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Higgins Sawmill Saw Mill on the Mill Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Description: The sawmill burned on July 4, 1933. | ||
Somes House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Somes House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "Later [Abraham Somes] built a substantial frame house on the site of the Somes House and a part of that house is embodied in the present hotel. Some of the rooms at the back remain almost as they were at first. The house was built as a one-story building and later the walls were raised. Since then there have been many alterations and additions. George A. Somes finally inherited the property, developed the hotel business and built the two cottages toward the shore. His widow now owns it and conducts the hotel." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 270-271. “When George A. Somes inherited the [Somes House], he expanded the family inn by constructing two large additions, one attached at the left and the other freestanding to the right, giving the hotel a capacity of 150 guests. Noted visitors included Louis Comfort Tiffany, Alfred Vanderbilt, Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Pres. William Howard Taft, and Mary Cassatt. Known for its chicken and lobster dinners, the Somes House operated into the 1950s with rates of $5 to $10 a day." - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 27. [show more] | ||
Somesville School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Somesville School Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In 2017, the school building was occupied by condos. | ||
Judge Smith's Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Judge Smith's Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "The public library stands on the site where a building owned by A. C Fernald and used as an undertaker's shop and for the post-office was burned by lightning in 1891 with considerable loss in money as well as property. The land is owned by Mrs. George A. Somes and is leased to the library association, who built the present library in 1895-6." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 265. [show more] | ||
Village of Somesville Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Village of Somesville Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Village of Somesville i on the Registry of Historic Places as the Somesville Historic District #75000092. | ||
The Mount Desert House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Mount Desert House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
Somes Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Somes Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
Fernald's Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Fernald's Store Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
Abel's Lobster Pound Comerest Lobster Pound Henry R. Abel & Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Description: Henry R. Abel moved his lobster pound from Tremont to Mt. Desert in 1938. Abel’s Lobster Pound still exists in 2017 where Henry built it in 1938 at the edge of Somes Sound on Route 198. | ||
John Allen Somes House Otto Clyde Nutting House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Description: "The house on the shore of the Sound, now [1938] occupied by Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Nutting as a summer home was built in 1929 by J. A. Somes whose heirs now own it. This house is on the site of the Somes shipyard." – “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 264. John Allen Somes (1872-1930) was the great-great grandson of Abraham Somes II (1732-1819). [show more] |