Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"This classic shingle style home sits high above the Kennebec River town of Hallowell, Maine. Note the turret and open, rounded porch which are drawn…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"While Stevens continued to work in the Shingle Style into the twentieth century, the more formal Colonial Revival style came to dominate his work."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads and barrel staves, white oak capstan bars destined for Boston or…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… story structures with square-pitched cedar-shingled roofs. The ground floor had four windows, a 16’ X 18’ front room (which contained a Hampden…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… pine for ships' masts to the coastal cedar for shingles, Maine's forest land has been the source of the raw materials that has provided the…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm

"… bowling pin mill, two lumber mills, cedar mill, shingle mill, and a lath mill (lath are thin strips of wood used as a foundation for layering…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"They built sawmills to make boards, staves, and shingles needed for boats, dwellings, barns, fences, and barrels."

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Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Thomas favored the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival for his houses and the Romanesque Revival for his public and commercial buildings."

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

"… who figured importantly in the development of the shingle style of architecture. It had its own livery stable to help take guests to Caterpillar…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… had 150 men working with a daily output of 50,000 shingles and 15,000 other lumber. There were many crews working in the woods in the winter."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… seven schools, two starch factories, five shingle mills, 305 houses, 362 barns, and 71 miles of roads."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… working with a daily output of fifty thousand shingles and fifteen thousand different types of lumber a day."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… 1 cask of oil 1 bundle of bed springs 54 1/2 of shingles 15in 73 feet of boards 17 barrels of pot ashes 1 pair of wheels lamb, potato, fish, bread…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"Sometimes, shingles and short lumber were put on top of the rafts. Even today, 185 years later, the first dam bed logs can be spotted when the water…"

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

"… fishing trips, numerous photographs and even the shingle that hung outside “Saint Anthony’s Cottage,” her modest house in town."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He also shingled the King's Chapel in Boston, did work for John Hancock and built several Cambridge mansions."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… year in a large 3,200 sq ft, 5-bedroom, 3-bath, shingle-styled, two-story home designed by his uncle, Fred Savage, which is still located at 2…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"Tripp Lumber Dealer A. Jordan “ “ W. Pratt Shingle Mfg. Col. C. Harvey “ “ I.E. Thompson Millwright A. Morse Cabinet Maker W."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"It has a good roof with shingles. Thomas Macomber, the builder and founder of this building, made it to be a bank specifically."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… for small mills to produce lumber and shingles, shovel handles, grains from the grist mills, cheese and starch making facilities, and wool carding…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… shoes, toothpicks, bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles. While water provided the power, the forests and fields provided the…"

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

"This structure stands with two shingled towers, cradling a bridge made of steel cables. The Wire Bridge is a physical landmark, but the real appeal…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… sad in the sight of a grandson of a shipmaster shingling the roof of a summer cottage for his livelihood and there was something sadder in the…"