Maine Memory Network

The Summit House Hotel in South Bristol Village, ca. 1910

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: South Bristol Media: Postcard

Residence of D. C. Blair, Bar Harbor, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

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

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

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

Owner in 1924: John A. McDougall Use: 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.

Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.

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…"