Maine Memory Network

Odd Fellows Poster/Broadside, Biddeford, ca. 1855

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1855 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Henry W. Longfellow's Student Lodgings in Goettingen, Germany, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Goettingen Media: Photographic print

156-158 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Rocky Hill Lodge Corporation Use: Store & Hall

Assessor's Record, 156-158 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Rocky Hill Lodge Corporation Use: Dead Storage and Autos

Alterations in Building for Fort Fairfield Lodge of Masons, Fort Fairfield, 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912 Location: Fort Fairfield Client: Fort Fairfield Lodge of Masons Architect: Coombs Bros. Architects

Pythagorean Lodge, Fryeburg, 1935-1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935–1938 Location: Fryeburg Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

People, Pets & Portraits

Informal family photos often include family pets -- but formal, studio portraits and paintings also often feature one person and one pet, in formal attire and pose.

Presidents and Campaigns

Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business Savage Family Hotel Page Images -III Click here to see pictures and read about the hotels and inns…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3

"… Masonic Lodges have consolidated, and the Davis Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, combined with the Phillips Lodge, and the building was…"

Bunkers and Lodges
by Bob Martin & Emily Holdtman Martin

Growing up in Maine, summering in Maine, and how it's changed.

The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard

The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family

Building Community/Community Buildings

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.