Description: ...“Summer tourists who enter Mount Desert by the way of South-west Harbor are liable to receive very unfavorable impressions of this beautiful island...By crossing the harbor to the Ocean House, the view of the mountains may indeed be regained, yet the prospect from the east side is tame.” - Rambles in...
File Attachment: Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor.pdf …Business History Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Address: 184 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 4 Lot 35-1 …the night at Deacon Clark's and taking an all-day ride by team to BarHarbor where a resident of that town gave them hospitable treatment for a few days …Desert in the early 1850s next to Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …when the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar
File Attachment: SWH High School - Freeman Grammar School.pdf …School History Freeman Grammar School Southwest Harbor High School Harbor House Address: 329 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot …Stanley" "In 1906 the Southwest Harbor schoolhouse was sold to George Harmon of BarHarbor who bought the adjoining lot to the south, moved the building …When the high school at Southwest Harbor, later the Harbor House building, was first constructed it was smaller than it appears today. …Harbor school building.
Description: ...In 2017 this was the site of the BarHarbor Bank and Trust Building...
File Attachment: Danforth Marcyes House.pdf …George Arthur Neal House Address: 314 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map: Map 6 Lot 45 First Owner: Marcyes - Danforth Pond Marcyes …He was in charge of the Custom House here for a long time, moving to BarHarbor when his duties there were over. His son-in-law, James J. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 147 - 1938.
Description: ...According to Robert Leland, father of Patti Leland of Trenton, in 1849 this house was moved to its present location at 945 BarHarbor Road, Map 19 – Lot...6 from about a quarter of a mile closer to Mount Desert Island (probably near 1007 BarHarbor Road, Map 15 – Lot 16)...The BarHarbor Road has been widened so the house now lies closer to the road, although it is more difficult to see as trees have grown up around it...
Description: ...Higgin's father, Fenelon Higgins of BarHarbor is foreman of the work." Vol...I - History of Southwest Harbor – Oct. 16, 1921 to Jan. 9, 1924, #354, Pg. 94, August 8, 1923...
File Attachment: Howe D. Higgins House.pdf …House History Howe Dwain Higgins House ME SWH Clark Point Road - 086 Address: 86 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 175.
Description: ...inn overlooking the sea, tradition has a capital T" from The Globe and Mail - September 21, 1994 "Claremont spruces up for another century" from The Bar...Harbor Times - August 18, 1994 "Visitor's guide to a lush Maine isle" from The New York Sunday Times -August 9, 1989 A write up by Charles C...
File Attachments: 2068-001.pdf …CLAREMONT HOTEL IN MAINE At inn overlooking the sea 9 tradition has a capital T I Southwest Harbor, Me. …- T was searingly hot when I ar rived at the Claremont Hotel, a venerable hostelry overlooking Southwest Harbor, Me. …Another afternoon, we drove around Acadia National Park, then on to BarHarbor to stroll around its boutiques and galleries, which are housed in old, renovated …Box 137-South west Harbor, Maine, 04679; tele phone (207) 244-5036. MATURE TRAVELLER - - - - - / - i
2068-002.pdf …The BarHarbor Times August 18, 1994 Page A15 Claremont spruces up for another century by Julia Hinckley - The road into Southwest Harbor is awash …Page A16 The BarHarbor Times August 18, 1994 CLAREMONT from page A15 enormous dump fees. …The recent boom of bed & breakfasts in Southwest Harbor, as well as an increase in competition all over the island , made it necessary for the Claremont …CLAREMON 1 Page A17 The BarHarbor Times August 18, 1994 Owner Gertrude McCue from page A16 of glittering blue ocean flecked with the white of sails
2068-003.pdf …At the airport in Bangor, and at BarHarbor Airport in V Trenton , there are Avis, Hertz and S Budget car rentals and taxis. …|available at the Chambers of Com Hi , i merce in BarHarbor North least Harbor and Southwest Harbor, o 5V and the Park Visitor s Center at Hull 's cove …In BarHarbor, the BarHarbor Inn (207 288-3351 or 800-248-3351 ; $80 to $150 in high season ) looks out over Frenchman s Bay. …For a half day trip try Down East Whale Watch, BarHarbor (288-3322), also $25. It leaves at 8: 30 A.M. or 2:15 P.M.
2068-004.pdf …Calhoun PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS MARK SZELOG "Southwest Harbor's most memorable landmark , however, is what 1 would argue is Maine's best hotel, the vintage
2068-005.pdf …If it s sunny, we rent bicycles in BarHarbor and head for Acadia s magnifi cent carriage paths, or take the mail ferry from Northeast Harbor to tiny …Perhaps an Bangor, the closest real city an hour aperitif at BarHarbor s Opera House , northwest , or along the Park Loop Restaurant and Listening Room …The Acadia park en trance was only a short drive away , as was BarHarbor , Leaving Acadia is always traumatic. …For information on the park, write to the Visitor s Center , Box 177, BarHarbor , Maine 04609, or call 207 2884932.
2068-006.pdf …Regal comfort winM ftp CLAREMONT HOTEL THE CLAREMONT HOTEL in Southwest Harbor gives guests a taste of what summering in Maine meant during the first …The Claremont Hotel is approximately 155 miles from Portland in Southwest Harbor. Call 1-800-244-5036, or go online at www.theclaremonthotel.com. …SOUTHWEST HARBOR he view from the gentle hilltop where the Clare mont Hotel rises in its 19 th century glory is nothing less than magnif icent. …This single spot on the water s edge in Southwest Harbor is one of the first in the nation to greet each new day s rising sun .
Description: ...." - “The Story of BarHarbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives...
File Attachment: Jesup Memorial Library.pdf …Desert Street City: BarHarbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 104 Lot 433 NRHP: 91000323 Date Original Library Founded: 1875 Benefactor: Maria Van Antwerp …in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - The Story of Bar …Harbor An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community, by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., …BarHarbor Record, undated, 1911. The Jesup Memorial Library was dedicated on August 30, 1911. The Right Rev.
Description: ...The First Masonic Hall, now 353 Main Street, Southwest Harbor - at the corner of Clark Point Road, - The Hall, built c. 1877 as Tremont Hall, was sold...the building, raised it, and rebuilt the first and second floors to achieve the building shown in all the pictures as the First Masonic Hall – See the Bar...Harbor Times, April 20, 1927, p. 7...These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount...
File Attachment: Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library.pdf …Spear McRae (1842-1916) The first Bass Harbor Library was begun by Vesta E. (Spear) McRae, Mrs. …The new library and free reading room at Bass Harbor supplies a long-felt want in the community. Last autumn Mrs. G.M. …- The BarHarbor Record, January 9, 1901. …In 1909 the Bass Harbor Library in Bernard, Mrs. V. E.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0836
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0836.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Narrative Description The Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor, commonly known as the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, is a rectangular …Clark died on September 19, 1902 at Southwest Harbor, Maine. …BarHarbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages :5-57, 159,162. 10.