26 - 38 of 38 results
You searched for: Type: is exactly 'Reference'✖Place: Bar Harbor✖
Refine Your Search
Refine Your Search
Subject
Type
  • Reference
Place
Date
  • none
Tags
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
12968Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Bar Harbor
Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing
Item:
  • 12968   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
12992The Ovens
Cathedral Rock
  • Reference
  • Places
  • Bar Harbor
The Ovens
Cathedral Rock
Item:
  • 12992   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13020Bar Harbor Casino
  • Reference
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Casino
Item:
  • 13020   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Other Structures
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13021A. Bird Cough Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Bar Harbor
"A. Bird Cough [Adoniram Bird Cough] has opened a most attractive store at 26 Cottage Street. The store is stocked with a fine line of groceries and the usual vegetable lines." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A. Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south side of Cottage Street, a site occupied by Cadillac Mt. Sports in 2013.
A. Bird Cough Store
Item:
  • 13021   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
"A. Bird Cough [Adoniram Bird Cough] has opened a most attractive store at 26 Cottage Street. The store is stocked with a fine line of groceries and the usual vegetable lines." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A. Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south side of Cottage Street, a site occupied by Cadillac Mt. Sports in 2013. [show more]
13023Kennedy Cottage - Kenarden
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Bar Harbor
Kennedy Cottage - Kenarden
Item:
  • 13023   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13027Porcupine Hotel
Hotel Florence
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels.
Porcupine Hotel
Hotel Florence
Item:
  • 13027   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
“…the…Hotel Porcupine, later the Florence (1887; burned, 1918), a Main Street, five-story rectangular block with Shingle-style features and a strong sense of verticality represented by its stacked window bays, bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the Bar Harbor hotels. [show more]
13042Robin Hood Park
  • Reference
  • Places
  • Bar Harbor
Robin Hood Park
Item:
  • 13042   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13162Musgrave Tea Tower
  • Reference
  • Structures, Tower
  • Bar Harbor
  • 30 Atlantic Ave
A landmark along the Shore Path was the Musgrave Tea Tower. In 1881, New York banker Thomas Musgrave built Edgemere, a Shingle-style cottage designed by William R. Emerson. Five years later he added a second cottage, Mare Vista, to his property. Musgrave's tower contained a second-floor tearoom and an attached bowling alley and dance hall." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 50. The Musgrave Tea Tower was built by Thomas Bateson Musgrave (1831-1903) and his wife, Frances 'Fannie' Eleanor (Jones) Musgrave. Archivists researching the life of the Musgraves embark upon a sea of stories combining opulence, litigation and controversy.
Musgrave Tea Tower
Item:
  • 13162   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Tower
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 30 Atlantic Ave
Description:
A landmark along the Shore Path was the Musgrave Tea Tower. In 1881, New York banker Thomas Musgrave built Edgemere, a Shingle-style cottage designed by William R. Emerson. Five years later he added a second cottage, Mare Vista, to his property. Musgrave's tower contained a second-floor tearoom and an attached bowling alley and dance hall." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 50. The Musgrave Tea Tower was built by Thomas Bateson Musgrave (1831-1903) and his wife, Frances 'Fannie' Eleanor (Jones) Musgrave. Archivists researching the life of the Musgraves embark upon a sea of stories combining opulence, litigation and controversy. [show more]
13163Eden Hall
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Bar Harbor
  • 30 Atlantic Ave
Eden Hall
Item:
  • 13163   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 30 Atlantic Ave
13203Balance Rock
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
Balance Rock
Item:
  • 13203   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Shore
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13204Bar Harbor
  • Reference
  • Places, Town
  • Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor
Item:
  • 13204   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13214Bar Harbor Shore Path
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Shore Path
Item:
  • 13214   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Shore
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
13256Malvern Hotel
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
  • 80 Mt. Desert Street
Malvern Hotel
Item:
  • 13256   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 80 Mt. Desert Street