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Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Helfrich - Helfrich, G. F
  • O'Neil - Gladys O'Neil
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Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue...Many relaxed at Bar Harbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats...Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost Bar Harbor...Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful...
Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Brechlin - Earl Brechlin
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...Together, the pictures and text evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of Bar Harbor, with all the accoutrements of the rich and famous robber barons who summered...the fabulous grand hotels; people in period dress in leisure pursuits; and the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1947, as well as views of the town and harbor...
Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Bryan - John M. Bryan
  • Cheek - Richard Cheek
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...The stream of tourists that began traveling to the island after the Civil War prompted a building boom of cottages, hotels, and various buildings in Bar...Harbor and other towns in the vicinity...