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Historical Items

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Item 60171

Good Will-Hinckley Campus drawings, 1928

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1928-10-04 Location: Fairfield Media: Pencil on Paper

Item 62538

General Plan for Western Promenade, Portland, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 54634

Bancroft-Foote Cottage and artificial pond, Fairfield, ca. 1935

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1935 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 85627

Olmsted property, S. Side of Island, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Robert E. S. Olmsted Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109939

Plan of land owned by Frederick L. Olmsted, Deer Isle, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Deer Isle Client: unknown Architect: M. F. Sherman

Item 109935

Camden Shores Front Park Planting Plan, Camden, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Camden Client: unknown Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Item 109938

Felsted, Deer Island, 1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906 Location: Deer Island Client: unknown Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Online Exhibits

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Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

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George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls

George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.

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The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families

The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.

Site Pages

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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… Pickering Thomas, Portland Eaton Tarbell, Bangor Olmsted Brothers, Boston Stockly & Leahy Associates, Portland Wadsworth and Boston, Portland"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"In collaboration with the Maine Olmsted Alliance, which merged with Maine Historical Society in 2010, and with generous support of the Leon Levy…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… gratitude to the Leon Levy Foundation and Maine Olmsted Alliance for supporting the Maine Architectural & Landscape Design Database; and to our…"