Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and large yachts, providing quick service to chefs who had placed their order earlier by…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… architects, on often vast acreages, these summer "cottages" were built to provide generous seasonal experiences for their families and friends from…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… luxury and privacy and built their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage. From here on until the mid 1960s, the Savage family and neighborhood of Asticou dove…"

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

"… Rockefellers, Sears, and Vanderbilts—these cottages were magnificent summer homes. Wabanaki Indians (especially Passamaquoddies and Penobscots)…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"Henry Hatch Family, 1991. Summer Cottages: 1890-1930, Earl G. Shettleworth Jr. Published by the Islesboro Historical Society, 1989."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Louis. These families put up summer “cottages,” mansions that rivaled the finest on the mainland. With the establishment of Islesboro’s summer…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… Summer Resorts (Recreation), Businesses/Cottage Industries (Land Use), Water Transportation (Transportation), and Early Settlements (Settlements)…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… consisted of a steamboat wharf, two dozen small cottages, a lumber mill, a brickyard, and a coal, as well as several small stores."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"The summer school was often kept by some of the inhabitants’ daughters. The first schools were held in rooms of houses within the district, the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… 17 of 1933, amidst much controversy between the summer and year-round residents, the Legislature repealed the 1913 law, which opened up the island…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"Savage in the late 1800s as a summer rental cottage and located farther inland, north along Rye Field Lane on or near the present-day site of the Old…"

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

"Wealthy families including the Vanderbilts, Astors, Rockefellers and Fords spent their summers on MDI."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Guests who wanted to build summer cottages of their own began buying plots of land from Sweet. In 1908, the homestead was torn down."

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"During the 1960s and 1970s, Ellsworth's commercial development provided employment opportunities for many of its Surry neighbors. Various cottage…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… offered more amenities and entertainments, and as cottagers initiated new activities, events, and social clubs: Enter the horse show? Dress up for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… including Rodick House at the corner of Main and Cottage streets. Established in 1866 and twice expanded, it had become Maine’s largest and most…"

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

"… some 20,000 “summer people”—both visitors and cottagers. Its gilded age had arrived, with Bar Harbor’s reputation as one of the most fashionable…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"They wanted their own cottages. And these cottages were not rustic bungalows. They were 60-room mansions with clipped lawns and formal gardens…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards Kennebunkport. Thursday Club program, Biddeford…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… during the renovation and expansion of Harbor Cottage, the Old Ell was removed from the southerly side of Harbor Cottage and relocated down the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… on the island, and soon enough million-dollar cottages started appearing across the landscape. The final push was when Acadia National Park was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… natives at the bottom and wealthy, aristocratic cottage owners at the top. As the tribes struggled to get by without sacrificing their rich…"

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

"… the early years of the twentieth century, upscale cottages were built along the shore. In 1913, Josiah Newton Davidson, a Pittsburgh banker and…"