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Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"Hotel Braeburn, Guilford, ca. 1910Guilford Historical Society The Braeburn Hotel was built on the site of the Turner House."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… place “alive with vehicles and tooters for the hotels, who swept them up in buckboards and whirled them at a gallop to their hotels.” -Harper’s New…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Ridlon built a hotel on this land, which soon housed a post office, store, and many houses to accomodate the influx of Italian, Lithuanian, Polish…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"… Charles was thrown into managing the family hotel business with his mother, Mabelle Strout Savage (1877-1965), at the young age of 19 when he was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"… 1800’s and early 1900’s saw the building of large hotels and many large summer “cottages”. This time period is sometimes referred to as the heyday…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"Impressive homes and a stellar hotel fill the city. In the 1960s an urban renewal proposal and a highway construction plan threatened to demolish…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"This station site used to be the Phair Hotel owned by James Phair. He sold the building and land to the B&A, who later tore down the home for the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"In the later years of the hotel, there were a few different businesses, such as the J.L. Douglas clothing store, and John O."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"… restaurant and meals being served in the various hotels. There was a physician (three in the summer), two dentists, an attorney and an architect."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Charles Bell and owned by the Forster Manufacturing Company. Tourists on their way to or from the Rangeley Lakes often stopped at the hotel (which…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… numbers of “agreeable luxuries” offered by hotels, in fashionable changes of clothing, masquerade balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"Augusta, ME: Burleigh & Flynt, 1909. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ A Great Hotel!"

Mt. Desert Island Hospital

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Rockland Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… Caroline Starbird Cate Sewall Steammill Frankfort Hotel Horsemanship Reuben Stetson Daniel Emery Jr."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Eight hotels were built. They included the Asticou Inn (1883), Indian Head (1887), Kimball House (1886), Rock End Hotel (1884), Roberts House (1883)…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"By the early 1870s, rusticators had plenty of hotels from which to choose, and by the early 1880s, many had built their own “cottages.” For the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… increased with each new summer season as many hotels offered more amenities and entertainments, and as cottagers initiated new activities, events…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"… the Lodge met in member Elijah Stearns’ Maine Hotel until 1839. The first building owned by the Lodge, erected in 1840, proved unsastisfactory and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… Seminary Institution, which moved to the Knox Hotel in 1838. Prison Corner, Thomaston, ca. 1871Thomaston Historical Society Benjamin Carr…"

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"… on Main Street in Pittsfield, the Stoddard House Hotel in Farmington, the Fiske Store in North Waterford, and the Lufkin and Noyes Building in West…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"… and Preble Streets prior to its expansion into a hotel in 1859. This photograph was taken between the completion of Mussey’s Row in 1852 and the…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"We had just moved into a hotel to help the people living there get through the storm. My wife was always tired and never slept."