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| Bar Harbor Casino Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Daniel Leland Jr. House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Daniel Leland Jr. House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...According to Robert Leland, father of Patti Leland of Trenton, in 1849 this house was moved to its present location at 945 Bar Harbor Road, Map 19 – Lot...6 from about a quarter of a mile closer to Mount Desert Island (probably near 1007 Bar Harbor Road, Map 15 – Lot 16)...The Bar Harbor 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... | ||
| Jesup Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Jesup Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - “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... File Attachment: Jesup Memorial Library.pdf …Desert Street City: Bar Harbor 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., …Bar Harbor Record, undated, 1911. The Jesup Memorial Library was dedicated on August 30, 1911. The Right Rev. | ||
| Porcupine Hotel Hotel Florence Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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 Bar Harbor hotels... | ||
| Musgrave Tea Tower Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Musgrave Tea Tower Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 50... | ||
| Duck Brook Motor Bridge Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Duck Brook Motor Bridge Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The largest bridge that you've probably never seen on Mount Desert Island is the Duck Brook Motor Road Bridge. Ironically, anyone who drives the Park Loop Road, starting from the Hulls Cove Visitor Center, travels over the bridge (located here), but few people see the bridge itself. That's too bad since it is by far the longest and tallest bridge in the park. In fact, it's the largest continuous concrete arch deck bridge in the eastern United States. At 402' long (not counting the 65' approaches on each side) and having a center arch span of 95', it dwarfs every carriage road bridge in the park, the longest being Amphitheater at 245' and the tallest being Duck Brook at 43' (yes, there are two Duck Brook bridges, one for people and bikes, and this one for cars). An architectural drawing of the bridge indicates a height of 100' from the top of the 30" high parapet guardwall to the water below. So how does the largest road-related structure in Acadia National Park go unnoticed? There are three reasons. First, from above you might not realize you are driving over a bridge because the roadway and shoulders look much like other portions of the loop road. If you happen to park at the turnout located southeast of the bridge, then walk atop the bridge and look over the side, you only get a glimpse of the three stone arches. To really see them, you have to hike down to the brook, but there is no trail and the terrain is dangerously steep. Second, the only view from below is along the narrow and busy stretch of Route 3 between Sonogee and the Holiday Inn. At 40 mph, you wouldn't see the bridge even if you knew the exact instant when and where to look. Finally, from below, the bridge is almost entirely obscured in summer by deciduous trees growing in the deep ravine that the bridge spans. To see this magnificent structure which was constructed from 1950 to 1953 using granite from Hall Quarry in Somesville, you have to seek it out at the right time of year. The Duck Brook Motor Road Bridge is truly a hidden architectural and historical gem. John D. Rockefeller purchased the land for the Paradise Hill Road where the bridge is located, donated the land to to the park, and was involved in planning the road as early as 1934, but World War II and subsequent funding shortages delayed the start of construction. As many as 75 men were on the job at one time with total labor estimated at 92,000 hours. Total cost of the structure was $366,000 making it the most expensive road-related structure in the park at the time of its completion. George Soules - November 2015 [show more] File Attachments: Duck Brook Motor Bridge.pdf …Brook Motor Bridge Name: Duck Brook Bridge What: Bridge Location: Spans Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road, 1 mile SE of Hulls Cove Visitor Center Town: Bar …Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot Numbers: Map: US GEO 1956 ANP - Duck Brook Bridges GPS (Global Positioning System) Latitude, Longitude: 44.399176, me0254data.pdf …DUCK BROOK BRIDGE Acadia National Park Roads & Bridges Spanning Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road Bar Harbor Vicinity Hancock County Maine WRITTEN HISTORICAL …LOCATION Spanning Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road, 1 mile SE of Hulls Cove Visitor Center, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor vicinity. …Bar Harbor, ME: Friends of Acadia, 1993. Newspaper Articles "Acadia's Stone Bridges Link Past and Future," Bar Harbor [ME] Times, 23 April 1987. …Bar Harbor, ME. Brown's Studio, | |
| St. Sylvia’s Catholic Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  St. Sylvia’s Catholic Church Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: St. Sylvia’s Catholic Church.pdf …Silvia" Address: 53 Kebo Street City: Bar Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 107 Lot 25 Map: C&S BH PLAN 1887 Date Founded: Circa 1879 Duration: …The new church, designed by Victor Hodgkins, still stands at 56 Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor. …"The second organization to secure for itself a separate meeting-house at Bar Harbor was the Catholic Church of St. Silvia. …The plan of building a Catholic church at Bar Harbor originated with Mr. DeGrasse Fox, who in 1879 offered a suitable lot on Kebo Street. | ||
| Camp Aim-Al Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Camp Aim-Al Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Land now owned by Acadia National Park. File Attachment: Camp Aim-Al.pdf …Location History Camp Aim-Al Address: Ocean Drive City: Bar Harbor - Later part of Acadia National Park GPS coordinates: N44 19.547' W068 11.158' …Harbor Times, September 12, 1928, p. 3. …acquired a copy of A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island, published by W.H. …Sherman, 11 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, Maine, c. 1905. Don told them that there was a photograph of the camp in one of the Sherman guides. | ||
| St. Saviour's Episcopal Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  St. Saviour's Episcopal Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The church has forty-two stained glass window, ten of which are original Tiffany stained-glass windows and a replacement for the 11th window, stolen from the sanctuary. File Attachment: St. Saviour's Episcopal Church.pdf …Desert Street) City: Bar Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 104 Lot 318 Map: BAR HARB/BH RES 1904.JPG NRHP: 95000729 Named for: French Jesuit Mission …Saviour s Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor, Maine" compiled by The Rev. Edwin A. …Saviour s Church in Bar Harbor, serving there from 1879 to 1899. | ||
| Egg Rock Light Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Egg Rock Light Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Egg Rock Light.pdf …Lighthouse - Light Station History Egg Rock Light State: Maine Town: Winter Harbor Year Established: 1875 Location: Between Bar Harbor and Winter Harbor …Benjamin Sawyer, (1817-1892) Seal Cove, Tremont, Maine, was postmarked Bar Harbor, March 7, 1892. The letter was written by Lewis F. | ||
| Jordan Pond Gate Lodge Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Jordan Pond Gate Lodge Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The two lodges were designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, a New York architect who had previously designed the Congregational Church in Seal Harbor... | ||
| Jackson Laboratory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Hamor Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Hamor Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Kennedy Cottage - Kenarden Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Kennedy Cottage - Kenarden Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Eden Hall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Eden Hall Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Malvern Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Malvern Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| West End Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| West End Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Rodick House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rodick House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Newport House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Newport House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
