Description: "Osmond Harper built his house in 1915. Joseph Moore had a store and house near the site of this house.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 204
Description: "The Spahr house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Lee Spahr of Haverford, Pa., and built for them by R. M. Norwood in 1932, is on a site where formerly two summer hotels have stood, both being destroyed by fire. The first one was built by Sans Stanley about 1875 and was very popular as a summer hotel and patronized by many Harvard professors. It was burned July 10, 1884. Mr. Stanley built another and larger hotel on the same site and this was burned March 18, 1927. A few years later the land was sold to Mr. Spahr, who also owns one of the small cottages nearby which is used as a guest house." -- “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 192 – 193 [show more]
Description: "Jonathan Stuart [Sic] built his house in 1935-6, almost all with his own hands." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 200 - 1938. The house belonged to James Willis (1919-2006) at the time this photograph was taken. "Jonathan Stewart has sold his house in Seawall and will soon build in Southwest Harbor, where he has purchased land." - The Bar Harbor Times, June 12, 1947 [show more]
Description: "The Stillman S. Dolliver house was built in the winter of 1883-4 by W. C. Higgins, for Mrs. Alice Morris. Mr. Dolliver built his carpenter shop to the south of the house and also the bungalow for his son, Morris A. Dolliver; this last in 1931. This lot of land was purchased from Joseph King." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 199.