Description: This is one of six folders housed in drawer 9. It is labeled "A. Murray Young" and the notation identifies the contents as "1st floor plan".
Description: There is one folder in drawer 12 . It is entitled, "Cassatt House, Bar Harbor". The notation also includes the following: #1 blueprints on linen in coded linen fabric; and #2 blueprints. The blueprints are rolled up on the left of the drawer, that is, the part which does not fit into the folder. Another folder with this accession # exists in drawer 13. The second folder has the same # because the tracing and kraft it contains are also of the Cassatt House A large pencil on tracing of a cornice. [show more]
Description: Note from a client to Fred Savage ca 1922 relating to plans for a home in Redlands Ca. Original drawings are in Northeast Harbor Library collection 2012 exhibit text: Home, Mary Pearl Evens Cramp Redlands, CA, ca 1921 Ink and ink wash on vellum. The Gerrish Collection, Northeast Harbor Library These sketches show Savage's development of a more sophisticated rendering style and facility to work in different styles. Two elevation studies for the same owner and the same floor plan are renditions of the Spanish Colonial Revival style typical of California. One study utilizes long horizontal roof lines, while the other emphasizes towers and dormers which produce a less horizontal composition [show more]
Description: This is a flat map folded in half. The title of the map is "The Zoning Map of the Town of Mt. Desert, Hancock County Maine". The zoning districts were by Maurice H. Burr, Northeast Harbor, Maine. The full date is February 5, 1957. The map key denotes two districts: A and B. The map measures 12 and 1/2 by 20 inches.
Description: 1. Set of original and preliminary drawings and details for High Seas. 23 Blue Prints 2 Survey topo on Linen 39 Pencil on tracing paper 1 Pier drawing on linen Set of plan and elevation of a small house for this client. 2.This is a mounted architectural drawing of the mantel in the dining room of High Seas in Bar Harbor. It is labeled the Residence of Dr. Rudolph E. Brunnow. 3. Three pencil on paper details of a mantel . It is labeled the Residence of Dr. Rudolph E. Brunnow. 2012 exhibit text: High Seas Cottage for Dr. Rudolph Brunnow Bar Harbor, ME, 1911 Pencil on tracing paper Detailed drawings in many cases were developed by Savage for interior installations of mantels and cabinet work. These beautifully rendered sketches show a desire to achieve fine carvings and turnings for his elegant interiors in this high style colonial revival cottage. [show more]
Description: This large, folded road map of Mount Desert Island is dated 1930. It was compiled by Waldron Bates, Howard L. Rand, and Herbert Jaques. Size 25.5" x 32.75"
Description: Vol. XIV 2013 "The Journey Issue": A Celebration of the Chebacco Boat, Bill Horner, M.D. The Bar Harbor Express: A Most Elegant Travel Option, Brook Ewing Minner Getting Here from There: Steamboat Travel to Mount Desert Island, David W. Granston III The Journey of the Ferry Bluenose, Carroll Fernald Far from Home: The Spring of 1864, Tim Garrity From Houses to Horsepower: Mount Desert Island's Ten-Year War for the Automobile, Bill Horner, M.D. The Wrect of the Tay, Catherine Schmitt Dream Realized--Dream Lost: Hancock County/Bar Harbor Airport 1934-1984, Nathaniel R. Fenton [show more]
Description: This book has a golden, tan hardcover . The title is "Forsythia Intrigued by the Stars". The author was identified as Azerlea P. Barton. However, on the title page the P. Barton is crossed out and the name Pray-Somes is written in black ink. The book is published by Exposition Press, Hicksville, New York. The copyright date is 1976.
Description: Colored copy of watercolor painting by Maggie Johnston that she did in summer and fall of 2013 when Lewis H. Story was docked at Somesville. She was one of the plein air painters. Dimensions: 11" x 14" Image #2 is note from donor to Bill Horner, Pres. of MDI Historical Society acknowledging donation.
Description: This is one of six folders in drawer 9. It is the only one dedicated to Greencourt. The name Charlotte Pendleton is written on the folder. There are blueprints and architectural drawings in the folder.
Description: Vol. XV 2014 Maine's Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan by Raney Bench Ku Klux Klan on Mount Desert Island; opposition to immigrants and Catholics Visionary Science of the "Harvard Barbarians"by Catherine Schmitt Champlain Society, Charles Eliot Going Against the Tide: The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Cliff Rich built their boat; Gotts Island neighbors The War at Home: Copperheads Down East, 1861-1865 by Tim Garrity Opponents to Civil War Three Buildings: The Quiet Iconoclasm of Robert W. Patterson by William N. Thorndike, Jr. Architect Robert W. Patterson Superintendent Dorr and the Mountain Naming Controversy by Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Belle Smallidge Knowles, Before Her Time by Brooke Ewing Minner Growing Up Gay in Down East Maine by Victor Stanley Island Outlaws by Luanne Yetter (smuggling on Mount Desert Island) [show more]
Description: 3 Drawing each including plan, elevations and section for a small house. Includes one drawing, ink on linen, one blueprint and one drawing, pencil on kraft paper. Size: 18 in by 24 in.