Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin barn plan, Bangor, 1867

"Model for a barn supposing the site is an elevation on a main thoroughfare or connected with a house where room can be obtained on lots conspicuous."…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"Her ideals were elevated, her trust in eternal goodness and its purpose strengthened, and her own possibilities as a social and intellectual force…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… 106, he drew the illustration of a corn and flour elevator with all available space packed with spectators watching to race."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… prepared for construction purposes that included elevations, floor plans, framing plans, and building details."

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"… includes working drawings, such as floor plans, elevations, framing or engineering plans. On occasion, photographs, specifications or other…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… "Father of the Skyscraper;" inventor of the elevator (sold his patents to Otis); designer of fishing reels (also see business leader below) Supply…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… a tier of wall pews in the rear… The pulpit… was elevated according to the custom which prevailed in those times of two-storied churches; and an…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"… Society Responsibilities increased with each elevation on the Grange ritual ladder. For example, all business conducted by local chapters was done…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"… as the two story building would have required an elevator. Ribbon Cutting at New Library Nona and Gardiner Young - 2 of the library's founding…"

Seashore Trolley Museum

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… centers, and to surround them with the most elevating influence. The Continental Paper Bag Company operated successfully until the depression of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"Raymond Hailey was elevated to the Vice President position with task of making Oxford profitable and ready to be placed back on the market."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… created, as their website states, "to improve and elevate the character of man". Their principles included elements of “Friendship, Love, and…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The mill put in an elevator so that grains could be loaded directly into the rail car. (More about the railroad arriving in Farmington.) During the…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… feet above high tide at the point of greatest elevation. Achieving the ramps to this grade required much fill. Building demolition, Lubec, ca."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… was fertile for crops, and the different kinds of elevations provided a variety of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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