Keywords: Stores and shops
Item 23316
Saco and Pettee Shops, Biddeford, 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Glass plate negative
Item 82068
Main Street shops, Westbrook, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library Date: circa 1950 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print
Item 86745
Tin Shop and Storage, Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Wharf Proprietors Use: Tin Shop and Storage
Item 37302
144 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Clinton W. Davis Agent Use: Shop - Junk
Item 110077
Store building at Peaks Island, Portland, 1927-1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1936 Location: Portland Client: Maine Forty Four Corporation Architect: John P. Thomas
Item 110013
Alterations to store at Woodfords Corner for Chapman & Wyman, Portland, ca. 1904
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Portland Client: Chapman & Wyman Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
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 - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop
"Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop Former site of Knox's wharf This 1946 inage shows the area at the foot of Wadsworth Street where…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Carney's Store
"Peter Carney was the owner of the shop at this time. Peter had used the store for his barbershop business and for selling clothing."
Story
A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith
Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.
Story
Norman Sevigny: history of a neighborhood grocery store
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Growing up in a Franco-American community and working in the family business, Sevigny’s Market