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15113Jackson Laboratory
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor
  • 600 Main Street
Originally the site of Robin Hood Park
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Originally the site of Robin Hood Park
7950The Bar Harbor Fire - Ruins of the Malvern Hotel
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events, Fire
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1947
  • Bar Harbor
5404"Daisy on Daisy" - Margaret Arnold Rand Side Saddle at Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf, Steamboat Wharf
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1892-08-19
  • Bar Harbor
This photograph was taken on Newport Avenue in Bar Harbor, slightly south of the present-day Agamont Park. Porcupine Island is in the background.
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This photograph was taken on Newport Avenue in Bar Harbor, slightly south of the present-day Agamont Park. Porcupine Island is in the background.
7484Simeon Holden Mayo and his 1907 Maxwell Automobile at the Florence Hotel, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • 1908
  • Bar Harbor
13164Eden Hall: Summer Home of T.B. Musgrave
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1895-06-18
  • Bar Harbor
7839Municpal Pier at Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1964-08
  • Bar Harbor
15862St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
  • Reference
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Bar Harbor
  • 41 Mt. Desert Street
The church has forty-two stained glass window, ten of which are original Tiffany stained-glass windows and a replacement for the 11th window, stolen from the sanctuary.
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The church has forty-two stained glass window, ten of which are original Tiffany stained-glass windows and a replacement for the 11th window, stolen from the sanctuary.
16018St. Sylvia’s Catholic Church
  • Reference
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Bar Harbor
  • 53 Kebo Street
9306St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor - After 1886
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • 1886 after
  • Bar Harbor
6718Congregational Church, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Bar Harbor
  • 41 Mt. Desert Street
Made in Austria for W. H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine Church on the left - see: St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
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Made in Austria for W. H. Sherman, Bar Harbor, Maine Church on the left - see: St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
6732St. Saviour's Episcopal Church and Rectory
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • Bar Harbor
  • 41 Mount Desert Street
15873Jesup Memorial Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Bar Harbor
  • 34 Mt. Desert St.
"The Jesup Library was founded in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949, p. 209.
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"The Jesup Library was founded in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949, p. 209.
9316Jesup Memorial Library and Y.W.C.A., Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Bar Harbor
13285West End Hotel
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
13427Rodick House Hotel
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
13463Newport House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
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
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“…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]
13256Malvern Hotel
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
  • 80 Mt. Desert Street
10154Newport House, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • American Art Post Card Co., Boston and Brookline, Mass.
  • Bar Harbor
9327Hotel Florence, Bar Harbor, Me.
Hotel Porcupine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard, Real Photo
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • F.E. Sherman, Bar Harbor, ME
  • Bar Harbor
Published by F.E. Sherman, Bar Harbor, ME. - Made in U.S.A.
Description:
Published by F.E. Sherman, Bar Harbor, ME. - Made in U.S.A.
6729Hotel Florence and Village Green, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine
  • 1906 c.
  • 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. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject."
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“…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. "For the origins and summary of the Bar Harbor hotel scene and the social life that surrounded it, including the first visit of the fleet to Bar Harbor see – “Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880” by Richard A. Savage, Chapter 17, p. 226 in “Maine – A History Through Selected Readings” edited by David C. Smith and Edward O. Schriver – 1985 The article originally appeared in the “Maine Historical Society Newsletter,” Vol. 10, No.4, May 1971, pp. 101-121 For the complete story of the Leightons and Maine postcards see: ""Greetings from Maine: A Postcard Album"" by R. Brewster Harding, published by Old Port Publishing Co., Portland, 1975 - ""Turn of the Century Views of America's Pine Tree State as recorded by Portland's Picture Postcard Pioneers, Chisholm Bros., the Hugh C. Leighton Co., the Geo. W. Morris Co. and others 1888-1915. This book appears to be the source for other published information on the subject." [show more]
5659Main Street from Cottage Street - View of the Bradley Block and the Rodick Hotel - Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • 1870 c.
  • Bar Harbor
The wood building at the left is the Bradley Block which was located between the First National and Bar Harbor Banks of 2007. Just visible on the awning is a mortar and pestle sign for a druggist. The building just to the right of the white store is A.W. Bee, Stationer. The large hotel at right was the Rodick House. The freshly renovated Rodick House is garnished with new trees planted and braced on the lawn. There are board sidewalks at the edge of the dirt road which, in turn, is garnished with manure from the many carriage horses shown in the picture. The sign at front lefts says, "Berry Bros. - Boarding Hack and Livery Stable - Cottage Street - Single & Double Teams Furnished Short Notice" The sign at front right says, "Café - John Dean - Phila Caterer - Chicken Croquettes - Medicated (?) Chicken Consomme"
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The wood building at the left is the Bradley Block which was located between the First National and Bar Harbor Banks of 2007. Just visible on the awning is a mortar and pestle sign for a druggist. The building just to the right of the white store is A.W. Bee, Stationer. The large hotel at right was the Rodick House. The freshly renovated Rodick House is garnished with new trees planted and braced on the lawn. There are board sidewalks at the edge of the dirt road which, in turn, is garnished with manure from the many carriage horses shown in the picture. The sign at front lefts says, "Berry Bros. - Boarding Hack and Livery Stable - Cottage Street - Single & Double Teams Furnished Short Notice" The sign at front right says, "Café - John Dean - Phila Caterer - Chicken Croquettes - Medicated (?) Chicken Consomme" [show more]
9197The Rodick House, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Kilburn - Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909)
  • B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H.
  • Bar Harbor
7404The Malvern Hotel
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Bar Harbor
6727Malvern Hotel, Cottages, Kebo Street, Bar Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • The American News Company, New York
  • 1908 PM
  • Bar Harbor