Search Results

Keywords: Light Houses

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 124 Showing 3 of 124

Item 148231

Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, 1887

Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-06-18 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print

Item 37510

West Quoddy Head Light, Lubec, ca. 1860, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 23941

Baker Island Light, off Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Postcard

Tax Records

View All Showing 2 of 61 Showing 3 of 61

Item 37462

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

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Hydrant Houses

Item 74580

Assessor's Record, Conduits House, Hooper Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Cumberland County Power & Light Company Use: Conduits House

Architecture & Landscape

View All Showing 2 of 4 Showing 3 of 4

Item 151360

Sheshunoff residence, Scarborough, 1990-1992

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1990–1992 Location: Scarborough Clients: Gabrielle Sheshunoff; Alex Sheshunoff Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect

Item 151704

Payson House, Scarborough, 1936-1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936–1938 Location: Scarborough Client: Harold C. Payson Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151335

The Checkley House, Scarborough, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Scarborough Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 65 Showing 3 of 65

Exhibit

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Exhibit

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Exhibit

Mural mystery in Westport Island's Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House

The Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House, a well-preserved Greek Revival house on Westport Island, has a mystery contained within--a panoramic narrative mural. The floor-to-ceiling mural contains eight painted panels that create a colorful coastal seascape which extends through the front hallway and up the stairwell. The name of the itinerant painter has been lost over time, can you help us solve the mystery of who he or she was?

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 90 Showing 3 of 90

Site Page

West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description On page 122 of…"

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"Infantry and the sixth Maine Battery light artillery. To perpetuate the memory of his comrades.” The request for a gazebo was taken to the town…"

My Maine Stories

View All Showing 2 of 10 Showing 3 of 10

Story

making light
by David Johansen

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

Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

Story

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin