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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"… Click here to see pictures and read about the hotels and inns of the Savage Family, 1883-1964. UNDER CONSTRUCTION Asticou Inn Owned by family…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947

"MDI and the Fire of 1947 Belmont Hotel after the Fire of 1947Bar Harbor Historical Society The Fire of 1947 wiped out nearly 70 summer homes…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… numbers of “agreeable luxuries” offered by hotels, in fashionable changes of clothing, masquerade balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"The late 1800’s and early 1900’s saw the building of large hotels and many large summer “cottages”. This time period is sometimes referred to as the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings on Wheels Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… built the first Asticou Inn in 1883 (a 40-room hotel with only one bathroom, which was located approximately where the current Asticou Inn is…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"… Charles was thrown into managing the family hotel business with his mother, Mabelle Strout Savage (1877-1965), at the young age of 19 when he was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… place “alive with vehicles and tooters for the hotels, who swept them up in buckboards and whirled them at a gallop to their hotels.” -Harper’s New…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Eventually he tore down the original structures and built the Kimball House proper. The Founding of Acadia National Park"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… three-quarters of the staff are gathered on the hotel steps. -Opulence to Ashes: Bar Harbor’s Gilded Century, by Lydia B. Vandenbergh & Earle G."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Green Mountain had been the site of a hotel since about 1866 when Daniel Brewer create a carriage trail to the top and built a hotel."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"Belmont Hotel after the Fire of 1947Bar Harbor Historical Society After the war, islanders looked forward to restarting their lives."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… cottage aristocracy, the rich and distinguished hotel guests and every one almost who was of more than ordinary note."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"There was a physician (three in the summer), two dentists, an attorney and an architect. There were also two billiards halls and the Neighborhood…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"By the early 1870s, rusticators had plenty of hotels from which to choose, and by the early 1880s, many had built their own “cottages.” For the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Eight hotels were built. They included the Asticou Inn (1883), Indian Head (1887), Kimball House (1886), Rock End Hotel (1884), Roberts House (1883)…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… increased with each new summer season as many hotels offered more amenities and entertainments, and as cottagers initiated new activities, events…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1917Northeast Harbor Library In the 21st century, these trends have been exacerbated."

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

"“Maine: First Dry State in 1851.” Affordable Acadia, Affordable Acadia, 13 Oct. 2010, www.affordableacadia.com/2010/maine-first-dry-state-in-1851/."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Bar Harbor was called Eden for 1796 to 1918, and the last fifty years of that period was in many ways a “Golden Age” of architectural and garden…"

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