Keywords: Built landscape
Item 148667
Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1909 Location: Van Buren Media: Photographic postcard
Item 19161
A Morning View of Blue Hill Village, 1824
Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1824 Location: Blue Hill Media: Oil on Panel
Item 151218
Burmeister residence, Paris, 1981-1996
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1981–1996
Location: Paris; Paris
Clients: William Burmeister; Cynthia Burmeister
Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
This record contains 6 images.
Item 151894
Farrand Rose Garden, Bar Harbor, 1929-1990
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929–1990 Location: Bar Harbor Client: College of the Atlantic Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape
The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.
Exhibit
The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels
Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview
"… this database includes architecture and landscape design commissions from ca. 1850 through the present."
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database
"Search the Database The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database organizes and searches for items at the commission (project) level."
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
Lesson Plan
Portland History: Lemuel Moody and the Portland Observatory
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Social Studies
Lemuel Moody and the Portland Observatory Included are interesting facts to share with your students and for students, an interactive slide show available on-line at Maine Memory Network. The "Images" slide show allows students to place historical images of the Observatory in a timeline. Utilizing their observation skills students will place these images in chronological order by looking for changes within the built environment for clues. Also available is the "Maps" slide show, a series of maps from key eras in Portland's history. Students will answer the questions in the slide show to better understand the topography of Portland, the need for an Observatory and the changes in the landscape and the population centers.
