Maine Memory Network

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 - Biographies

"While serving as Maine Historic Preservation Commission's (MHPC) director, 1976-2015, Shettleworth spearheaded the Biographical Dictionary of…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"He was active in the Lewiston Historic Preservation Review Board, Greater Portland Landmarks, Maine Citizens for Historic Preservation, the Maine…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… Commission, and member of the Bangor Historic Preservation Commission. He was also active in promoting alcohol and drug treatment and prevention in…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"… by Thomas at the Maine Historical Society were preserved by the successor firms of Miller and Mayo; Miller, Mayo, and Beal; and Beal, DePeter, and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Fortunately, the Maine Historical Society has preserved outstanding examples of the render’s art from 1850 to 1950, the period in which architectural…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Sagadahoc Preservation, Inc. (SPI), a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation of buildings possessing architectural or…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"He spent part of every day outdoors, walking in the native world around him. He cared passionately about preserving the natural gifts of the island…"

Greater Portland Landmarks

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Acadia National Park

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Freeport Historical Society

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the company laid claim to a roughly 1,500 square mile region on either…"

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

"… to retreat to Mount Desert Island each summer was landscape engineer Joseph Henry Curtis (1841-1928)."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"The waterfront landscape was densely crowded with smokehouses, sardine canneries, lumber and coal businesses out on the wharves."

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

"Rockefeller developed a passion for the landscape and immediately involved himself with plans to preserve it."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… in the evening.” Charles Eliot opened his own landscape architecture business and became a pioneer in that field."

Rumford Area Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… 7, pages 452-534 Births of Annie, Junior, Elmer; landscaping and garden design, business failures and attempts to find work   Part 8, pages…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Another facet was the introduction of preserving food in cans. Sandy River Packing Co. Corn can labelFarmington Historical Society In 1869…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… left behind after the ice age formed much of the landscape. In the distance, Mt. Blue stands as a sentinel overlooking Farmington."

Acadian Archives

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"The landscape of our towns is very different today, wooded now where once sheep and cattle grazed the fields, keeping down growth and preserving wide…"