Contributed by Brick Store Museum
Description
This mural of the village of Kennebunkport from the river, as it might have looked circa 1825-40, was painted in the late 1930s by Gordon Grant for the Kennebunkport post office, where it can be seen today. It is a romanticized view, but includes landmarks such as the South Congregational Church (left), a circa 1840s shipyard, and the Captain Nathaniel Lord mansion of 1812-14 on the right (which is actually located farther down the river). The mural was painted at the behest of novelists Kenneth Roberts and Booth Tarkington and was photographed by the Willett-Art Studios of New York City.
About This Item
- Title: Mural of Kennebunkport village, ca. 1830
- Creator: Gordon Grant
- Creation Date: circa 1830
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Kennebunkport, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 10 cm x 24.5 cm
- Local Code: 84.L.367.b
- Object Type: Image
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- Artists, United States
- Authors, United States
- Churches--Maine--Kennebunkport
- Congregational churches--Maine--Kennebunkport
- Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962
- Kennebunkport (Me.)--Description and views
- Kennebunkport (Me.)--Murals--1825-1840
- Lord, Nathaniel--Homes and haunts--Maine--Kennebunkport
- Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957
- Shipbuilding--Maine--Kennebunkport
- Ships
- Shipyards--Maine--Kennebunkport
- South Congregational Church (Kennebunkport, Me.)
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
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