Keywords: lewiston architecture
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Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings
"Coombs of Lewiston, practiced architecture from 1872 until his death in 1909. In 1891 he hired twenty- year-old Harry C."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections
"Maine Historical Society Coombs Brothers, Lewiston Stevens Architects (John Calvin Stevens et al.), Portland Frederick A."
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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs
"Wilkinson was born in Cornish in 1871, grew up in Lewiston, and graduated from Lewiston High School."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows
"He made an extensive photographic record of Lewiston architecture, using his pictures in lectures and publications to promote awareness of the city’s…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview
"… Maine architects and firms in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor, the database includes a wide selection of drawings for urban, coastal, and rural…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas
"Elmer Thomas graduated from Lewiston High School in 1882 and attended Wesleyan University for two years."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners
"… were added to the database overtime, most notably Lewiston-based Coombs Firm, ultimately growing to about 6,400 commissions by the year 2020."
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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…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database
"Search the Database The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database organizes and searches for items at the commission (project) level."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell
"… Bowdoin in 1937, he enrolled in the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design."
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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."
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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."
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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…"
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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."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies
"Biographies This site includes select biographies (listed at left) for database-represented architects and firms."
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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…"
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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."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Lewiston Journal article on Katahdin Iron Works
"Lewiston Journal article on Katahdin Iron Works Article on KIW This undated article from the Lewiston Journal was among John Martin's effects."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block
"The Lewiston train should have been there a long time before both of the other trains except there was a delay with their flatbeds staying on the…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel
"… Ellsworth, Bangor area; butchering, work for Rufus Prince, Mabelle Martin's death Lewiston Journal article on Katahdin Iron Works X"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… while Farmington’s resident looked to Lewiston as a broader source of cultural activities."