Description: Section of a blue print showing Pretty Marsh on MDI. Handwritten notes related to plot sales. Marked "Property Map Town of Mount Desert Hancock County Main prepared by James W. Sewall." Shows several plots on Indian Point Road and has handwritten numbers and the names Stephen Dexter Smith to Ansel L. Manchester and Richard Smith to Stephen Dexter Smith 1871. Scale: 1 inch=500 feet
Description: Magazine issue with article dedicated to Skylands home in Seal Harbor Maine, formerly Ford home built in 1939, includes photographs. September 2000 page 256
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.
Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the National Park Service
Date:
1999
Description: Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials
Description: Newsclipping: “Century Old Somesville Building, Former Post Office, to be Razed”. Previously accessioned as **0635, also as Object Id 011.FIC.67.1
Description: Newsclipping: “Davis Wasgatt House and Richardson Homestead on Beech Hill” photograph. Previously accessioned as **0692, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1
Description: Newsclipping: “Homes of James Richardson and J.G. Richardson Homestead on Beech Hill” photograph. Previously accessioned as **0695, Object Id 011.FIC.76.1
Description: Looking back at city from harbor. Wide street runs through middle of photo from harborside. Two three-masted schooners in port to the right. Three church steeples rise in background above city. To the left sign above building reads, “Washburn [?] flour.” Harbor unidentified; no date.
Description: Color Photo of plaque memorializing the first Town House built in Eden. It was built in 1842 and razed in 1931. The memorial was erected in 1932. The back of the photograph is marked "This plaque is one of the few reminders that this area was once the center of Mt. Desert Island Business." -Connee Jellison
Description: Variety of Company Supply Catalogs from Fred Savage’s business, paint, stucco, drywall, plumbing, finish work etc. Folder 1; Plumbing fixtures, Trenton Potteries, Standard Sinks, Day-Ward, Cahill Iron Works, Western Metal Supply Co., Locke, Stevens & Co., J. L. Mott Folder 2: Advertising Brochure with Hotels, The DeGregoire, The Louisburg, the Malvern, The Rockaway, The Newport House, The Belmont, The St Sauveur, The New Florence Folder 3a/3b: Paint Brochures, Murphy Varnish, S.C. Johnson, Devoe, I. Lappin, Marine Tocolith, Benjamin Moore, Valspar, Patterson-Sargeant, Northern Manufacturing, Symentrex, Nico, Blanchite, Trus-Con, Koncreto, Dutch Boy, Berry Bros.,Glidden, Painting Machine Co., Edward Smith, National Lead, Nico, Trus-Con, S. C. Johnson, Patterson-Sargent, Hascall's, Monument Plaster Folder 4: Machinery, Chas. J. Jager, C.W. Hunt, Clinton Wire Cloth, Fairbanks Company, General Compressed Air House Cleaning Co., Rider-Ericcson Engine Co., Vacuum Hpuse Cleaning Co., General Electric, Hunther Bros, Quimby, Gilbert & Barker Folder 5: Lath, Decorative Iron and Concrete Reinforcement, Berger, Trussed Concrete and Steel Co.,Clinton Wire Cloth Co., Lignine Carvings, Roebling Construction, E. T. Barnum, Henry Weyand, Shreve Crump and Low, Phoenix Wire Works, Vulcan, Newport Rolling Mill Folder 6: Hardware Specialties, Lane Brothers, Buffalo Fertilizers, Union Fibre Co., Harvey Hubble, Hill Dryer [show more]