Description: Describes the removal of the George Ripley Fuller House, located at the current Wendell Gilley Museum site (the corner of Rte. 102 and Herrick Rd., Southwest Harbor) prior to the museum's construction.
Description: Sketches, site plan, foundation plan, floor plans, elevations, details, schedules, electrical, mechanical, framing plans, plumbing, fireplace details, museum display cabinet plans Roc's Comments: Wendell told us he wanted the museum to have his workshop in the hopes it would inspire others to carve. After he died his son chose to auction the items in his shop off to the highest bidder. The audience knew of Wendells wishes and no one bid except the curator of the Museum who acquired all of the items for a reasonable price. I was then asked to design a room to display his shop and a workspace for carvers and a small auditorium. We had not realized how popular the place would become and needed space for expansion. I did this work from my home studio in Philadelphia and John DeFazio a fellow employee at Venturi, Scott Brown helped with the drawings. [show more]
Description: "... it was 1955 before the library built its second addition. This was a room for the youngest children done in memory of Grace Simmons, who had rebound countless worn library books for the library."
Description: Back Row - Standing Left to Right: Mary Ann (Carroll) Minctons Mae (Sabonis) Carroll, Mrs. Charles Bradley Carroll James Richard Carroll (1939-) John Harriman Carroll (1937-) Rachel (Carroll) Phalen Richard Thornton Carroll Seated - Left to Right: Ruth C. (Kittredge) Dolliver, Mrs. Morris A. Dolliver (1907-2004) Mary (Harriman) Carroll, Mrs. Richard Thornton Carroll Rebecca Carroll (Clark) Foote, Mrs. Arthur C. Foote (1912-1993) Arthur C. Foote (1911-1999) Melissa (Farnham) Carroll, Mrs. Philip Tracy Carroll [show more]
Description: In 1955, Walter Cabot Paine gave funds to the Southwest Harbor Public Library for the Francis Hamabe murals in the newly refurbished Children’s Room. Shows the Children's Room before the 1984 remodelling with the Francis Hamabe mural, painted in 1955.