File Attachment: Bar Harbors Great Cottages-uncompressed.PDF …Thirty years before the coming of the millionaire cottagers in the 187Os-8Os, BarHarbor was discovered by artists of the Hudson River school …Stotesbury's BarHarbor home, Wingwood House," (upper right and below). …But from the 1890s the other showcase yachts riding at anchor in BarHarbor on, with real estate booming and with an income tax yet waters. …By the late 1920s, BarHarbor s period of platinum pleasures slowly began to decline.
Description: Floor plans, basement plan, floor plan existing conditions, life safety code, wall section, space usage, floor plan and framing, sketches, drawings
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
Description: Postcard from 1917 featuring a photograph of the Fabbri Cottage and a newspaper clipping from January 24, 1918 [year written on clipping incorrect] describing the recent fire that destroyed the home. Black and White
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.
File Attachment: Bar Harbos Vanished Temple To The Arts-uncompressed.pdf …A far cry from such mock grandeur though classically grand indeed was the Building of Arts in BarHarbor. …Harbor summers. …Described as the greatest affair of its kind in BarHarbor history, the concert was noted even in the society columns of the New York Times. …Within thirty years, however, what was to have been an integral part of BarHarbor s cultural life went into gradual decline.
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: ...." - “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: ...Hotel Florence and Village Green, BarHarbor, ME 72. Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, ME 73. BarHarbor Airport, Trenton, ME (A, D. Phillips) 74...Boat Shop at Bass Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine 85. BarHarbor and Porcupines from Cadillac Mt. 86. BarHarbor and mountains 87...Webster's Cafe, BarHarbor Rd., Trenton, Maine (1949) 100. Greetings from BarHarbor 101. Steamer Norumbega, BarHarbor, Maine 102...Maplecroft Cabins - Route 3, BarHarbor, Maine 118. Bay Meadow Bungalows - BarHarbor, Maine Updated August 5th, 2023...
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: ...." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 200 - 1938..."Jonathan Stewart has sold his house in Seawall and will soon build in Southwest Harbor, where he has purchased land." - The BarHarbor Times, June 12,...
Description: ...bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar...Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F...Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor...and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the BarHarbor hotels...