Maine Memory Network

Katharine Robinson Curtis, New Jersey, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Summit Media: Photographic print

Summit Spring advertising card, Harrison, ca. 1881

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1881 Location: Harrison Media: Ink on paper

Bruton property, Summit Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Leon G. Bruton Use: Summer Dwelling

Marr property, Summit Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Sherman L. Marr Use: Summer Dwelling

Basset house, Summit, NJ, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1909 Location: Summit Client: Carroll Phillips Bassett Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Carroll Phillips Bassett house, Summit, NJ, 1886-1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886–1910 Location: Summit Client: Carroll Phillips Bassett Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects

Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

Skiing Pleasant Mountain

By the second half of the 20th century, skiing began to enjoy unprecedented popularity. Pleasant Mountain in Bridgton (later Shawnee Peak) was Maine's foremost place to join the fun in the 1950s and 1960s.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Clerque also built a hotel, named the Summit House, on Green Mountain. Clerque’s railway ran for about 10 years."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… enthusiast, a plan for a carriage road to the summit of Mount Washington. Eight years later in August, 1861, the Mount Washington Carriage Road…"