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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"In 1871, James C. Emerson built a small sawmill on the site of where the spool mill was to be. The sawmill engaged in sawing lumber for various…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Elmer Thomas graduated from Lewiston High School in 1882 and attended Wesleyan University for two years."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"Wilkinson was born in Cornish in 1871, grew up in Lewiston, and graduated from Lewiston High School."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"On May 12, 2000, the Lewiston Public Library and the Lewiston Historic Preservation Review Board held a public gathering to recognize the lifework of…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Maine Historical Society Coombs Brothers, Lewiston Stevens Architects (John Calvin Stevens et al.), Portland Frederick A."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Coombs of Lewiston, practiced architecture from 1872 until his death in 1909. In 1891 he hired twenty- year-old Harry C."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… Maine architects and firms in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor, the database includes a wide selection of drawings for urban, coastal, and rural…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… were added to the database overtime, most notably Lewiston-based Coombs Firm, ultimately growing to about 6,400 commissions by the year 2020."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… Rumford Publishing Co, Inc., 1972 and Josten’s Printing and Publishing, Topeka, KS, 2000; Rumford Falls Times Lewiston Evening Journal"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"In the late 19th century, as paper mills, textile mills, and shoe factories proliferated along the Androscoggin, additional waves of immigrants, in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"A call was placed to Lewiston Fire Company for aid, and by 7:10 p.m., a train loaded with firemen and equipment departed for Rumford."

Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"… Hartford, Sumner—look upon Auburn/Lewiston or South Paris/Norway as their commercial centers."

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

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

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"John P. Thomas This article is based on Roger G. Reed’s biography of John P. Thomas in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"John Calvin Stevens By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. John Calvin Stevens, Portland, ca. 1910Maine Historical Society Born in Boston in 1855, John…"

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 - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Lost Gardens of Eden “Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: the landscape of Mount Desert Island” by Patrick Chassé."

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"Search the Database The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database organizes and searches for items at the commission (project) level."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Frederick A. Tompson By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Frederick Augustus Tompson (1857-1919) was born in Portland in 1857. His father John A."

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 - 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…"