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Keywords: Harbor Cottage

Historical Items

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Item 18928

Ullikana Cottage, Bar Harbor, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 17209

Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Bar Harbor Fire Department Date: circa 1960 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 18637

Higgins Cottage, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1925 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 149070

Colket residence site plan, Bar Harbor, 1968-1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1968–1994 Location: Bar Harbor Client: Tristram Colket Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 149116

Burden residence site plan, Northeast Harbor, 1947-1998

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947–1998 Location: Mount Desert Client: Jean Burden Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 109540

Plans of Cottage at Isle of Springs for G. M. Coombs, Archt., Boothbay Harbor, 1887-1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887–1906 Location: Boothbay Harbor Client: George M. Coombs Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects

Online Exhibits

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

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Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.

Site Pages

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Historically, the cottage industries were common in areas where a large percentage of local population was engaged in seasonal work, because families…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"Cranberry Lodge (Formerly Harbor Cottage) Northeast Harbor Maine, Winter 2009Northeast Harbor Library The Old Ell is Born..."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… built their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor. It outdid the rest of the island in the number…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

Story

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima