Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… of the Iron Company and the Silver Lake Hotel, and wrote descriptions of the business, employees, and conditions of iron production."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"This initial work, supported in part by the National Historical Records Advisory Board (NHPRC), focused on the working drawings from John Calvin…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… Guest House (1946) in Brewer and the Merchants National Bank (1974) in Bangor. Eaton Tarbell was one of the first architects in post-World War II…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"This block was built on the site of the Columbian Hotel and the Columbian Hall, which burned in 1893."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"The Braeburn hotel, the Turner house, either way, the lots have housed people for just under one hundred years."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Charles Bell and owned by the Forster Manufacturing Company. Tourists on their way to or from the Rangeley Lakes often stopped at the hotel (which…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"The National House hosted Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi while the Stanley Hotel provided the town with valuable shops, meeting spaces, dry…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… Fire Station 3) Guilford High School, Braeburn Hotel, Low's Covered Bridge 4) Guilford Memorial Library, Chase-Em-In Tea Room, Masonic Hall 5)…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"That home later became the Hotel Strong. Jeremy also built a mill, called Porter’s Mill, which made excelsior and other wood products."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… what was called the Bangor Plan, which allowed hotels and such to serve alcohol if they went to court and paid a fee twice a year."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… factory, doctors’ offices, a rake factory, a hotel, and many other businesses came and went. On the banks of the Androscoggin River, bounded by the…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… they were serenaded back to their state-run hotel where Soviet citizens were not allowed to join them in their rooms."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Business flourished with drug stores, grocers, hotels, department stores, a movie theater, bowling alley, shoe stores and other retailers providing…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Hotels and restaurants would host the volumes of tourists passing through on their way to the “up country” where fishing and hunting would be the…"