Almira T. (Verrill) Dix and Captain Charles B. Dix House
Reference
Structures, Dwellings, House
Tremont, Bass Harbor
5 Stable Lane
In addition to the house, the "Dix Family Stable" is at 5 Stable Lane. It in on the National Register of Historic Places and was designed by an unknown architect in the Queen Anne Style. Its "Period of Significance" is listed as 1875-1899 with 1890 as the significant year.
Almira T. (Verrill) Dix and Captain Charles B. Dix House
Item:
13230
Type:
Reference
Subject:
Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
ME
Address:
5 Stable Lane
Description: In addition to the house, the "Dix Family Stable" is at 5 Stable Lane. It in on the National Register of Historic Places and was designed by an unknown architect in the Queen Anne Style. Its "Period of Significance" is listed as 1875-1899 with 1890 as the significant year.
The house on the right was the Osborne Milton & Wilford Howard Kittredge house - and the church on the horizon is the Tremont Congregational Church. The dam caused the marsh to flood, which encouraged salt hay to grow. The dam was opened at harvest time.
Description: The house on the right was the Osborne Milton & Wilford Howard Kittredge house - and the church on the horizon is the Tremont Congregational Church. The dam caused the marsh to flood, which encouraged salt hay to grow. The dam was opened at harvest time.
Lyle Arlington Reed's store was opened in about 1945 in Bass Harbor. It was a general grocery and meat store and, later, a small lunch area for the nearby factory workers was added. Lyle sold the building to Dr. Channing H. Washburn of Bass Harbor who turned the building into a residence. - Information from Elsie V. (Reed) Lunt, Mrs. Clarence L. Lunt - Interview 09/22/10. "McKinley – The building on the Shore Road owned by Lyle Reed has been completed and the store will be opened in connection with his taxi business." The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, May 28, 1947.
Description: Lyle Arlington Reed's store was opened in about 1945 in Bass Harbor. It was a general grocery and meat store and, later, a small lunch area for the nearby factory workers was added. Lyle sold the building to Dr. Channing H. Washburn of Bass Harbor who turned the building into a residence. - Information from Elsie V. (Reed) Lunt, Mrs. Clarence L. Lunt - Interview 09/22/10. "McKinley – The building on the Shore Road owned by Lyle Reed has been completed and the store will be opened in connection with his taxi business." The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, May 28, 1947. [show more]
Description: Photographers have long been fascinated by the Acadia Night Sky. Willis H. Ballard photographed Bass Harbor Head Light one night in October, 1948.
Eben Clark’s house was destroyed by fire circa 1922. It had been closed for the winter. Ruth Carroll Kittredge (1907-2004), later Mrs. Morris Augustus Dolliver, was 15 years old when it burned. “My grandfather woke up one morning with bright light coming in the bedroom window. The house was all ablaze.” - Interview with Ruth Carroll (Kittredge) Dolliver, Mrs. Morris A. Dolliver (1907-2004), conducted by Tina Baker on January 30, 1998. Ruth’s grandfather was Osborne Milton Kittredge (1844-1928). Ruth and her family lived with him in his house near the Marsh Bridge in Bass Harbor at 122 Tremont Road (Route 102), Tremont, Maine, Tax Map 15 – Lot 2, across the road from the Eben Clark house.
Description: Eben Clark’s house was destroyed by fire circa 1922. It had been closed for the winter. Ruth Carroll Kittredge (1907-2004), later Mrs. Morris Augustus Dolliver, was 15 years old when it burned. “My grandfather woke up one morning with bright light coming in the bedroom window. The house was all ablaze.” - Interview with Ruth Carroll (Kittredge) Dolliver, Mrs. Morris A. Dolliver (1907-2004), conducted by Tina Baker on January 30, 1998. Ruth’s grandfather was Osborne Milton Kittredge (1844-1928). Ruth and her family lived with him in his house near the Marsh Bridge in Bass Harbor at 122 Tremont Road (Route 102), Tremont, Maine, Tax Map 15 – Lot 2, across the road from the Eben Clark house. [show more]