Keywords: cottages
Item 71822
Cottages along the waterfront, Wells Beach, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Wells Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 71856
Cottages along the beach, Wells Beach, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Wells Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 82492
Boothby property, Oakland Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Martha A. Boothby Style: Cottage Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 82396
Brackett property, N. Side Oak Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: James W. Brackett Style: Cottage Use: Residence
Item 151472
Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 151636
Cottage at Biddeford Pool, Biddeford, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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."
Exhibit
This collection of images portrays many buildings in Sanford and Springvale. The images were taken around the turn of the twentieth century.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"Historically, the cottage industries were common in areas where a large percentage of local population was engaged in seasonal work, because families…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers
"… luxury and privacy and built their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor."
Story
Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn circa 1960
by David Rollins
The creation of Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn at Sugarloaf USA
Story
making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
