Description: A rare view of the Stanley House from the water. The shoreline with water, rocks, and trees are in the foreground with the only the roof and upper stories of the hotel visible in the backbround.
Description: The Stanley House hotel was destroyed by fire in 1927. This was the second Stanley House hotel - the first burned in 1884. The Stanley House hotel in Manset, Southwest Harbor, Maine. Black and white
Description: This is the first Stanley House hotel. The hotel was built in 1875 and burned in 1884. The hotel was rebuilt, but again burned in 1927. The Stanley House hotel in Manset, Southwest Harbor, Maine. People Depicted: Sans Stanley, Willette Mitchell Black and white
Description: Bessie Noyes is sitting on the steps, second step up, 6th from the left. Audrey Emeline Dolliver (1897-1985) is on the steps in the exact center of this photograph.
Description: The grey shingled building to the left of center, on the shore, with a sign on its peak is Albert Bartlett's sail loft. "…there was a good deal of shipbuilding going on, the sail loft owned and operated by Albert Bartlett made the sails for the new ships and there was considerable traffic in fish." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 103 - 1938.
Description: This photograph shows the original hotel decorated with flags and bunting, probably for the Fourth of July. One of the turrets from the Durgain house is visible.