Description: ...This view shows the small hotel perched on the bare granite summit of the mountain...The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain...." - Steam to the Summit: The GreenMountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005...This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The GreenMountain House, when the GreenMountain Railway was built in 1883...
Description: ...From 1883 to 1890 a cog railway ran up the slopes of today's Cadillac Mountain; the railway was the inspiration of Francis (Frank) Clerque...
Description: ...The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain..."Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging...." - Steam to the Summit: The GreenMountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005...This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The GreenMountain House, when the GreenMountain Railway was built in 1883...
Description: Tracks toward Eagle Lake, from a point not far below the summit, near where the summit road crosses the Ry [sic] site for 2nd time, going down. Ballard notes indicate this negative was from M. Clement. This negative is probably a Ballard made copy of an early photo (1880-1910) by an unknown photographer.
Description: ...Francis Hector Clergue built the GreenMountain House in 1883, adjacent to the old Mountain House on the summit of GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain..., to, serve patrons of his GreenMountain Railway, a cog railroad, which chugged up the mountain from Eagle Lake...The burning of a hotel on GreenMountain, Mount Desert, in the evening, was plainly seen from Belfast, at a distance of fifty miles.” – “History of the...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Date:
1961
Description: ...Desert Island during WW II, 2) village of Town Hill, 3) development of buildings on Green [later Cadillac] Mountain, 4)GreenMountain Railway and connecting...
Description: ...Bar Harbor from Summit of GreenMountain 2. Great Head and Newport Sands 3. Schooner Head 4. GreenMountain Railway, 500 Feet Grade 5...GreenMountain Railway Station at Base of GreenMountain 10. Summit House on GreenMountain 11. Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake 12. Eagle Lake 13...GreenMountain Railway, - The Gulch 15. Otter Cliffs 16. View from Otter Cliff 17. Bar Harbor...