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You searched for: Date: 1900sSubject: StructuresSubject: Commercial
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Joy Building, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1904
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Joy Building, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
People outside the Joy Building in Northeast Harbor, "Northeast Harbor Laundry - Manchester Bros."
A. Bird Cough, Fine Groceries and Provisions
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • 1902-08-12
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
A. Bird Cough, Fine Groceries and Provisions
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Envelope advertising the Stanley House sent from Manset Post Office 1905
Tremont Historical Society
  • Other, Advertising Envelope
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Manset, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postage
  • Other, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Stamps
  • Other, Stanley House
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging
  • 8/22/1905
Description:
Envelope advertising the Stanley House sent from Manset Post Office 1905
Rock End Hotel Publicity
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • ca. 1909
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Rock End Hotel Publicity
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Small brochure from the Rock End Hotel following enlargement. Scenes of the south from the hotel porch, two Maine Central Ferry Boats passing in front of hotel, and row boats on the shore of Jordan Pond. Belle Smallidge Collection
Wedding Party at Rock End Hotel
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • 1904
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Wedding Party at Rock End Hotel
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Wedding party. Women in white dresses with flowered hats, men in black tuxedoes. Outside, next to ivy-covered home.
Asticou Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • ca. 1901
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Asticou Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The carriage driver is George A. Savage, owner of Inn.
Harbourside Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Isaac T. Moore
  • ca. 1900
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Harbourside Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
One horse hitch, driver, horse and buckboard. Shows porch removed in 1970's. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Cranberry Lodge at the Asticou Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Projection, Architectural Drawing
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Lodge
  • Fred L. Savage
  • 1900
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Cranberry Lodge at the Asticou Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Completed in 1855, renovated in 1898.
Montage of Northeast Harbor Places
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Montage of Northeast Harbor Places
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Main Street looking south, the Clifton Hotel and the Asticou Inn. Original loaned to William Hocker by Richard M. Savage II.
The Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • early 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Postmarked 1909.
Kimball House, North East Harbor, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Garden
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • early 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Kimball House, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Cards picked up by Alfred T. Coulombe when he (age about 14) came to Northeast Harbor one summer with his father and uncles to build some houses the 1920 (about). They came by schooner which they lived in -probably anchored in the Sound or Northeast Harbor.
Clifton House, Northeast Harbor, ME
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • early 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Clifton House, Northeast Harbor, ME
Northeast Harbor Library
Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1890's-1900's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Who Says Automobiles: Interesting Letters from Many Summer Resort People Information Sheet, c. 1908
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • Other
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1908 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
An information sheet comprised of the opinions of hoteliers in resort towns regarding automobiles being allowed in their communities. The original request, made by W. M. Roberts, was to gain insight from the experiences of others ahead of the issue being discussed during Bar Harbor's annual town meeting. People Mentioned: W. M. Roberts, Edward S. Marshall, H. W. Staples, C. H. Greenleaf, Damon Winfield Jr., John Anderson, A. E. Reynolds, W. K. Hill, F. C. Sheldon, H. S. Mudgett, W. S. Cummings, N. J. Murphy, W. E. Carter, G. H. Brackett, Dave H. Morris, A. L. Westgard, C. W. Bickford, L. H. Cilley, P. E. Naylor, G. W. Stearns, James Cunningham, William P. Whitehouse, Edgar Jay Sherman, Frank T. Tyler [show more]
Island Herald
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 8/12/1904
  • Mount Desert Island
Island Herald
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Local newspaper published every Friday in summer months. Features individual and community events in Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor. This issue includes the history of Jordan Pond House.
Island Herald
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Structures, Commercial, Restaurant
  • 8/14/1903
  • Acadia National Park, Jordan Pond
Island Herald
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Weekly newspaper published in the summer months. This edition features an article on the Jordan Pond House.
Bar Harbor Life, August 26, 1905
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Recreation
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Haskins, George M.
  • 1905-08-26
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bar Harbor Life, August 26, 1905
Jesup Memorial Library
Description:
Society edition of The Bar Harbor Record from August 26, 1905 with articles on a recent horse exhibition, parties and other social events, news from Northeast Harbor, and a fictional travel diary from China. Several advertisements are included as well. People Mentioned: Edgar C. Abbott, Lyman Abbott, C. S. Abercrombee, Mrs. C. S. Abercrombee, Elizabeth J. Acton, Mrs. Thatcher M. Adams, Thatcher M. Adams, Thomas Adams, Arthur D. Addison, Francis J. Allanson, Frederick Allen, J. Milton Allen, O'G. Allmand, John de Koven Alsop, Larz Anderson, Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. Nicholas L. Anderson, Mrs. W. F. Angus, W. F. Angus, George Appleby, Mrs. George Appleby, Ann Archbold, Norman Armour, E. E. Auchincloss, Mrs. M. C. Audenreid, Mrs. A. M. Baker, O. M. Baker, M. M. Balethe, Lalph Ballard, Hugo Baring, Mrs. S. D. Barron, S. D. Barron, Llewellyn Barry, Waldron Bates, M. A. Bayley, N. E. Baylies, Mrs. H. S. B. Beale, Truxton Beale, E. E. Beebe, Mrs. J. A. Beebe, J. W. Bell, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, W. C. Benedict, H. B. Berry, K. V. R. Berry, Edward Bettens, Mrs. L. E. Bettens, Thomas J. Bettens, Anna Wheelen Betts, Fred Betts, Mrs. W. W. Betts, Mrs. R. P. Birchoff, R. P. Birchoff, Mrs. W. B. Blackwell, W. B. Blackwell, Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Blair, W. P. Blake, Mrs. William H. Bliss, William H. Bliss, Mrs. M. M. Bollou, Mrs. J. S. Bosworth, Mrs. T. J. Bowlker, T. J. Bowlker, G. Boyajian, N. Boyajian, A. Brady, Joseph Bridgham, Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgham, Deborah Brock, Harold Brown, S. A. M. Brown, S. E. Brown, Mrs. S. S. Bryan, S. S. Bryan, Brinton Buckwalter, Henry Budd, Mrs. Henry Budd, Logan Bullitt, D. Wellington Bunker, G. W. Burman, Nancy Bush, Thomas J. Bush, Alfred Butes, Dorothy Butes, Mrs. Alfred Butes, William Allen Butler III, J. Albert Butler, Mary M. Butler, Mrs. Harry L. Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler, W. Butler, Mrs. Cass Canfield, James Carey, Mrs. W. A. Carpenter, W. A. Carpenter, John W. Carroll Jr., H. F. Chace, John Chadwick, Louis C. Child, Anna M. Clarke, H. A. Clay, Harold H. Cleaves, L. Sherman Cleaves, Mrs. A. M. Coats, William F. Cochran, Gifford A. Cockran, Mary Roberts Coles, Mrs. Edward Coles, J. B. Colgan, Mrs. J. B. Colgan, Fred R. Comee, W. H. Conyngham, A. D. Cook, Mrs. A. D. Cook, Mrs. Charles W. Cooper, D. Page Cottan, Paul D. Cravath, Annie Crosby, Flora B. Croseley, A. E. Cummins, William D. Curtis, Mrs. Edwin C. Cushman, Mrs. Walter Dabney, S. R. Dabney, Mrs. Charles Daniels, Charles Davis Jr., Charles Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Harold H. Davis, James H. Davis, N. F. Davis, Pauline Davis, R. Davis, Suzette Davis, W. Davis, Nathlie De Castro, Frederick de Peyster, Katherine Deering, Mrs. A. E. Deering, I. M. Devlin, Mrs. I. M. Devlin, Charles D. Dickey, Mrs. Charles D. Dickey, G. G. Dinsmore, J. Donnelly, Mrs. William P. Douglas, Sybil Douglas, William P. Douglas, Mrs. Henry E. Drayton, Mrs. T. C. Dugan, H. Dumont, Mrs. H. Dumont, A. Butler Duncan, E. Dutilth, Mrs. A. R. Edey, Mrs. J. Pierrepont Edwards, Richard M. Elliot, Mrs. Rudolph Ellis, Rudolph Ellis, Grace Elliston, L. A. Emery, Mrs. L. A. Emery, H. C. Emmet Jr., Henry C. Emmet, Jeannie Emmet, Laura Emmet, Marie Louise Emmet, Mrs. Henry C. Emmet, Watson C. Emmet, Gladys Endicott, Mrs. Robert Endicott, Robert Endicott, Mrs. Henry Lane Eno, Lydia Eustis, Robert D. Evans, W. P. Evans, Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbri, Eliot Farley, Mrs. Charles Farrelly, S. E. Findlay, Edward Fisher, Augustus Franzen, John Frazer, Mrs. Persifor Frazier, Helen Frith, L. Edward Frith, Louise Frith, C. Frost, Mrs. P. R. Frothingham, P. R. Frothingham, E. B. Fuller, Mrs. E. B. Fuller, J. Austin Furfey, William Garrett, Elizabeth Gilman, Mrs. Henry Glover, George Gould, Mrs. George Gould, C. P. Grayson, E. G. Grob, Ed Grossman, B. S. Guiness, J. Gunderson, A. D. Haddad, L. Haddad, John A. Hadden Jr., Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin, P. P. G. Hall, R. B. Hall, Mrs. Harry Hamlin, Carl Haner Jr., John H. Hanna, Mrs. John H. Hanna, Charles Hargrove, C. C. Harrison, Dorothy Harrison, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Mrs. John Harrison, Mrs. T. S. Harrison, T. S. Harrison, E. M. Hastings, James Hawes, Mrs. G. P. Hawes, J. Hayden Jr., Mrs. John B. Henderson, Elsie Henry, Robert Higgins, J. B. Hillard, Mrs. J. B. Hillard, C. Lee Hillyard, C. Hittell, Mrs. J. Holland, Mrs. John Holman, John Hone, John B. Hood, M. G. Hooper, Louis Hosmer, F. T. Howard, Mrs. F. T. Howard, George Howe, Isabella Howland, Mrs. Thomas H. Hubbard, Thomas H. Hubbard, S. Huguenin, J. J. Hull, R. W. E. Hunt, W. R. Huntington, William DeWitt Hyde, Henderson Inches, Louise B. Inches, A. W. Ingersoll, C. E. Ingersoll, Harry Ingersoll, J. H. W. Ingersoll, Mrs. C. E. Ingersoll, Sturgis Ingersoll, Susie Ingersoll, J. Irjens, Mrs. C. Olive Iselin, Mrs. Thomas Jackson, Lucy Jacobs, Mrs. A. E. Janapolski, F. A. Jellison, Morris K. Jesup, Francis Howe Johnson, Mrs. Francis Howe Johnson, S. Johnson, E. R. Johnstone, Hinton Jones, Roy H. Jones, J. I. Kane, George Karst, M. T. Kavanagh, Mrs. M. T. Kavanagh, Mrs. O. L. Keene, O. L. Keene, C. Keller, Dorothy Kelley, Anderson Kelly, Mrs. Anderson Kelly, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, Mrs. S. H. Kerbaugh, S. H. Kerbaugh, Mrs. S. Kerr, J. L. Ketterlinus, Charles A. Keucher, W. T. Kimball, David James King, G. G. King, Mrs. H. M. Kinsley, Wilfried C. Klamroth, Mrs. W. P. Knapp, W. P. Knapp, Harry C. Ladd, May Ladd, Susan Ladd, Lucius S. Landreth, E. M. Larkin, F. F. Larkin, Francis Lathrop, Marion Lawrence, Mrs. A. R. Lawrence, Mrs. William Lawrence, Elizabeth J. Lea, Francis J. Lea, Mrs. George H. Lea, P. Lee, Mrs. James Leeds, Mrs. Warner M. Leeds, Samuel W. Levis, Alfred Holmes Lewis, Mary I. Lewis, Mrs. Francis A. Lewis, Mrs. Philip Livingston, Philip Livingston, Sue Logan, F. L. Lombard, S. S. Lombard, W. B. Lord, Mrs. Arthur Lund, Frances Lurman, Gustav Lurman, Katherine Lurman, Mrs. Gustav Lurman, Fred C. Lynam, Mrs. I. C. Lyon, W. H. Macey, Mrs. George H. Mackay, Pauline Mackay, A. W. Martin, Mrs. E. Wallace Matthews, Frederic May, E. H. McCullough, Mrs. E. H. McCullough, J. Frank McFadden, T. A. McIntire, Emory McMichael, Mrs. Walter McMichael, Mrs. P. H. McMilan, Edward B. Mears, Mrs. Edward B. Mears, Otto Merkel, George S. Merriam, Douglass Merritt, A. Meserole, Mrs. J. V. Meserole, Stephanie Metz, J. Michael, Mrs. J. Michael, Mrs. Foster Miliken, E. Tripp Miller, George N. Miller, Helen L. R. Miller, Katherine C. Miller, Mrs. George N. Miller, Mrs. J. W. Miller, Harriet Mills, Weymer Joy Mills, C. Mitchell, Mrs. G. H. Morgan, Edward Morrell, Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris, Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, C. W. Morse, Glenn Tilley Morse, G. L. Murphy, D. J. Neeman, Florence Neilson, Mrs. Robert Neilson, M. J. Nenson, Dorothy B. Netting, George H. Netting, L. G. Niles, Dorothea Norris, Charles Norris, C. T. Nortemann, Eleanor R. Norton, Gertrude Norton, Gustavus Ober Jr., Frances Ogden, H. J. Orr, Mrs. E. A. Osgood, Amy Otis, Mrs. Frank Otis, Howard Page, Mrs. Howard Page, Alfred Palmer, Mrs. Alfred Palmer, George S. Patterson, Mrs. George S. Patterson, Effie Pearson, Mrs. George L. Pease, George Wharton Pepper, George Perkins, Mrs. C. L. Perkins, Robert F. Phifer, Mrs. Amos R. E. Pinchot, Mrs. A. E. Platt, Mrs. R. W. Pomeroy, R. W. Pomeroy, H. Kirke Porter, Mrs. H. Kirke Porter, Laura J. Post, Jack Potter, Mrs. James Potter, R. S. Potter, Cornelia Prime, J. D. Prince Jr., J. D. Prince, Mrs. J. D. Prince, Mrs. J. V. L. Pruyn, Joseph Pulitzer, G. Purviance Jr., Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne, Percy Rivington Pyne, Madeline Rafter, J. L. Rand, Margaret Rand, Mrs. Arthur Randolph, Mrs. Samuel C. Reed, Samuel C. Reed, T. Chesley Richardson Jr., Mrs. T. C. Richardson, T. C. Richardson, John J. Ridgway, Mrs. John J. Ridgway, C. E. Riggs, Mrs. C. E. Riggs, Edw. H. Ripley, Mrs. E. H. Ripley, Caryl Robert, C. Roberts, Graham Roberts, Mrs. C. H. Roberts, J. A. Robin, Mrs. Moncure Robinson, T. G. Rosengarten, H. S. Ross, Maurice C. Rumsey, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin, William Jay Schieffelin, J. J. Scott, Elizabeth Seaton, Baroness de Saint Seigne, F. R. Senneckson, Mrs. William F. Sheehan, William F. Sheehan, Mrs. Gardiner Sherman, John B. Shober, Mrs. John B. Shober, William Siminson, E. H. Simons, E. E. Skinner, Mrs. E. E. Skinner, Fisher Sloane, F. O. Small, C. J. Smidth, R. Smiley, Armide Smith, Everett P. Smith, Horace Smith, J. Emlen Smith, M. L. Smith, Mary D. Smith, Mrs. Horace Smith, Mrs. J. Emlen Smith, Mrs. M. C. S. Smith, Rhoda Emlen Smith, Llewellyn Randolph Snowden, Amos Sperce, H. B. Sprague, A. Stafford, George Stafford, L. E. Sterns, Annie B. Sterrett, Emma J. Sterrett, L. S. Stevens, William Rhinelander Stewart Jr., William Rhinelander Stewart, Horace Stokes, W. F. Storm, A. Frost Strout, Frank Sturgis, Mrs. Frank Sturgis, J. F. Sweet, C. F. A. Tabbott, Eleanor Tabbott, Mrs. J. Talfree, Louise Taylor, Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, A. M. Tenney, Addison Thayer, Mrs. Addison Thayer, C. C. Thomas, J. C. Thompson, Mrs. Augustus Thorndike, J. S. Thorpe, C. L. Tibbetts, Mrs. C. L. Tibbetts, George Tohor, Aileen Tone, Anita Tone, Esther Tone, Katherine Tone, Mrs. S. J. Torrance, M. E. Torrey, Eugene Townsend, F. E. Townsend, May Townsend, Mrs. F. E. Townsend, Mrs. C. J. Train, Mrs. Charles R. Train, C. Trask, C. C. Trowbridge, L. S. Tuckerman, Mrs. L. S. Tuckerman, George E. Turnure, Mrs. George E. Turnure, Frederick Van Tine, Harold Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Emeline G. Vernam, W. H. N. Voss, E. E. Waples, Booker T. Washington, Arthur Weeks, Mrs. Francis L. Wellman, Mrs. Arthur Welman, Allen West, Theo. S. West, Joseph A. Whitaker, A. White, Mrs. William R. White, William R. White, Charles A. Whiting, Helen Hay Whitney, Mary Whitney, Payne Whitney, William C. Whitney, J. F. Whittaker, Eliza C. Whyte, Louisa Hollingsworth Whyte, Mrs. Lucius K. Wilmerding, G. Wilson, M. A. Wilson, Margaret Wingate, Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop, Julia Wise, Adolph G. Wolf, D. T. Worden, Mrs. D. T. Worden, Julian Wright, Fanny Young, G. Young [show more]
Asticou Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • ca. 1900
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Asticou Inn
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Showing north side and front of Asticou Inn with horse-drawn carriage at entrance.
Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • early 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, Maine.
The First Masonic Hall - The Clark Point Road from Main Street
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures
  • 1909 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
From the right to left: Hattie B. Savage's Millinery & Dry Goods Store Liston Smith's "Live Yankee" general store A.L. Gilley's Barber Shop Dr. R. J. Lemont's residence and drug store Stephen Harmon's general store William Tower's residence The small building on the left may be Seth W. Norwood's law office - later P.L. Sargent's house The livery stable shown in SWHPL 5184 is just visible on the left. [show more]
Sea Side Inn, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine,
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • 1907-11-14
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Description:
Mailed to: Mrs. J.A. Freeman S.W. Harbor, Me. Signed: Abbie
Ocean House, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1905-08-25
  • Southwest Harbor
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Ocean House, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Mailed to: Mr. William H. Rea Pembroke, Me. From: Lottie R. King
Clifton House Hotel, Northeast Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1907
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Clifton House Hotel, Northeast Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Ocean House Hotel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1907 c.
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Ocean House Hotel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
This photograph shows the enlarged hotel. Postcard is dated 1908 and seems verified by the clothes of the people on the porch.
Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject." [show more]