Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… later, Coombs invited Wilkinson to help form the firm of Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson. Between 1896 and 1899 the partnership designed changes to the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Collection names are styled after the firm's proper name, or as they appear in the contributing repository's catalogue."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… Harry Coombs formed a partnership with his nephew Alonzo J. Harriman, paving the way for the architectural firm in Auburn known today as Harriman."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… predominantly representing Maine architects and firms in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor, the database includes a wide selection of drawings for…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"In 1950, he moved to Boston to complete his architectural education at Harvard while working for Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"After Stevens’ death, his firm was continued by his son and grandson. In 1973 John Calvin Stevens II presented the Maine Historical Society with the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"Additional firms were added to the database overtime, most notably Lewiston-based Coombs Firm, ultimately growing to about 6,400 commissions by the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… Harvard in 1941, Tarbell worked for engineering firms in Boston and Bangor before opening his office in Bangor in 1944."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"By 1914 Thomas had joined the firm of Wait and Copeland in Boston. Proposed Nordica Memorial Museum by John P. Thomas, ca."

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

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

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 - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… of that period was in many ways a “Golden Age” of architectural and garden expression in this extraordinary landscape."

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

"… by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development Associates Trust at Hancock Street in Bangor, ME, circa…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"… at left) for database-represented architects and firms. The biographies are largely authored by Maine State Historian Earle G."

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

"The commission is associated with George M. Coombs. This item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection."

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

"… by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Portland Museum of Art at an unknown address in Portland, ME, circa…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… John Calvin Stevens, who joined the Fassett firm upon completing Portland High School in 1873. Fassett trained both young men as draftsmen."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… peak of this boom period, at least nineteen major firms were building ships in Bath. As shipbuilding flourished, the population of the town in 1830…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"By holding contracts to produce replacement sails, the firm enjoyed a steady supply of orders. Sail damage was guaranteed in the horrendous storms in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"As a new business venture, the firm currently produces solar-powered generators designed for, among other things, disaster relief, a project based on…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"Prior to the 1980s, the firm had worked on close to 300 vessels. Several draggers built by the Morse Boat Building Co."

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"He later joined his brothers’ shipbuilding firm and became one Bath’s wealthiest citizens. Charles Thompson of South Berwick, ca."

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

"It is his family name that became firmly associated with it, right until today. Here, as was the case in other smokehouses in the area, this food…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… build), apprentice in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, travel through Europe, and open his own landscape architecture…"