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"… such as floor plans, elevations, framing or engineering plans. On occasion, photographs, specifications or other supplemental materials are…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"from Harvard in 1941, Tarbell worked for engineering firms in Boston and Bangor before opening his office in Bangor in 1944."

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

"… item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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

"… item is part of the Eaton Tarbell architectural drawings and records collection. Other addresses include Exchange Street in Bangor, ME."

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

"This item is part of the Stevens Architects drawings and records collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"These artistic perspective drawings differ from the sets of working drawings prepared for construction purposes that included elevations, floor…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… Bangor, the database includes a wide selection of drawings for urban, coastal, and rural communities."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… Advisory Board (NHPRC), focused on the working drawings from John Calvin Stevens, Frederick A. Tompson, John P."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Through surviving photographs and drawing we revisit a number of Bar Harbor’s most famous gardens – most of which have been lost forever to neglect…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"The twenty-two sets of ink on linen drawings by Thomas at the Maine Historical Society were preserved by the successor firms of Miller and Mayo…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… is comprised of plans, blueprints, renderings, drawings, sketch books, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and specifications."

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"… Maine, a project to document historic architects, engineers, and builders throughout the state. Through a series of short essays and checklists."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… joined the experienced Lewiston architect and engineer William H. Stevens to establish the partnership of Stevens and Coombs."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"His father was an engineer, and his mother was an artist. Barrows graduated from Philips Exeter in 1929 and from Harvard in 1934."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864

"… walls tumbled in and floors fell in enbracing the engine planing mills &c ." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

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 - Database Collections

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

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."

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"… technology, the ships relied more on oil and an engine than wind power. On a ship, it was important to have lifeboats in case of an emergency."

Maine Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The Chief Engineer, Joseph W. Taney, and his crew surveyed the route and began construction. The company ran short of funds and the building ceased."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… a message to Bangor for them to send a fire engine because the town of Lincoln was in extreme danger of being engulfed in flames."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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