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You searched for: Date: 1990sSubject: StructuresType: Publication
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • 1994
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
"At inn overlooking the sea, tradition has a capital T" from The Globe and Mail - September 21, 1994 "Claremont spruces up for another century" from The Bar Harbor Times - August 18, 1994 "Visitor's guide to a lush Maine isle" from The New York Sunday Times -August 9, 1989 A write up by Charles C. Calhoun in MAINE - 1994 "An escape to Acadia Park when the crowds have gone" in The Inquirer "Edwardian Elegance, Regal Comfort" in The Times Record - August 30, 2002 [show more]
Bulfinch Anatomy of Antique China & Silver
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Silverware
  • Structures, Factory, Pottery
  • Forrest, Tim
  • 1998
Bulfinch Anatomy of Antique China & Silver
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
An introduction to "the silver and ceramic tablewares that have been used at the western dining table since the 16th century and to show the features that help identify their style, date, manufacturer, and country of origin."
Kovel’s Dictionary of Marks: Pottery & Porcelain 1650 - 1850
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Structures, Factory, Pottery
  • Kovel, Ralph & Terry
  • 1995
Description:
An identification guide to American, English, and European porcelain arranged by factory marks according to their shapes, e.g., letters or words or by shapes such as animals, circles, etc.
Newspaper article lamenting the closing of and history of Manset Post Office 1995
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • 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
  • 1995
Description:
Newspaper article by Bill Benson lamenting the closing of and history of Manset Post Office 1995
Petite Plaisance
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Agnes Bushell
  • July 1999
Petite Plaisance
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Marguerite Yourcenar with photographs of her home where she lived with her companion Grace Frick since 1950.
In search of another's garden
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Places, Garden
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1999
  • Bar Harbor
In search of another's garden
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
"Atlantique", Bar Harbor, Fred Savage designed home of Catherine and Robert Barrett is restored with landscape inspired by Beatrix Farrand. Article published in the Bangor Daily News, August 28-29, 1999.
Re-User Friendly
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Bonnie P. Sawyer
  • 1996
  • Bar Harbor
Re-User Friendly
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
"Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home.
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • August 1996
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Although their Mount Desert summer home was palatial in scale, the Rockefellers came to Seal Harbor each year to enjoy the simple life. This article describes their life.
Asticou: History of Inn and an Era
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Lodging Business
  • Other
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn
  • Katherine Barr
  • 1999
Asticou: History of Inn and an Era
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
A booklet containing the history of the Asticou Inn. It is dedicated to The Savage Family, Builders and Caring Innkeepers Through Three Generations.
First Class Mail
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1994
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island
First Class Mail
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.
One Man's Museum
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Meg Fernald
  • 1990
One Man's Museum
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The story of the Islesford Historical Museum.
Settling in Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Brooks Peters
  • 1992
Settling in Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
"Cedar Hedges" undergoes interior design transformation in the hands of Leta Austin Foster and her husband Ridgely; a Fred Savage designed house in Northeast Harbor.