Maine Memory Network

Farmhouse and barn, Lubec, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Riverside Farm, North Road, North Yarmouth, ca. 1895

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print

Reed property, Joseph Reed Farmhouse, Little Chebeague Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Joseph B. Reed Use: Summer Dwelling

Farm house addition for E. Woodward, North Yarmouth, 1983-1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983–1985 Location: North Yarmouth Client: E. Woodward Architect: John Calvin Stevens, II

John S. Hyde farmer's cottage, Bath, 1913-1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1915 Location: Bath Client: John Sedgwick Hyde Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Farm-yard Frames

Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)

Student Exhibit: A Civil War Soldier from Skowhegan

Alexander Crawford a soldier from Skowhegan, was born in 1839 on a farm on the Dudley Corner Road in Skowhegan. He served in the Civil War and returned to Skowhegan to run the family farm.

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place

"… will sit beside what once must have been a farmhouse. One feels in the presence of each house a sense of history, of how numerous other generations…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Historical Society

"Our building, the General Henry Knox Farmhouse, opens at 7:00 p.m. on meeting days for a social hour prior to the meeting."

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.

My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham

A story about my father and our family.