Description: Floor plans blueprints of the original "Anchorage" in Seal Harbor. It was later torn down to build the Nelson Rockefeller house. Subsequently owned by Josephine Ford.
Description: Hand-colored group photograph of some Seal Harbor children. Back row (L to R): Chester Smallidge, Grafton Pinkham, Leslie Clement, Fred Willikenson, Cliff Bracy, Frankie Clement, Everett Jordan. 2nd row (L to R): Estella Chapson, Ralph Liscomb, Roy Clement, Irving Clement, Arthur Clement, Tommy Dodge. 3rd row (L to R): Ed Jordan (grandfather of Judith Harvel), Mabel Lynam, Arno Varnum, Villa Lun..., Dora ..., Ella ..., Marc ... Courtesy of Mrs. Judith Harvel and Ms. Melissa Harvel, Seal Harbor (who has the original framed photograph). [show more]
Description: "This 1895 photograph of Seal Harbor shows the Seaside Inn on the left and The Glencove rear center. The Seaside Inn was rebuilt from the Clement family homestead in 1869, enlarged in 1875 and torn down in 1964. Edwin Lynam and his son-in-law, Robert Campbell, put up the Glencove in 1883. Hansen, in his book of the town of Mount Desert, says that the Glencove “seems to have been a resort of professionals and intellectuals. Its guests sometimes included such a large portion of scholars that it was said that the bell hops were…construing Latin phrases.” The Glencove was sold and demolished in 1910 and the site became the village green."- MH - Mt. Desert Islander - 2007. [show more]
Description: Shows Seal Harbor beach from Seaside Inn site. Note: Glen Cove Hotel pier at left center. Also shows steamboat dock and Little Cranberry Island in distance
Description: Plot Plan of Land at Seal Harbor, ME property for William Adams Brown D. D., 1899, Edgar I. Lord 1 copy of Specifications for Cottage. 1 copy of Specifications for Plumbing. 1 letter and some sketches.
Description: The large cottage in the background is "Wild Cliff" at Seal Harbor designed and built for Alexander MacKay-Smith (1850-1911) by Charles A. Candage (1851-1912), a local builder, in 1901-1902. Bishop MacKay-Smith was head of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. He donated the “Morning Star” to the Maine Seacoast Mission as their second mission boat.