Description: The view is from the Pemetic Hotel (The Castle) and, on the Southwest Harbor side, shows the Clarence Clark (Ellsbert/Heilaka) house left foreground. The long roofed building in the center, next to the harbor, a bowling alley after World War II - currently the Hamilton Marine building. The building on the right with the striped roof is the firm of Clark & Parker/Manset Marine Supply Co./ and the Oceanarium since 1979. The Oceanarium is the oldest commercial building on Clark Point - the only one extant except the Clarence Clark House. The Manset shore is in the background with discernible landmarks, including the Manset Union Church, the Stanley wharf, the early Stanley House and numerous commercial buildings on the Shore Road. There are about 30 schooners visible in the harbor and tied up at the wharves. - Identifications by Meredith Hutchins - 2006 [show more]
Description: The house on the shore behind “Theoline,” between the schooner and the sailboat, is the Samuel Walker Mead Cottage, H.W. Foote’s “House of Four Winds” at 30 Connor Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Tax Map 11 – Lot 9 – MHPC #405-0009.
Description: The Claremont Hotel can be seen in the background on the left of the boat. This photograph was taken from Connor's Point in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Description: Child in boat alongside Amberjack: Benson – William Valentine Benson (1917-1997) Back Row – Left to Right: Frances Alice Kellor (1873-1952) Dreier - Mary Elizabeth Dreier (1875-1963) Marion Dickerman (1890-1983) Antonia Hatvary Middle Row – Left to Right: Cook - Nancy Clyde Cook (1884-1962) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1914-1988) John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916-1981) Front Row – Left to Right: Roosevelt - Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt (1884-1962) Roosevelt - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) James Roosevelt II (1907-1991) [show more]
Description: Fitz Henry Lane painted one of the earliest views of Southwest Harbor, and seems to have studied the shore carefully. The view shows a lumber schooner loading its long cargo through a port in the bow of the vessel. The white house immediately to the left of the vessel probably shows an early version of the Seth Higgins Clark House. The white house at the center of the shore is the Nathan Clark II House. The white building at the far left is Deacon Henry Higgins Clark's Island House Hotel, early in its career, before it was expanded into several stories with a mansard roof. Clark descendants, and their houses, are still in Southwest Harbor. William Howe Witherle (1821–1906) accompanied Lane on his trip around Mount Desert Island and recorded many of their adventures in his diary. On August 21 he wrote, "… George, Joe & myself took breakfast this morning at the Island House – and a fine one it was – price 25 cts – Mr. Lane took 2 sketches here…” The sketches referred to were of the shore and harbor, not the hotel. See: Witherle, William Howe. William Witherle Diary (unpublished manuscript) (August 16–21, 1852). Personal diary in the collection of the Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00060-1a-1h). [show more]
Description: The foremost boat is loaded with big open barrels - they look like half barrels - to store fish as they were caught. The long poles on each side may have been to hold the handlines away from the rails.