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Item 28781

Thespian Club, Paris Hill, 1864

Contributed by: Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum Date: 1864-02-12 Location: Paris Media: Ink on paper

Item 28784

Judge Emery house, Paris, 2007

Contributed by: Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum Date: 2007 Location: Paris Media: Photographic print

Item 28789

Paris Hill Common as it looked ca. 1822

Contributed by: Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum Date: circa 1830 Location: Paris Media: Print of drawing

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151577

South Paris Library, Paris, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Paris Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

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
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Item 151552

Mrs. J. H. Bridge residence, Paris, 1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1937 Location: Paris Client: Mrs. J. H. Bridge Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Hannibal Hamlin of Paris Hill

2009 marked the bicentennials of the births of Abraham Lincoln and his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. To observe the anniversary, Paris Hill, where Hamlin was born and raised, honored the native statesman and recalled both his early life in the community and the mark he made on Maine and the nation.

Exhibit

Southern Cross commemorative print, ca. 1928

Harry Lyon: An Old Sea Dog Takes to the Air

Through a chance meeting, Harry Lyon of Paris Hill became the navigator on the 1928 flight of the Southern Cross, the first trans-Pacific flight. His skill as a navigator, despite his lack of experience, was a key factor on the flight's success.

Exhibit

Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.