Keywords: Island House Hotel
Item 73416
Ponciana Hotel, Swan's Island, 1908
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 16459
Island House and slip, Southwest Harbor, 1893
Contributed by: Southwest Harbor Public Library Date: 1893-08-30 Location: Southwest Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 68571
Cushing's Island Hotel & Realty Company property, Cushing's Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cushing's Island Hotel & Realty Company Use: Cottage
Item 68566
Cushing's Island Hotel & Realty Company property, Cushing's Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cushing's Island Hotel & Realty Company Use: Cottage
Item 111548
Cottage for M. S. Gibson on Cushing Island, Portland, 1883
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1883 Location: Portland Client: M. S. Gibson Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 111546
Cottage for Francis Cushing on Cushing Island, Portland, ca. 1896
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Location: Portland Client: Francis Cushing Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Exhibit
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel
"Ocean View Hotel Ocean View Hotel porch, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society The Ocean View Hotel was located at 241…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The McCormick house
"McCormick house 2012 X The following people lived in (if not owned) this home throughout its long history: Warren Sprague, Willy 'Jack'…"
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
