Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"The old Queen’s Hospital buildings were kept for housing and classrooms for the 140 students then enrolled in the School of Nursing."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… days later the bill passed on the floor of the House, 193-59.[29] Finally, after three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… and comprehensive inclusion for all MHS-housed commissions. Eventually, the database will be open to contributing partners and privately held…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… of his work, the Eastern Corporation Guest House (1946) in Brewer and the Merchants National Bank (1974) in Bangor."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… gained a reputation as a skilled designer of houses, schools, churches, public buildings, and commercial blocks."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… in 1800 islanders voted to build two meeting houses, the Congregational on the Bass Harbor Road in Southwest Harbor, and the Baptist, on Meeting…"

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

"Affiliating with the Jordan Pond House, a public tea house located in Acadia National Park, and participating in other island institutions and…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… bookstore located in the same building that housed Ezekiel Goodale’s bookstore and publishing house in the early 1800s."

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"… the Knickerbocker Ice Company had several ice houses, and the ice was cut from the river in an area about one mile up and shipped to big cities…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The welcoming of houses brought the rapid growth of mills. In the 1790s, first mills were built along the 'sluiceway' and small dams were erected to…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"… Grange and the library and day care center were housed in their building in North New Portland.  The Grange was very helpful and agreed to allow…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"The building was divided up into “houses,” generally three of them, and further, into “bays” with “rails” in them."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… Chase-Em-In Tea Room, Masonic Hall 5) Oldest House in Guilford Odd Fellows Hall Text by Billy Gilbert and Jesse Fraser Images from the Guilford…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… an end to the Library or to find a new home to house the books. Catalogue of Cumberland Library, 1897Prince Memorial Library Cumberland…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"They built a house and farmed land between the Royal (Wescustogo) and Cousins (Chusquissacke) Rivers, in what is now present-day Yarmouth and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Jeremy Porter's house was built in the area where the gas pumps at White Elephant are located today. That home later became the Hotel Strong."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… arrival increased the need for low-cost, reliable housing, which Mr. Chisholm addressed in his plans for a model town, expressed in a letter to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"Bag Mill bachelor housing, Rumford, 1946Greater Rumford Area Historical Society These years of war presented a big challenge to all American…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"These apartment complexes housed many of the less well-paid workers of the mills. According to a Rumford Falls Times article of August 4, 1923 by a…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… Maine’s Visible Black History, 2006, Tilbury House, Gardiner, Maine. Riis, Jacob, How The Other Half Lives, 1997, Penguin Books, New York."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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