Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… Field Crosby's Grist Mill Store, called Old Brick Store, Hampden, built in 1807Hampden Historical Society While Hampden was not the first…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"Among the enterprises he was involved with were a brick store that he built and a share in Wheeler’s mills and the Long Wharf, located at the end of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince residence, Bangor, 1850

"The illustration is on page 341. The house and brick tenements and brick store were built in 1832-1833. The house was at 176 Center Street."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ship Captains

"Agry built his house of bricks on Second Street, two houses north of the U.S. Post Office, which is on Winthrop Street and still stands today."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… in Hallowell in 1905 and occupied one of the brick buildings belonging to the Kennebec Reality Company."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"A boot and shoe factory, a brick mill, a sawmill and a clothespin factory opened, and other businesses that followed also flourished because people…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"In 1903, it was re-built, this time from brick. Again, it was three stories tall, with the ground floor being stores."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"The school was 18x22 feet with 7x9 glass windows. Aaron also built many other buildings across the town of Lincoln."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864

"… of the south and eastern end Prince's brick store and factory. He made the drawing, which appears on page 379 of the journal, on July 21, 1864 and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850, and worked as a brick mason in Saco, Bowdoinham, and Freeman. He enlisted from Bowdoinham in Company F, 19th…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Eventually all other schools shut down, including Blue Hill Academy, and the only two left standing were the Consolidated School - which served the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"… & crossed to Brewer & sketched her from the Brick Wharf oposite Steam Boat wharf. I then went on board & examined her machinery guns & work…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Green's Department Store

"… Klein, from New York, rebuilt the building from brick in 1914. Green rented the building and added on to the store in 1923."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… Rufus Prince First Baptist Church Gordon Percival Brick kilns Steamer Bangor Cyrus Goss William Cobb, dancing master Banqor Quartet Club Zachary…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… his business dealings, his plan to build a new brick store, and, eventually, Martin's departure from the business, joining Pendleton & Ross, ship…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"The brick building is captured in a drawing done by John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated a journal…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"… by J Robinson to an Irishman and moved to McGaws Brick yard April 6th 1871." The Mrs. Cary to whom he referred was his mother-in-law."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"… would come into Burnt Coat Harbor and collect brick sized cut stone. Quarry rails, Swan's Island, ca."

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… was an outspoken critic of the traditional brick Georgian Revival style favored for high school and college buildings, calling it “way behind the…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"His father Sylvanus D. Thomas was a brick mason and building contractor, who was responsible for the construction of many buildings in Lewiston and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… to raise funds that resulted in the attractive brick library building on the corner of Main Street and Parker Point Road that opened its doors in…"