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Historical Items

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Item 80757

Mount Kineo House, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Kineo Media: Postcard

Item 10607

Mt. Kineo House and sheep, Mt. Kineo, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Kineo Media: Postcard

Item 80001

Mt. Kineo Hotel brochure, Moosehead Lake, 1875

Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society Date: 1875 Location: Kineo Media: Brochure

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Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109806

House for Mount Kineo and Guide's House for the Kineo Co., Kineo, 1900-1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1902 Location: Kineo Client: Kineo Company Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects

Item 116276

Mt. Kineo House, Kineo Township, 1917-1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1926 Location: Kineo Township Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion

During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.

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Moosehead Steamboats

After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.

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Luxurious Leisure

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.