Keywords: Private estates
Item 71743
The Eyrie, Seal Harbor, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 108613
Camp Edgewood on Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Phippsburg Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 110089
Contemplated building for J.B. Brown & Sons, Portland, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Portland Client: J.B. Brown & Sons Architect: John P. Thomas
Item 111974
J. B. Brown & Sons alterations on Pine St., Portland, 1919
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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."
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock
"… became a public street when portions of the Knox estate were sold to private developers. James Overlock (1813-1906) came to Thomaston from…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools
"… it became a private home, presently owned by the Estate of Marshall Stevens. The cover of Songs from the Woods of Maine, by Julia H."
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Story
Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous
Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler