Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

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

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 - 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 - Gridley Barrows

"Gridley Barrows By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Gridley Barrows (1912-1999) was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1912."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"Project Background and Partners The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database started as a project in 2002, when Maine Historical Society (MHS)…"

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 - Database Overview

"Database Overview An ever-growing resource documenting Maine’s built and designed environment, this database includes architecture and landscape…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Database Collections Below is a listing of collections currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Maine Architectural Renderings By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Bramhall by Charles A. AlexanderMaine Historical Society With the emergence of…"

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 - 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 - 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…"

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… Storms, and Fixing the City by Gabby Horse A stable maybe I am stuck and it is tight Help has come for me Boy In a dark tight space A faint light…"

Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product

"… studio, carpenter's shop, blacksmith's shop, stable, wagon house, storehouse, boiler-house with stack and a rail siding."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Hotels in Thomaston

"A stable stood in the rear, the source of a disastrous fire in 1915 that destroyed the hotel and two business blocks on the south side of Main Street."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"The stable that was occupied by Simmons! The Stearns had gotten crushed like an eggshell. A horse had gotten trapped inside a compartment made by…"

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A horse was trapped in the stable but later rescued. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library Half of the Cotton Mill roof was…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince residence, Bangor, 1850

"… the maine house the other when the shed joins the stable." Martin made the drawing on July 7, 1864 as part of his Journal he wrote recollecting…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"… Block - a wooden commercial block next to it, a stable and the Knox Hotel to its west. Both the Watts Block and Knox Hotel were immediately…"