Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"These artistic perspective drawings differ from the sets of working drawings prepared for construction purposes that included elevations, floor…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… Bangor, the database includes a wide selection of drawings for urban, coastal, and rural communities."

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"… renderings, also known as presentation drawings, are also represented either as part of a commission or as a stand alone record."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… of collections currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by contributing repository."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… Advisory Board (NHPRC), focused on the working drawings from John Calvin Stevens, Frederick A. Tompson, John P."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… death in 1880, Coombs continued to practice architecture on his own. For the next sixteen years, he worked without a partner, relying on himself…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"He then attended Harvard’s School of Architecture, leaving in 1936 to work in New York City on WPA mural projects with such noted artists as Stuart…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… 1889 book “Examples of American Domestic Architecture.” John Calvin Stevens is one of the best documented figures in Maine architectural history…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"… item is part of the Eaton Tarbell architectural drawings and records collection. Other addresses include Exchange Street in Bangor, ME."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Through surviving photographs and drawing we revisit a number of Bar Harbor’s most famous gardens – most of which have been lost forever to neglect…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… widow Sallie Tarbell donated his architectural drawings to the Maine Historical Society, where they are essential to telling the story of how…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"The twenty-two sets of ink on linen drawings by Thomas at the Maine Historical Society were preserved by the successor firms of Miller and Mayo…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"… item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"He then studied at Harvard’s School of Architecture. Between October 1912 and April 1913, he traveled in Europe, spending much of his time in Italy."

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"This item is part of the Stevens Architects drawings and records collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"Biographies This site includes select biographies (listed at left) for database-represented architects and firms."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Frederick A. Tompson By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Frederick Augustus Tompson (1857-1919) was born in Portland in 1857. His father John A."

Maine Historic Preservation Commission

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin, Bangor, ca. 1868

"Martin kept detailed records and drawings of his activities and the areas in which he lived. He was interested in much that surrounded him…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin dream house, Bangor, 1866

"… a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, entitled this drawing that appears on page 52 of his 1864 "Scrap and Sketch Book," "Ball Hill Cove as it should…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin homestead, Bangor, ca. 1864

"A commentary that accompanies the drawing in "John Martin's Journal," which he began writing in 1864, provides details of each planting and other…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864

"… Accompanying this illustration, he wrote, "In drawing the house & L had I been artist enough to show a Jog I might & wished to represent this…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866

"In his description of the tree, he referred to a drawing on page 490 of his "Journal" where he wrote about a "magnificeient blackheart cherry tree."…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Atkins House, Jefferson Street, Bangor, 1851

"The drawing appears on page 387 of Martin's journal, which he wrote and illustrated in 1864 to recount his life and activities for his children."