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Maine Historic Preservation Commission

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Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"As commissions are digitized, new images are added to the database. However, adding at least one image per commission is considered a priority over…"

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

"The commission is associated with George M. Coombs. This item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"Participation only requires the commission have a Maine location or designer. Further, a commission may extend beyond working drawings and…"

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

"The commission is associated with Eaton W. Tarbell. This item is part of the Eaton Tarbell architectural drawings and records collection."

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

"The commission is associated with John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects. This item is part of the Stevens Architects drawings and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"While serving as Maine Historic Preservation Commission's (MHPC) director, 1976-2015, Shettleworth spearheaded the Biographical Dictionary of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources

"With an Appendix, Containing the Testimony. Philadelphia: U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1864. Savage, Douglas J. Prison Camps in the Civil War."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… digitizing at least one drawing from each commission, and comprehensive inclusion for all MHS-housed commissions."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of North New Portland

"… bridge constructed by the Maine State Highway commission in 1921. On a 1909 post card the old bridge appears to be mostly constructed of wood."

Western Maine Cultural Alliance

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store interior, Bangor, 1862

"… to stock the store, essentially selling items on commission to repay Patten. Due to various economic downturns and the start of the Civil War…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Rusticators were curious about the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot families who encamped every summer at Bar…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"The documents produced by the border commission, particular early on, consistently highlight Passamaquoddy and wider Wabanaki Nations’ deep knowledge…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of East New Portland

"… constructed in 1936 by the Maine State Highway Commission. Covered Bridge: Covered Bridge at East New PortlandNew Portland Historical Society…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… of Architects, chairman of the Maine Arts Commission, and member of the Bangor Historic Preservation Commission."

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… that produced the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. In 2008, Hallowell joined with other municipalities and environmental groups to promote…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… and representatives from town, state and federal commissions and agencies organized as the Friends of Scarborough Marsh (FOSM)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"Of the four commissions it authorized, only the one tasked with settling the sovereignty of islands in Passamaquoddy Bay was resolved expeditiously…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion…"

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

"… luscious hand carved signs and placques, often commissions for summer residents, local churches, the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… to the main entrance. Paul Revere Bell Commissioned for Thomaston Meeting House, 1797The General Henry Knox Museum Eaton describes the…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"… on August 6, 1942 at the age of 39 and she was commissioned as WAAF 3d officer on October 3, 1942."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… 1875 and 1880 the two men received seventy-five commissions for houses, churches, schools, business blocks, and factories."