Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… Frank Blaisdell drew up the plans for the park; he was an excellent candidate for the job, with vast experience designing a number of other…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"However, as time passed and places like Riverside Park that offered social opportunities closed, people looked to other towns and cities for…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - About Us

"… of themes and topics in Maine history; lesson plans; a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

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

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

"He and park creator George Bucknam Dorr worked with the government to gain enough lands and funds to eventually make Acadia National Park official in…"

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

"Acadia National Park was popular, well established, and attractive to a growing and mobile summer population."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… 21st century, and the legacy of Acadia National Park. Bar Harbor was called Eden for 1796 to 1918, and the last fifty years of that period was in…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… Street (1912), the Exposition Building on Park Avenue (1914), and the Rich Building (1892) and the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company Building…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About MCHP

"… organized by time period and theme; lesson plans; a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… and is the culmination of many months of planning and development. It takes leadership to get the job done, and the message here is that you can…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"I planned to open the door one-half hour before the children came. Sometimes I built a fire in a long stove, using odd pieces of discarded shovel…"

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

"… “calls of the wild” influenced the vacation plans of people seeking relief from the noise and pollution of industrialized urban life."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

"His plan was to use the building for a summer theatre. In October 1947 the Building of Arts was lost in the large fire that swept the eastern side of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… Savage lodgings were accompanied by the “American plan” of three meals, many served at the nearby Asticou Inn."

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

"… him in her annual meetings, correspondence, and planning. Through this association, Charles became more intimate with Farrand’s designs and in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… of themes and topics in Maine history; lesson plans; a gallery of student history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… and his wife, Emily Manchester, according to a plan drawn by neighbor, summer resident, and civil engineer, Joseph H. Curtis of Boston."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… rain, and dramatic tide changes forced changes in plans and locations regularly. In addition, the rocky coast and frigid waters resulted in…"

Presque Isle Air Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"… different jobs; the Forest Service, Bureau of Parks and Plants for Baxter State Park, and the Department of Conservation."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982

""We will stay until Christmas, if we have to," one grower said. The farmers planned to stay until their demands were met. This item is in copyright."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldiers' Monument, Bangor, 1864

"… the monument, which had been planned for Central Park. Martin wrote, "its dimentions are inferior to many which supposed it would be much larger &…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… Hallowell viewed from Butternut Park, Chelsea, ca. 1890Hubbard Free Library In 1909, Emma Huntington Nason, poet, author and composer wrote…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… and up Center Street Hill as far as Broadway Park. According to a contemporary newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50…"