Description: 1921 Sanborn Maps of Southwest Harbor and Manset showing dwellings, businesses, churches, roads. Key indicates building construction material, location of automatic sprinklers, number of stories, etc. Prominent businesses shown are John L. Stanley & Son, Fish Curing & Packing; John A. Hopkins, Fish Curing & Packing; Manset Coal Co., Addison Packing Co. Sardine Factory, Freeman Coal Co., Park Theatre Moving Pictures & Vaudeville, Dirigo and Claremont Hotels. Maps have been scanned and the image files are linked to this record. [show more]
Description: 2012 exhibit text: Immense Cottage for Samuel S. Fels Seal Harbor, ME, 1922 Pencil on tracing paper The Gerrish Collection, Northeast Harbor Library These studies of this large cottage exhibit his facility with the Shingle Style. This late commission for Savage (1922), exhibits all the typical Shingle Style elements manipulated to produce a very pleasing composition. The west facade is particularly pleasing with its rounded masonry terrace overlooking Seal Harbor. [show more]
Description: Photocopy of bequest of $1,000 to church for a fund to be known as the Mary B. Somes fund. Appears it may be a Congregational Church document
Description: Records of Somesville Union Church. Includes names of pastors from 1930-1954; deacons from 1932-1962; other officers; delegates; baptisms from 1931-1961; members received from 1876-1959; members removed from 1926-1959; news clippings about weddings in church (inside envelope); marriages from 1947-1954; Sunday School statistics; original by-laws (1914) and amendment (1930) suspending the Somesville Congregational Church and including it in the Somesville Meeting House Society. Also: notes about services, annual meetings, donors. [show more]
Description: Typewritten letter from Ordnance Officer, HQ, First Corps Area (Boston) responding to application for rifles and equipment for GAR Post; also Bond to Secure Return of Same.