Keywords: Cape Cottage Casino (Cape Elizabeth, Me.)
Item 17734
Leroy Nason and friend, Cape Cottage, 1913
Who is with Leroy Nason?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print
Item 17391
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print
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 109416
Cape Cottage Casino for P. & C.E. Railway, Cape Elizabeth, 1898-1899
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898–1899 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Portland & Cape Elizabeth Railway Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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
At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
