Description: Front Street, unpaved, (now South Shore Road) looking east. Kimball House on left, Steven Smallidge farm just right of center, and St. Mary's wooden chapel in background.
Description: Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane ("Daisy") for her aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881 from which the window in St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor, was done.
Description: 4 blueprints, 5 blueprints stapled, 7 drawings loose. Gabled house with patterned shingles, columned piazza. Used by John Manchester III Inn. Stacy B. Lloyd, 1993. See also 0073 FLS (item 1072) and GHC 357 (item 2562)
Description: Signed share certificate in the Mt. Desert Reading-Room made out to Mason Campbell. The Reading-Room was predecessor of the Northeast Harbor Library.
Description: Sepia tone photograph (very faded) of the Rock End Hotel and in front of it the boat house and carpenter shop, In 2000 the site of the Northeast Harbor Fleet. Predates the walkway to Smallidge Point. See also Item 5282 Photograph owned by Mrs. Julia Manchester.
Description: Small booklet (8 pages) with sketches of floor plans; colored elevations. Includes a folder containing correspondence and slides from an exhibit of these plans at the Portland Museum of Art in 2004: "The Maine Perspective: Architectural Drawings, 1875-1925", which focused on Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival period.
Description: Photograph taken from the area of the Samuel Gilpatrick Homestead looking toward the Rock End Hotel, near Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor. In the foreground is Herman Savage's cottage, "The Wedge," designed by his architect brother, Fred L. Savage, in 1885. Two children stand on the side of the road, and an unidentified structure is visible beyond the hotel. In the distance, the northern shores of Great Cranberry Island can be seen. The Rock End Hotel was originally called the Revere House and was opened by Herman L. Savage in the summer of 1884. The Wedge was built by A. Torrey, a contractor from Southwest Harbor, in the winter of 1885-1886. The Rock End Hotel burned in March, 1942. The Wedge was purchased by the Roberts family and remodeled in 1944-45, following plans by Philadelphia architect Edmund Gilchrist. It remains a private residence today. [show more]
Description: A copy of the deed signing over property to be used for erection and maintenance of a church to be called "The Union Church of Northeast Harbor".
Description: Photograph taken from Kimball's dock looking toward Wheelwright point with US Navy vessel "Dolphin" center place. Photograph is very faded. This area is now called Clifton Dock.
Description: B/W Photograph, 6.5x4", viewed from top of Kimball House, of the original wood St. Mary's Church and "Magnum Donum" residence of Rev. William Doane.
Description: Advertising brochure showing the exterior of the original hotel, located in Asticou, ME, and smaller photographs of the Clover and Phillips cottages with people at entrances. Floor plans on the back.
Description: Taken from side field showing the Asticou Inn, cemetery, the Robert's cottage and other residences at the settlement. Copied by William Hocker.
Description: From Schoolhouse Ledge looking northeast at the Asticou Settlement with the Asticou Inn, Robert's House and residences owned by the Savage family, the Phillips family and others.
Description: The 2 blueprints are photographic prints of the building. Booklet with 4 elevations, 3 plans, and 2 coers. graphite, ink and washes on heavy xove paper.
Description: Original card painted by Margaret Herrison Doane (Daisy) for her Aunt Mary Spring Perkins, Christmas 1881. This design inspired the window in St. Mary's-by-the-sea. Accompanying is a Photograph copy of a paper written by Margaret Doane Fayerweather in 1955 about the history of the lighthouse window.
Description: Taken from harbor of the Asticou Inn, the Robert's Cottage and other homes in the Asticou settlement. Photograph courtesy of Richard Savage II, copied by William Hocker.