Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"The Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database is a work in progress. Ultimate objectives include at least one image from each commission…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by contributing repository."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… Background and Partners The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database started as a project in 2002, when Maine Historical Society (MHS) undertook an…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"Maine Architectural Renderings By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Bramhall by Charles A. AlexanderMaine Historical Society With the emergence of…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… and garden expression in this extraordinary landscape. Through surviving photographs and drawing we revisit a number of Bar Harbor’s most famous…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"Search the Database The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database organizes and searches for items at the commission (project) level."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… death in 1880, Coombs continued to practice architecture on his own. For the next sixteen years, he worked without a partner, relying on himself…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"He then attended Harvard’s School of Architecture, leaving in 1936 to work in New York City on WPA mural projects with such noted artists as Stuart…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… 1889 book “Examples of American Domestic Architecture.” John Calvin Stevens is one of the best documented figures in Maine architectural history…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… Bowdoin in 1937, he enrolled in the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design."

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"He then studied at Harvard’s School of Architecture. Between October 1912 and April 1913, he traveled in Europe, spending much of his time in Italy."

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"… Institute of Technology, where he attended architecture classes in 1888 and 1889. His studies at MIT were followed by travel in England and Europe…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"Biographies This site includes select biographies (listed at left) for database-represented architects and firms."

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"… by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development Associates Trust at Hancock Street in Bangor, ME, circa…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… architect, Frederick Tompson was an accomplished landscape painter, sculptor, and photographer. He belonged to the Brush’un painting group with…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"The commission is associated with George M. Coombs. This item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection."

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"… by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Portland Museum of Art at an unknown address in Portland, ME, circa…"

Greater Portland Landmarks

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2

"Landscape Photography Landscape Photography Slideshow Click on image for full slideshow Dotting the landscape of mid-nineteenth century Maine…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"Landscape Photography Connor and Hathorn Building, Pittsfield, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society Early outdoor photographs are…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Landscape Photography Mussey's Row, Middle Street, Portland, ca. 1856Maine Historical Society Taken in 1845 or 1846, this view of buildings…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"Landscape Photography Bemis Family, South Paris, ca. 1870Maine Historical Society Communities beyond the Portland area are also represented…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Landscape Photography Casco Engine Co. No. 1 firemen's muster and parade, Portland, 1846Maine Historical Society The Maine Historical Society…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… that surrounded the Point created a problematic landscape where several bridges were needed to extend Centre Street, to create Front Street, to…"