Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here.
Description: Five handwritten pages describing the founding, incorporation, early members and officers and early meetings of the MDI Historical Society. The Society was founded in 1931. The Society was founded for the purpose of maintaining a museum in the village of Somesville to educate, inform and benefit the public. Annual meeting activity from 1931-1935 is summarized.
Description: 20 scraps, clippings and pages of notes and submissions used in preparation of the Newsletter of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: Two copies of printed poster announcing "Somesville Day" sponsored by the Village Improvement Society and the Mount Desert Historical Society. Year not specified.
Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen.
Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society.
Description: Map on tissue paper drawn by assessor, Town of Mount Desert, Maine, and photocopy of map presumably drawn by MDI Historical Society of area in Somesville to include new museum building.
Description: Building Permit (one page) and Land Use Permit (one page) issued by the Town of Mount Desert, Maine, to the MDI Historical Society for construction of a new museum building in Somesville, ME.
Description: This Bar Harbor Times newspaper clipping describes plans for the construction of a new museum building by the MDI Historical Society. The building to be located on Rt. 102 at the intersection of Oak Hill Road in Somesville was designed by Roc Caivano. A photograph of four unnamed members of the Building Committee is included. Dated May 14, 1981.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Building Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1981
Description: Six pages of architectural drawings for planned MDI Historical Society building at State Route 102 and Oak Hill Rd, Somesville, Maine. Drawings include Title Page with General Conditions, Floor Plan, Section, South Elevation and Elevations.
Description: Two typewritten pages describing activity of the committee in the process of considering building a new museum building. A third typewritten sheet is a fragment of a report in which advantages and disadvantages of building a new museum are stated.
Description: Letter from Mrs. Alexander to Sanderson tendering her resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and explaining her discontent with the operation of this committee.
Description: Newspaper clipping from "Bangor Daily News" of July 13, 1981 describing construction of new museum building for the MDI Historical Society on Rte. 102 in Somesville. The building and its planned use are described.