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| Bar Harbor Casino Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Bar Harbor - Yarmouth Ferry Terminal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Harbor View Motel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Harbor View Motel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ..."Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679, On ocean front - twelve modern, soundproof motel units - continental breakfasts in season - four housekeeping...“Soon Announcing… The Opening of New Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor” - Advertisement, Bar Harbor Times, April 22, 1954... | |||
| Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...“Summer tourists who enter Mount Desert by the way of South-west Harbor are liable to receive very unfavorable impressions of this beautiful island...By crossing the harbor to the Ocean House, the view of the mountains may indeed be regained, yet the prospect from the east side is tame.” - Rambles in... File Attachment: Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor.pdf …Business History Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Address: 184 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 4 Lot 35-1 …the night at Deacon Clark's and taking an all-day ride by team to Bar Harbor where a resident of that town gave them hospitable treatment for a few days …Desert in the early 1850s next to Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …when the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar | ||
| Southwest Harbor High School Freeman Grammar School Harbor House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  File Attachment: SWH High School - Freeman Grammar School.pdf …School History Freeman Grammar School Southwest Harbor High School Harbor House Address: 329 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot …Stanley" "In 1906 the Southwest Harbor schoolhouse was sold to George Harmon of Bar Harbor who bought the adjoining lot to the south, moved the building …When the high school at Southwest Harbor, later the Harbor House building, was first constructed it was smaller than it appears today. …Harbor school building. | ||
| George A. Neal House James Lawton House Danforth Marcyes House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building... File Attachment: Danforth Marcyes House.pdf …George Arthur Neal House Address: 314 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map: Map 6 Lot 45 First Owner: Marcyes - Danforth Pond Marcyes …He was in charge of the Custom House here for a long time, moving to Bar Harbor when his duties there were over. His son-in-law, James J. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 147 - 1938. | ||
| Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: ...Naval Radio Station in Bar Harbor under the commission of Alessandro Fabbri. The Station began operations in 1917 and was deconstructed in 1934... | |
| 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... | ||
| Howe D. Higgins House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Higgin's father, Fenelon Higgins of Bar Harbor is foreman of the work." Vol...I - History of Southwest Harbor – Oct. 16, 1921 to Jan. 9, 1924, #354, Pg. 94, August 8, 1923... File Attachment: Howe D. Higgins House.pdf …House History Howe Dwain Higgins House ME SWH Clark Point Road - 086 Address: 86 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 175. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library.pdf …Spear McRae (1842-1916) The first Bass Harbor Library was begun by Vesta E. (Spear) McRae, Mrs. …The new library and free reading room at Bass Harbor supplies a long-felt want in the community. Last autumn Mrs. G.M. …- The Bar Harbor Record, January 9, 1901. …In 1909 the Bass Harbor Library in Bernard, Mrs. V. E. | ||
| Jonathan Stewart House I Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Jonathan Stewart House I Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 200 - 1938..."Jonathan Stewart has sold his house in Seawall and will soon build in Southwest Harbor, where he has purchased land." - The Bar Harbor Times, June 12,... | ||
| 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... | ||
| Building of Arts, Eden Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Building of Arts, Eden Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Building of Arts was built for the summer population of Bar Harbor...See also: "Lost Bar Harbor," p. 110. "Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park," p. 16... | |
| La Rochelle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  La Rochelle Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...La Rochelle is a beautiful and elaborate “cottage” on West Street in Bar Harbor. Built in 1902 for George S...Maine Sea Coast Mission’s administrative offices, classroom and meeting space, as well as historical artifacts until 2019 when it was purchased by the Bar...Harbor Historical Society... | |||
| William Patch Dickey Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Patch Dickey Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...One cottage of the twin cottages that were the first built by rusticators in Southwest Harbor, Maine... File Attachment: William Patch Dickey Cottage - T.pdf …Farnham of Bangor about 1882 and were the first summer cottages to be built in Southwest Harbor or west of Bar Harbor. …In 1868, the Boston merchant Alpheus Hardy built the first summer cottage in Bar Harbor. Almost 15 years later, W.P. Dickey and Col. Augustus B. …- Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. …In 1888, their daughter, Miss Virginia Dickey of Bangor stayed at the Grand Central Hotel in Bar Harbor during the week of August 9. | ||
| Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service...By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor..., Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp... File Attachment: US LIFE-SAVING - CRANBERRY ISLES.pdf …In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. …By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor. …Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine History, United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 284-285. | ||
| Augustus Bowman Farnham Cottage Mary S. Snow Cottage Grey Rock Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...One cottage of the twin cottages that were the first built by rusticators in Southwest Harbor, Maine, the other built by W.P. Dickey... File Attachment: Augustus Bowman Farnham Cottage - T.pdf …Farnham of Bangor about 1882 and were the first summer cottages to be built in Southwest Harbor or west of Bar Harbor. …In 1868, the Boston merchant Alpheus Hardy built the first summer cottage in Bar Harbor. Almost 15 years later, W.P. Dickey and Col. Augustus B. …Miss Safford is in Europe where she will spend the summer in traveling." - The Bar Harbor Times, June 4, 1924, p. 8. …Bar Harbor Times, July 1, 1925. Devised to Virginia L. | ||
| 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... | ||
| The Cedars The Sylvester B. Brown House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...Scott will continue to let the remainder of her rooms to transients as usual.” – The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1925. “Mr. and Mrs...James Scott of The Cedars.” – The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 17, 1925 “Mr. and Mrs. Walter M....” – The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, August 19, 1925 Lizzie Lord sold “The Cedars” to Richard G. and Barbara Wallace Robinson on July 10, 1956...Juanita Esther (Dorr) Wilson died on December 18, 1997 in Southwest Harbor, Maine... | ||
| Alexandra Cottage - Dr. Abigail Mary (Redman) Fulton Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Alexandra Cottage - Dr. Abigail Mary (Redman) Fulton Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Abigail Mary Redman Fulton Cottage, built in Southwest Harbor, Maine, in 1888, was one of several houses that were built between 1885 and 2002 inspired... File Attachment: Dr. Abigail Mary Redman Fulton Cottage.pdf …The Bar Harbor Record, March 24, 1887. Southwest Harbor Hillside Cottage Dr. Alex Fulton and wife, Ellsworth. …The Bar Harbor Record, July 14, 1887 In 1888 the Fultons contracted to build Highland Cottage in Southwest Harbor. P.H. …Fulton s that are in the market The Bar Harbor Record, March 22, 1888. …The Bar Harbor Record, April 12, 1888 Southwest Harbor Mrs. Dr. | |
| Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Coast Guard has announced it will demolish the unmanned lighthouse which has stood on the breakwater at the entrance to Rockland Harbor since the beginning...The above photo was taken in 1904 when Captain Clifford Robbins of Southwest Harbor was the keeper...The 4300-foot breakwater, which protects Rockland Harbor from easterly storms, was eighteen years under construction and required 732,227 tons of stone...Lovering Robbins both died in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1967. Clifford's father, Howard P. Robbins was also a lighthouse keeper there. “Howard P... | ||
| Fred Sydney Mayo House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fred Sydney Mayo House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 151... File Attachment: Fred Sidney Mayo House - T.pdf …House History Fred Sidney Mayo House Address: 8 Wesley Avenue formerly Church Lane City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot Number: Map 6 …Mayo built his house in 1922-23 and his shop in 1926." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by …Mayo as a residence on Church Lane, near his father's home." - Bar Harbor Times, August 2, 1922, p. 8. | ||
| 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, | |
| Lobsterland Restaurant Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lobsterland Restaurant Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The original address of the building was 411 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. The house on the lot was built by Maurice and Vera Rich...Lobsterland Leveled The Bar Harbor Times, August, 1965 by LaRue Spiker "..... |