Kimball House: L. E. Kimball, President, J. B. Kelley, Resident Manager.
Description: “At the head of Northeast Harbor, about a mile from the Kimball House, on a high terrace looking out to sea, stand the Roberts House and Savage’s boarding-house and Harbor Cottages, a charming sequestered neighborhood, haunted through the livelong summer by bright tennis-suits and vivacious exiles from the cities.” – “Chisholm’s Mount-Desert Guide-Book” by Moses Foster Sweetser, p. 65-6, published by Chisholm Brothers, 1888 William Roberts built the Roberts House in Northeast Harbor in 1883. In 1893 the Roberts House, with accommodations for 40 guests, was run by H.D. Roberts. Horace D. Roberts was born to William and Deborah (Robbins) Roberts on March 18, 1834 in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Horace married Catharine Gilpatrick Stanley (1835-1918), daughter of William and Hannah (Manchester) Stanley in Southwest Harbor. Horace D. Roberts died on December 7, 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts. [show more]