Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"Landscape design, parks, urban planning, and planned communities represent a smaller, but growing portion of the listed holdings."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… from the noise and pollution of industrialized urban life. Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… to unspoiled nature from their rapidly developing urban surroundings. One place they discovered was the relative backwater of coastal Maine."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… city dwellers from all classes a diversion from urban life, a day of amusement in the country. The efficiently run trolley was not the only means…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… while the city debated a 1959 proposal for urban renewal. In addition to stimulating the growth of downtown parking lots, heavy automobile traffic…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Bangor began to experience urban sprawl with the opening of its first malls. These malls gave Bangor citizens up-to-date shopping facilities with…"