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Historical Items

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Item 81108

Asticou Azalea Garden, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1958

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1958 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Item 81408

Thuya Garden Gate, Northeast Harbor, 2011

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 2011 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Photographic print

Item 81106

Thuya Garden & Asticou Terraces, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1961

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1961 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151812

New York Botanical Garden ornamental conifer collections, Bronx, NY, 1946-1999

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946–1999 Location: Bronx Client: New York Botanical Gardens Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 151811

New York Botanical Garden Rodney White country garden, Bronx, NY, 1990-1998

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1990–1998 Location: Bronx Client: New York Botanical Gardens Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 151259

Thuya Garden, Mount Desert, 1998

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1998 Location: Mount Desert Client: Thuya Land & Garden Preserve Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

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

Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

Exhibit

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… century that still illuminates and inspires new gardens at the turn of the next century. Garden at Beau Desert, Bar Harbor, ca."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin gate design, Bangor, 1867

"… was interested in architecture, landscape design, gardening, dancing, and other topics and wrote and illustrated five volumes of recollections…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Barnyard gate design, Bangor, 1867

"… was interested in architecture, landscape design, gardening, dancing, and numerous other topics, drew the series of gate designs in his "Scrap Book…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR