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Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"Landscape design, parks, urban planning, and planned communities represent a smaller, but growing portion of the listed holdings."

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"… includes working drawings, such as floor plans, elevations, framing or engineering plans. On occasion, photographs, specifications or other…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by contributing repository."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Mount Desert Island was a place of environmental diversity and dramatic landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"Chasse's collection provided an opportunity to expand landscape design holdings and build a network of partners to support converting the database to…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… architect, Frederick Tompson was an accomplished landscape painter, sculptor, and photographer. He belonged to the Brush’un painting group with…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"During this period, he oversaw the planning of such notable projects as the Muskie Federal Building in Augusta, the Forest Resources Building at the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"Biographies This site includes select biographies (listed at left) for database-represented architects and firms."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… purposes that included elevations, floor plans, framing plans, and building details. One of the first Maine architects to make renderings, also…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"For John P. Thomas, who planned banks and palatial homes, the Great Depression of the 1930s brought difficult times that resulted in fewer…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… the Stevens Collection, which is comprised of plans, blueprints, renderings, drawings, sketch books, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"George Coombs By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Home for Joseph Briggs designed by George M. Coombs, 1884 Maine Historical Society George Millard…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"Eaton W. Tarbell By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992)…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Elmer I. Thomas By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Elmer I. Thomas (1863-1895) was born in Lewiston in 1863. His father Sylvanus D."

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Landscape Photography Mussey's Row, Middle Street, Portland, ca. 1856Maine Historical Society Taken in 1845 or 1846, this view of buildings…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Landscape Photography Bemis Family, South Paris, ca. 1870Maine Historical Society Communities beyond the Portland area are also represented…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… the Hudson River School, a famous movement of landscape and seascape painters influenced by romantic primitivism."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… to retreat to Mount Desert Island each summer was landscape engineer Joseph Henry Curtis (1841-1928)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the company laid claim to a roughly 1,500 square mile region on either…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Rockefeller developed a passion for the landscape and immediately involved himself with plans to preserve it."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Ever vigilant of the natural landscape while not losing sight of furthering the commercial attractiveness of Asticou, Charles came into his own…"