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Keywords: Ash House

Historical Items

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Item 79045

Red Cross Car and Trailer, Main Street, Northeast Harbor, 1947

Contributed by: Northeast Harbor Library Date: 1947 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 10765

Heywood Tavern, Skowhegan, ca. 1836

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1836 Location: Skowhegan Media: Print

Item 6748

Second Dwelling House, Alfred Shaker Village, ca. 1903

Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1903 Location: Alfred Media: Slide from a glass-plate negative

Tax Records

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Item 32813

133 Ash Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Chester A. Dikeman Style: National Folk Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 32040

Assessor's Record, 133 Ash Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Clarance Dykeman Use: Shed

Item 37449

Assessor's Record, 2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Ash Screening Plant

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150718

Dwelling House for Howard W. Maxwell, Lewiston, ca. 1877

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1877 Location: Lewiston Client: Howard W. Maxwell Architect: Stevens and Coombs Architects

Item 150407

House for George W. Bean, Lewiston, 1891-1899

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1891–1899 Location: Lewiston; Brunswick Client: George W. Bean Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Exhibit

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

Exhibit

Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan

Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"Both pot-ash and pearl-ash were worth more than any other product a farmer could produce, and large quantities were shipped from Hallowell until the…"

Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - About Us

"About Us Up from the ashes: Swan's Island has learned to appreciate its historic resources after seeing them threatened."

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"-Opulence to Ashes: Bar Harbor’s Gilded Century, by Lydia B. Vandenbergh & Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Jordan Pond House staff, ca."

My Maine Stories

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Story

making light
by David Johansen

My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.

Story

Tracers
by anonymous

tracers, bonding, and fixations

Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.