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| Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: In 1940 Southwest Harbor Motor Co. was the only AAA filling station in Southwest Harbor. Their phone number was 51-2. The brick building was converted to offices to rent in 1986-1987. The U.S. Post Office opened in the building on June 2, 1987. Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) attended school in the elementary school on the present ellipse (behind the Gilley Plumbing building on the left of this photograph) before it was moved across the street to become a fire station and now [2011] the police station/town office. When the bank was housed at the Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Ralph would take his penny bank there to be unlocked and have the money deposited in his bank account. The lady in the bank would show him the big safe where is money would be kept. – Ralph Warren Stanley 01/17/11 Marion E. Newman (1890-1976), Mrs. Frederick Walter Wescott at the time, owned a yellow Stutz Bearcat that was destroyed in the fire. Marion was known for having invested in Coca Cola stock and holding on to it when others thought it worthless and sold their stock. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 03/31/14 [show more] | ||
| Fish on the Wharf at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1945 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Fish on the Wharf at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1945 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Men handle a load of fish at the wharf in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white |
| Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The photograph shows Gilley Plumbing Co. to the left of Moore's Garage, and an early location of the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company in the right portion of the building. | |
| Southwest Motor Inn Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Motor Inn Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Five men unload fish from a dory in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white | |
| Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Unloading Fish from a Dory Negative (1) Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Three men unload fish from a dory in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white | |
| The Gangplank Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Gangplank Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Freeman's Wharf Farnsworth Fish Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times | ||
| A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Central Filling Station - Tydol Service Station on Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Central Filling Station - Tydol Service Station on Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "Ped" Sargent's house is just visible to the rear of the gasoline station. The filling station was located in the space occupied by the Post Office parking lot in 2017. |
| Addison Packing Company and Camps at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company and Camps at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Village Wash Tub and Joey's Place in a Blizzard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Village Wash Tub and Joey's Place in a Blizzard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| The Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Claremont Hotel is a historic hotel on Claremont Road in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Built in 1883, the main hotel building is one of the only 19th-century hotels to survive on Mount Desert Island. “In 1883, Capt. Jesse Pease and his wife, Grace Clark Pease, hired Edward Glover to build a four-story hotel. The Claremont Hotel opened in June 1884.” - The Ellsworth American – October 24, 2002. "The Claremont Hotel was built in 1883-4 by Capt. Jesse H. Pease and was opened to guests in the summer of '84. After the death of Capt. Pease in 1900, his wife successfully conducted the hotel for some seasons and then sold it to Dr. J.D. Phillips, who, with his son. Lawrence D. Phillips, now conducts it as a summer hostlery. Some years after acquiring it [circa 1911] Dr. Phillips purchased the Pemetic Hotel or "The Castle" as it was sometimes called, a building which Deacon Clark erected about 1878 as a rooming house in connection with his summer hotel. This stood in the woods across the road and east of the Island Cottage. It was moved to the Claremont lot and made a part of the hotel. Dr. Phillips has greatly enlarged and improved the hotel during his ownership and it has always been a popular place, commanding as it does a splendid view of Somes Sound and the harbor, with the hills in the background. The fiftieth anniversary of the hotel was observed in 1934 with interesting excercises." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 168 - 1938. The main building of the Claremont was built in 1883 by Jesse Pease, a retired sea captain, and was one of the first large hotels to be built on Mount Desert Island. It is a 3-1/2 story wood frame structure, finished in clapboards, with a cross-gabled hip roof and a stone foundation. The main (west-facing) facade is seven bays wide, with a simple port-cochere near the south end providing entrance to the building. A single-story porch wraps around the south and east facades (the latter facing Somes Sound). From the eastern facade a broad lawn extends down to the waterfront, where there is a boathouse. The interior has been modernized, but with attention to maintaining original Victorian features. On March 29, 1978 the Claremont Hotel was listed in the National Register of Historic Places - #78000162. [show more] | ||
| Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory A.J. Lawler Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory A.J. Lawler Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Lawton Block Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lawton Block Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Park Theater, Southwest Harbor Mayo Picture Theater Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| William Lawton, Jr. House - Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room & Candy Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Lawton, Jr. House - Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room & Candy Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Addison Packing Company and the Robert Ash House at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company and the Robert Ash House at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The house in the front of the photograph was the Robert Ash house. | ||
| Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Freeman's Store and Carroll's Drug Store, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Freeman's Store and Carroll's Drug Store, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The tower at the top left of the photograph housed the fire whistle behind Gilley Plumbing building on the left. The fire truck was kept in a small building beside the whistle in a corner of the present [2010] Pemetic School playground. This was previously site of Moore's Garage Co. and is the site of the Post Office building today [2017]. "The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carries on the business." The automobiles Left to Right: 1938 Oldsmobile 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan [show more] | |
| Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore Feeding Chickens Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Cuz Cafe After it Burned Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cuz Cafe After it Burned Southwest Harbor Public Library |