Description: ..."Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning...National Bank of BarHarbor...The second prize, a free, round-trip on BarHarbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias...The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The BarHarbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13...
Description: ...On the left side is the BarHarbor Banking & Trust Company - Southwest Harbor Branch...On the right side (to the right of the Post Office box is The United States Post Office at Southwest Harbor..."The Salisbury building which now houses the local branch of the BarHarbor Banking and Trust Company, the post office and a plumbing shop, was built by...Salisbury in 1933-4." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S...
Description: ...On the steps of the Library in Southwest Harbor. The photograph is by W.H...Ballard and was originally published in The BarHarbor Times Oct. 1, 1942...The caption under it read as follows: "LAST STORY HOUR AT SOUTHWEST " - Seventy children who have been attending the weekly story hour at the Southwest Harbor...
Description: ...Robie Milton Norwood, Jr. (1872-1951) 15 - 16 - Edith Evans – Librarian, Jessup Library, BarHarbor 17 - Fernald – Louise Lawton (Fernald) Goulding...." - BarHarbor Times, Thursday, May 22, 1947, page 10 - Mrs. Seth Thornton, Corr., Southwest Harbor, Telephone 66...Evans, of BarHarbor, Mrs. Cynthia Stanley, Manset; Edith V. Vaughan, Frances W. Weeks, Gertrude F. Durham, Belfast: Charlotte Norwood, Bernard, Mrs...Miss Shaw pronounced the occasion one of the most successful held in small communities." - BarHarbor Times, Thursday, May 29, 1947, page 1...
Description: ...car) Gordon & White's 1950 Ford Tow Truck Unknown wood stake truck c. 1947 Ford c. 1946 Dodge 1949 Ford 1950 Chevrolet - company vehicle for a Bar...Harbor Chevrolet dealer c. 1939 Pontiac c. 1931 Ford - spoke wheel just visible at right front of photograph...
Description: ...Nell and Seth Thornton are shown leaving Southwest Harbor for their home in Houlton, Maine in a beautiful 1910 Model T Ford automobile...The Model T may belong to Seth or the other man who may possibly be driving them to BarHarbor or Ellsworth to board the train for Houlton...If the Ford belonged to the Thorntons the trip from Southwest Harbor to Houlton would have taken them at least 11 hours by automobile in 1912...The Carroll family celebrated the Fourth of July every year with a picnic at their old family home, The Mountain House, on Carroll hill in Southwest Harbor...
Description: ...Seth Sprague Thornton, is leaving Southwest Harbor at Steamboat Wharf for her home in Houlton, Maine...Nell would have travelled by steamship from SWH by way of BarHarbor to meet the Maine Central Railroad at Hancock Point...
Description: ...Newspaper article about Gott's Store in Southwest Harbor, Maine on its 75 year aniversary...
File Attachment: Gott’s Store celebrates 75 years - Mount Desert Islander.pdf …Hammond lumber Company BarHarbor Blue Hill Bucksport Ellsworth It was just another day at the family-owned island institution opened by …There were residents of Bass Harbor, but they chose to open the store in Southwest Harbor. …The reason it s here , rather than in Bass Harbor was because Bass Harbor was a dry town , they couldn t sell beer, said Gott. …Mom walked over here , we lived in Bass Harbor, probably two miles away.
File Attachment: Robert Malcolm Carter House.pdf …House History Robert Malcolm Carter House Address: 27 Forest Avenue City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot Number: Map 6 - Lot 560 Map: Build …in 1931 [T-146]; Worcester Ben Conley Worcester Sr. (1882-1978) "Robert Carter built his house in 1931." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor …The BarHarbor Times, October 21, 1931. The same issue of the newspaper contains the obituary of Robert s father-in-law, Nahum Millard Norwood.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0836
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0836.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Narrative Description The Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor, commonly known as the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, is a rectangular …Clark died on September 19, 1902 at Southwest Harbor, Maine. …BarHarbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages :5-57, 159,162. 10.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0080
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0080.pdf …Southwest Harbor separated from Tremont in 1905. …Conveyance of property from Southwest Harbor School District to Town of Southwest Harbor. Marshall, Jean. …"Southwest Harbor School-Pemetic and Harbor House." MS summarizing deed searches. Southwest Harbor Town Office. Thornton, Mrs. Seth S. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of [Southwest] Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0001
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0001.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Southwest Harbor Public Library, Hancock County, Maine The Southwest Harbor Public Library …BarHarbor Record. 16 October 1895. Identifies E.B . Homer as architect of new Public Library. Street, George E. Mount Desert, A History. Samuel A. …BarHarbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages 111-118; 149. 10.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0024
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0024.pdf …Stratton kept an office in BarHarbor and had a mixed practice, which included a number of summer cottages. …He was also the architect of the BarHarbor Historical Society building. …The BarHarbor Record also provided the name of Robie M. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0019.pdf …The name of the architect of the cottage, who was mentioned in the BarHarbor Record of March 22, 1888, P. H. …The floor has been replaced. 5 BarHarbor Record. 6. 15. 1895. …In 1895, when the BarHarbor Record published its description of the attractions of Southwest Harbor, Dr. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
"Cooper Family", Mrs. Marian Cooper Rogers Cottage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
swhpl-3025
Type:
Document, Report
Subject:
Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
Creator:
Thompson - Deborah Thompson
Date:
1998
Place:
Southwest Harbor
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0028
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0028.pdf …Other reports appeared in the BarHarbor Record in 1895 (which supplied the name of the architect, James W. …The final published mention of the cottage dates from the BarHarbor Record in 1938, which reports on the remodeling by Mrs. Marion C. …Harbor Record 6.15. 1895. 11. 8.1895. 1.13.1 938. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0033
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0033.pdf …Harbor Record reported in May, 1929 on Mrs. …(The 1895 article in the BarHarbor Record listed in Section 9 below is a general survey of landmark buildings at Southwest Harbor.) …BarHarbor Record. 6. 15. 1895. 5.15. 1929. Ellsworth, Maine. Registry of Deeds. Book 411 Page 288. 9.23.1904. Henry Clark to Robet1 Kaighn. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0009
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0009.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Norwood, according to the BarHarbor Record of 30 January 1907. Robie M. Norwood (1873-1955) was a very talented builder-architect. …Harbor Record 10.3 1. 1906. 1.30.1907. …[Nell Carroll Thornton] Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0003
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0003.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …This cottage is referred to as a bungalow in the BarHarbor Record in December, 1930. …Scott "Bungalow," Hancock County, Maine Major Bibliographic References BarHarbor Record 12.24.1930. Ellsworth, Maine. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing Co.
Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0030
File Attachment: MHPC 405-0030.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …BarHarbor: V.F. …See The Redbook, Directory and Handbook, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somesville, BarHarbor. Southwest Harbor and Adjacent Islands, 2000, C.C. …BarHarbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988, Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition, Page 169. 10.