Description: Black and white photograph of Burnmouth, a summer cottage located on Eden Street, Bar Harbor. Burnmouth was designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson and built by contractor John E. Clark. The original owner was W.B. Walley. The house was located on Eden Street and was torn down in 1979. This photograph shows the land-side of the house, and was taken in the off-season, as the vines do not have any leaves and many of the windows and doors are covered with shutters and boards. Pencil writing on the back of this photograph identifies this cottage as "Bournemouth" which is misspelled. Also written in this same hand is: Mrs. Archibald Harrison (1904) Mrs. Morris McCormick (1969) [show more]
Description: Black and white photograph of a Shore Cottage, a summer cottage built for Samuel E. Lyon along Eden Street in Bar Harbor. The cottage was built in 1884 and was based on plans by William Ralph Emerson. The house was nearly identical to Brook End, which Emerson designed for Samuel Lyon in 1881. This house was occupied by John DeKoven, who called it Baymeath. When the DeKovens moved to Hulls Cove, they took the name with them. The house was then known as Shore Cottage, and later it was called Uferheim and owned by Uriel Crocker. It was built by John E. Clark and razed around 1939. [show more]
Description: "The Island House, owned by Deacon Henry H. Clark, was the first summer hotel on Mount Desert Island. Deacon Clark began the hotel business by taking into his hospitable home the first occasional tourists who came to the island for a short stay. He gradually enlarged his house until in 1885 it was entirely remodeled and did a thriving business, employing many of the townspeople during the summer season." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 174 - 1938. [show more]
Description: Three parchment tracings of 3 level property listed as Cochran Cottage. Two blueprints of same property listed E. H. (Edmund H.) Kimball. Also written on these plans in blue ink is Pierrepont. House was razed in 2021.
Description: Water color renderings of cottage for Miss L. Belle Smallidge (1st librarian of Northeast Harbor Library) by Fred Savage. Conserved by Nina Rayer, ca. 2006. If published/reproduced, must acknowledge: given by Great Harbor Maritime Museum. See also Item 2567
Description: Rough parchment drawing of grounds of "The Colonial Cottage" on Manchester Road showing site of tennis court. Adjacent property of D. Scull.
Description: Sketch of floor plan for the "Brooks cottage" on South Shore Road, owned by John Brooks, and later house of Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick, "Petite Plaisance".
Description: Watercolor image is of "Sunniholme", the John Falt Cottage. The floor plans are of the Frelinghuysen Cottage, "Garden Court" (28 Harborside Road).