Description: Covers styles with minimal text and black and white photographs. Styles include: Spanish Colonial, Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial Revival, New England Colonial, Southern Colonial. French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Roman Classicism, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, Italian Villa, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque, Octagon, Chateau, Second Empire Easter Stick, Western Stick, Eastlake, Shingle, Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Beaux-Arts Clasicism, New-Classicism, Bungalow, Prairie, International, Art Deco, Art Moderne [show more]
Description: Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
Stevens, John Calvin II and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
Publisher:
Greater Portland Landmarks
Date:
1990
Description: A survey of architect Stevens's four decades of design taken from his photographs in albums, a change from the earlier line drawings. The primary photographer was Thomas Ellison. An introductory biographical essay was written by grandson John Calvin Stevens II.
Description: The author is an architectural historian and has gathered information about the architects and builders of hotels and cottages, along with their clients, beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to today. This work focuses on the work of William R. Emerson.
Description: How and why to explore an house's history using the setting, written records, oral and visual sources, and the home itself as resources. Also discusses the American dream of owning a home, construction techniques and materials, and more.
Description: Series of pamphlets, one for each named architect, inserted into red folder. Architects: Parris, Alexander Peabody and Stearns Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William Kent, Rockwell Chamberlain, Calvin Kimball, John Jr. Keely, Patrick C. Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley Lawrence, Ellis F. Longfellow, William Pitt Preble Rand, James H. Stanley, Freeman A. Wheelwright, Edmund M. Harrison, Wallace K. Dunton, Ebenezer Lord, Thomas M. Mullett Alfred B. Bassford, Asher B. Grain, Peter Sr. Also contains a Preliminary Historical Checklist of Landscape Architects in Maine by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. [show more]
Description: Copy of photo. Large brick house at least three stories with tower on the left. One chimney visible. Two dormers visible. Set on rocky slope in trees.
Description: Specifications (These specifications need to be cataloged individually into the computer.) Specifications for the Bar Harbor residence of Edgar Scott, C.L. Morang Store and Bar Harbor Fire Department are in Archival Box #49.
Description: A celebration of Southwest Harbor’s Heritage Past and Present was held at Harbor House. Ralph Stanley and Mary Jones of MDI historical society presented a slide show and lecture. This program is the culmination of a historic survey of Southwest’s historic resources.