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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
6980Cutting Ice at Lawlor Ice Business
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Cutting Ice at Lawlor Ice Business
Item:
  • 6980   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
6979Cutting Ice on Christopher Lawlor's Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Cutting Ice on Christopher Lawlor's Pond
Item:
  • 6979   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Source:
  • Collection of William J. Lawlor
6983Cutting Ice on Christopher Lawlor's Pond
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Cutting Ice on Christopher Lawlor's Pond
Item:
  • 6983   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Chris' Lane
Source:
  • Collection of William J. Lawlor
12954Cuz' Cafe
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 14 Clark Point Road
The building had previously been Ham Stanley's Cafe, but when the building burned it as Cuz' Cafe. On Wednesday, April 6, 1955 the Ellsworth American mentioned that the building was being rebuilt by R.M. Norwood.
Cuz' Cafe
Item:
  • 12954   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 14 Clark Point Road
Description:
The building had previously been Ham Stanley's Cafe, but when the building burned it as Cuz' Cafe. On Wednesday, April 6, 1955 the Ellsworth American mentioned that the building was being rebuilt by R.M. Norwood.
14397D. L. Mayo's Cash Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
D. L. Mayo's Cash Store
Item:
  • 14397   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
14956Dave's Dairy Delight
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 297 Main Street
Dave's Dairy Delight
Item:
  • 14956   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 297 Main Street
15888Deacon Henry Higgins Clark Brickyard
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 89-93 Clark Point Rd.
"There were several brickyards on the island. Deacon Clark made bricks from clay on his land and between the houses of Richard Carroll and F. A. Birlem on the Clark Point Road the depression from which the clay was taken may yet be seen." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 89. According to Ralph Stanley the clay was dug from the stream coming down the hill between what are now two properties and the bricks were made across the road on the shore. – Ralph Stanley 2015.
Deacon Henry Higgins Clark Brickyard
Item:
  • 15888   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Building Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 89-93 Clark Point Rd.
Description:
"There were several brickyards on the island. Deacon Clark made bricks from clay on his land and between the houses of Richard Carroll and F. A. Birlem on the Clark Point Road the depression from which the clay was taken may yet be seen." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 89. According to Ralph Stanley the clay was dug from the stream coming down the hill between what are now two properties and the bricks were made across the road on the shore. – Ralph Stanley 2015. [show more]
15959Deacon Henry Higgins Clark Shipyard
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 152 Clark Point Road
"A workshop stood for many years on the shore side of the road almost opposite the above-mentioned house. Many different families occupied the living apartment on the second floor. Work for the shipyard was done in the shop on the first floor. The shipyard was a busy place for many years and many small vessels and boats were constructed there." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. The schooner “Kate Newman” was built at Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor in 1874.
Deacon Henry Higgins Clark Shipyard
Item:
  • 15959   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 152 Clark Point Road
Description:
"A workshop stood for many years on the shore side of the road almost opposite the above-mentioned house. Many different families occupied the living apartment on the second floor. Work for the shipyard was done in the shop on the first floor. The shipyard was a busy place for many years and many small vessels and boats were constructed there." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. The schooner “Kate Newman” was built at Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor in 1874. [show more]
7391Dudley Luther Mayo at Dudley L. Mayo Store
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
Dudley Luther Mayo at Dudley L. Mayo Store
Item:
  • 7391   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
3583E.A. Lawler Paint Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Lawler purchased the building in 1923. The other half of the building was occupied by the Robinson Brother's Automobile Accessories salesroom
E.A. Lawler Paint Company
Item:
  • 3583   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Description:
Lawler purchased the building in 1923. The other half of the building was occupied by the Robinson Brother's Automobile Accessories salesroom
15530Elmwood Cafe
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 366 Main Street
Elmwood Cafe
Item:
  • 15530   
Accession #:
  • 1175
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 366 Main Street
3449Fred Mayo's Carpenter Shop - 1st Location
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Carpentry Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 45 Clark Point Road
Fred S. Mayo’s first carpenter shop was at 45 Clark Point Road. His 2nd carpenter shop was on 28 Village Green Way.
Fred Mayo's Carpenter Shop - 1st Location
Item:
  • 3449   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Carpentry Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 45 Clark Point Road
Description:
Fred S. Mayo’s first carpenter shop was at 45 Clark Point Road. His 2nd carpenter shop was on 28 Village Green Way.
7280Fred Sidney Mayo on Steps of Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 363 Main Street
Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016).
Fred Sidney Mayo on Steps of Mayo's Ice Cream Parlor
Item:
  • 7280   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 363 Main Street
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
Description:
Fred Mayo holding a wooden ice cream bucket. The building at the far right is the James A. Freeman House (the Inn at Southwest Harbor as of 2016).
12953Freeman Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 370 Main Street
Freeman Store
Item:
  • 12953   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 370 Main Street
3592Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Item:
  • 3592   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
12879Gordon & White Garage
Howard E. Robinson Garage
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 322-326-330 Main Street
Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) purchased site for the garage from Isaac F. Stanley in 1924. Howard built a garage there in 1928. He sold the garage and property to Earl Gordon (1893-1964) and Leslie Frank White (1891-1967) in 1929. They established the Gordon & White Garage. The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors. The gas pumps were removed in 1985 by the new owner, Tom Landers, who renamed the business Landers Ford.
Gordon & White Garage
Howard E. Robinson Garage
Item:
  • 12879   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 322-326-330 Main Street
Description:
Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) purchased site for the garage from Isaac F. Stanley in 1924. Howard built a garage there in 1928. He sold the garage and property to Earl Gordon (1893-1964) and Leslie Frank White (1891-1967) in 1929. They established the Gordon & White Garage. The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors. The gas pumps were removed in 1985 by the new owner, Tom Landers, who renamed the business Landers Ford. [show more]
14544Hannah Bunker Gilley’s Millinery and Fancy Goods
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Business Shop
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 306 Main Street
Hannah Bunker Gilley’s Millinery and Fancy Goods
Item:
  • 14544   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Business Shop
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 306 Main Street
15001Harborside Industries
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Southwest Harbor
Howe D. Higgins turned a hobby into a profitable business making plaster figurines and souvenirs of the state of Maine.
Harborside Industries
Item:
  • 15001   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Howe D. Higgins turned a hobby into a profitable business making plaster figurines and souvenirs of the state of Maine.
16261Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Item:
  • 16261   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
16262Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Harvesting Ice at Chris's Pond
Item:
  • 16262   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Film Negative
Subject:
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
13447Higgins Blacksmith Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 46 Clark Point Road
Higgins Blacksmith Shop
Item:
  • 13447   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Blacksmith Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 46 Clark Point Road
14140Hot Flash Anny
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Business Shop
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 4 Clark Point Road
Hot Flash Anny
Item:
  • 14140   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Business Shop
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 4 Clark Point Road
16214Icicles on Moore's Garage from the Edwin Albert Lawler House
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Object, Other Object
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 19 Clark Point Road
Icicles on Moore's Garage from the Edwin Albert Lawler House
Item:
  • 16214   
Accession #:
  • 2004
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Object, Other Object
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 19 Clark Point Road
Source:
  • Gift of Charles Carroll
12952Jackson Market
T.W. Jackson & Son
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 10 Clark Point Road
The store, on Clark Point Road, was T.W. Jackson & Son, an IGA store. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. "In the 1930s and 40s, Jackson's Market of Southwest Harbor sent a boat and operated a weekly market on the old steamboat wharf [on Little Cranberry Island] during the summer. In addition to meat and vegetables, a youthful stamp collector could find a small envelope of stamps inside each package of Brookfield butter." - “A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine” by Hugh L. Dwelley, published by Isleford Historical Society, 1990, p. 114. In 2017, Christina's Gallery & Past Treasures, was located in the building once occupied by the Jackson Market.
Jackson Market
T.W. Jackson & Son
Item:
  • 12952   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 10 Clark Point Road
Description:
The store, on Clark Point Road, was T.W. Jackson & Son, an IGA store. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. "In the 1930s and 40s, Jackson's Market of Southwest Harbor sent a boat and operated a weekly market on the old steamboat wharf [on Little Cranberry Island] during the summer. In addition to meat and vegetables, a youthful stamp collector could find a small envelope of stamps inside each package of Brookfield butter." - “A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine” by Hugh L. Dwelley, published by Isleford Historical Society, 1990, p. 114. In 2017, Christina's Gallery & Past Treasures, was located in the building once occupied by the Jackson Market. [show more]
3686J.C. Ralph Studio and Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Main Street
John C. Ralph’s Studio has a complicated history. The J.C. Ralph Studio and Store, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, proclaimed itself, "Eyeglasses and Spectacles - Jeweler and Optician." "Jeweler John C. Ralph moved from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor in 1888 to open a jewelry window in J.T.R. Freeman's store. Over the course of his 22-year tenure in Southwest Harbor, this ambitious man established many businesses...As described in the newspaper, Ralph never walked when he could run." -“Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 57 – 2001. “John D. Lurvey purchased the lot and built thereon a small building which he used as a storehouse for coffins which he made, as he was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Later this building was used as a public library and was twice moved; once to the northern end of the lot and again to the place now occupied by the Lawton Variety store, where it was used as a drug store, a jeweler’s store, a barber shop and the post office. John C. Ralph kept the post office there and enlarged the building.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148 – 1938.
J.C. Ralph Studio and Store
Item:
  • 3686   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Main Street
Description:
John C. Ralph’s Studio has a complicated history. The J.C. Ralph Studio and Store, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, proclaimed itself, "Eyeglasses and Spectacles - Jeweler and Optician." "Jeweler John C. Ralph moved from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor in 1888 to open a jewelry window in J.T.R. Freeman's store. Over the course of his 22-year tenure in Southwest Harbor, this ambitious man established many businesses...As described in the newspaper, Ralph never walked when he could run." -“Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 57 – 2001. “John D. Lurvey purchased the lot and built thereon a small building which he used as a storehouse for coffins which he made, as he was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Later this building was used as a public library and was twice moved; once to the northern end of the lot and again to the place now occupied by the Lawton Variety store, where it was used as a drug store, a jeweler’s store, a barber shop and the post office. John C. Ralph kept the post office there and enlarged the building.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148 – 1938. [show more]