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Title: Barn raising, Littleton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum

Date: circa 1900

Location: Littleton

Media: monochrome photograph

Title: Barn Raising, Littleton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum

Date: circa 1900

Location: Littleton

Media: monochrome photograph

Title: Barn raising, Littleton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum

Date: circa 1900

Location: Littleton

Media: monochrome photograph

Address: 70 Allen Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: George G Cilley

Style: Greek Revival

Use: Barn

Address: 619 Allen Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: Uriah Duncan

Use: Barn

Address: 344 Allen Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: Charles A Pride

Use: Barn

Farm-yard Frames

Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England, University Press of New England, 1984.)

Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.