Keywords: Cottage Street
Item 15986
Home on East Side of Cottage Street, Sanford, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 18966
Cottage Street Looking West, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1907 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 40407
15 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Eve Thornton Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 40482
22 Cottage Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Elizabeth Sears Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 111594
Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 111888
John S. Hyde farmer's cottage, Bath, 1913-1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1915 Location: Bath Client: John Sedgwick Hyde Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Exhibit
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"Historically, the cottage industries were common in areas where a large percentage of local population was engaged in seasonal work, because families…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers
"… luxury and privacy and built their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor."
