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| 13485 | Seawall Motel |
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| Annabelle owned and operated Seawall Dining Room, Manset, from 1959 to 2000. In 1982 she added the motel. | 
Description: Annabelle owned and operated Seawall Dining Room, Manset, from 1959 to 2000. In 1982 she added the motel. | ||||
| 14957 | Southwest Motor Inn |
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| The Motel, named the "Southwest Motor Inn," was built in 1970 and ran until 1980. New Motel Planned For Area "Southwest Harbor - Three businessmen here have combined resources to build a new 32-unit motel on Route 102 overlooking Norwood Cove. Foundation work is now being done and the motel will be ready for occupancy by June 1, said David Benson, one of the three partners. Druggist George McVety and lawyer Frederick Burrill are Benson's Associates in the business venture. The quarter-million-dollar motel will have two levels, with an outside corridor, plus an office and quarters for the manager. Hanson is acting as contractor for the project. The major subcontractor is John Goodwin, who is handling concrete work. The motel will be built entirely of concrete blocks. The three businessmen have not yet decided on a name for the new motel." - Bangor Daily News, 1971 The property was later Norwood Cove Housing, owned by the Ellsworth and MDI Housing Authorities who provide housing assistance and related services to individuals and families who face income or other life challenges. | 
Description: The Motel, named the "Southwest Motor Inn," was built in 1970 and ran until 1980. New Motel Planned For Area "Southwest Harbor - Three businessmen here have combined resources to build a new 32-unit motel on Route 102 overlooking Norwood Cove. Foundation work is now being done and the motel will be ready for occupancy by June 1, said David Benson, one of the three partners. Druggist George McVety and lawyer Frederick Burrill are Benson's Associates in the business venture. The quarter-million-dollar motel will have two levels, with an outside corridor, plus an office and quarters for the manager. Hanson is acting as contractor for the project. The major subcontractor is John Goodwin, who is handling concrete work. The motel will be built entirely of concrete blocks. The three businessmen have not yet decided on a name for the new motel." - Bangor Daily News, 1971 The property was later Norwood Cove Housing, owned by the Ellsworth and MDI Housing Authorities who provide housing assistance and related services to individuals and families who face income or other life challenges. [show more] | ||||
| 12368 | The Franklin Ward Machine Shop as The Dockside Motel and XYZ Restaurant |
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| 12369 | The Franklin Ward Machine Shop as The Dockside Motel and XYZ Restaurant |
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| 12370 | Robert Hoyt at The Franklin Ward Machine Shop as The Dockside Motel and XYZ Restaurant |
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| 12371 | The Franklin Ward Machine Shop as The Dockside Motel and XYZ Restaurant |
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| 13494 | Seawall Dining Room and Motel Flyer |
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| 6420 | The Girls At The Claremont House |
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| 6808 | Group at the Stanley House |
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| 6809 | Group at The Stanley House |
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| 9227 | Bessie M. Noyes and Students on the Steps at Ocean House Cottage/Annex |
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| Bessie Noyes is sitting on the steps, second step up, 6th from the left. Audrey Emeline Dolliver (1897-1985) is on the steps in the exact center of this photograph. | 
Description: Bessie Noyes is sitting on the steps, second step up, 6th from the left. Audrey Emeline Dolliver (1897-1985) is on the steps in the exact center of this photograph. | |||
| 2444 | Harbor View Motel |
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| 9513 | The Sea Side Inn from Ox Hill |
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| 9458 | Porch and Water View from the Stanley House |
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| 3594 | Somes House Hotel |
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| "Later [Abraham Somes] built a substantial frame house on the site of the Somes House and a part of that house is embodied in the present hotel. Some of the rooms at the back remain almost as they were at first. The house was built as a one-story building and later the walls were raised. Since then there have been many alterations and additions. George A. Somes finally inherited the property, developed the hotel business and built the two cottages toward the shore. His widow now owns it and conducts the hotel." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 270-271. “When George A. Somes inherited the [Somes House], he expanded the family inn by constructing two large additions, one attached at the left and the other freestanding to the right, giving the hotel a capacity of 150 guests. Noted visitors included Louis Comfort Tiffany, Alfred Vanderbilt, Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Pres. William Howard Taft, and Mary Cassatt. Known for its chicken and lobster dinners, the Somes House operated into the 1950s with rates of $5 to $10 a day." - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 27. | 
Description: "Later [Abraham Somes] built a substantial frame house on the site of the Somes House and a part of that house is embodied in the present hotel. Some of the rooms at the back remain almost as they were at first. The house was built as a one-story building and later the walls were raised. Since then there have been many alterations and additions. George A. Somes finally inherited the property, developed the hotel business and built the two cottages toward the shore. His widow now owns it and conducts the hotel." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 270-271. “When George A. Somes inherited the [Somes House], he expanded the family inn by constructing two large additions, one attached at the left and the other freestanding to the right, giving the hotel a capacity of 150 guests. Noted visitors included Louis Comfort Tiffany, Alfred Vanderbilt, Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Pres. William Howard Taft, and Mary Cassatt. Known for its chicken and lobster dinners, the Somes House operated into the 1950s with rates of $5 to $10 a day." - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 27. [show more] | |||
| 3610 | Dirigo Hotel |
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| The Dirigo Hotel burned down on September 3, 1960. | ||||
| 13024 | St. Sauveur Hotel |
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| 13027 | 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. |  Porcupine Hotel Hotel Florence
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] | ||||
| 13034 | The American House Hotel - Ellsworth |
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| 13052 | The Exchange Hotel |
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| 13054 | The Hancock House |
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| 13055 | The Mount Desert House |
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| 13084 | Asticou Hotel |
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| 13191 | Roberts House Hotel |
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| “At the head of Northeast Harbor, about a mile from the Kimball House, on a high terrace looking out to sea, stand the Roberts House and Savage’s boarding-house and Harbor Cottages, a charming sequestered neighborhood, haunted through the livelong summer by bright tennis-suits and vivacious exiles from the cities.” – “Chisholm’s Mount-Desert Guide-Book” by Moses Foster Sweetser, p. 65-6, published by Chisholm Brothers, 1888 William Roberts built the Roberts House in Northeast Harbor in 1883. In 1893 the Roberts House, with accommodations for 40 guests, was run by H.D. Roberts. Horace D. Roberts was born to William and Deborah (Robbins) Roberts on March 18, 1834 in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Horace married Catharine Gilpatrick Stanley (1835-1918), daughter of William and Hannah (Manchester) Stanley in Southwest Harbor. Horace D. Roberts died on December 7, 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts. | 
Description: “At the head of Northeast Harbor, about a mile from the Kimball House, on a high terrace looking out to sea, stand the Roberts House and Savage’s boarding-house and Harbor Cottages, a charming sequestered neighborhood, haunted through the livelong summer by bright tennis-suits and vivacious exiles from the cities.” – “Chisholm’s Mount-Desert Guide-Book” by Moses Foster Sweetser, p. 65-6, published by Chisholm Brothers, 1888 William Roberts built the Roberts House in Northeast Harbor in 1883. In 1893 the Roberts House, with accommodations for 40 guests, was run by H.D. Roberts. Horace D. Roberts was born to William and Deborah (Robbins) Roberts on March 18, 1834 in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Horace married Catharine Gilpatrick Stanley (1835-1918), daughter of William and Hannah (Manchester) Stanley in Southwest Harbor. Horace D. Roberts died on December 7, 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts. [show more] | ||||
| 13227 | Clifton House Hotel |
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