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Historical Items

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Item 14428

Good Will Greenhouse, Fairfield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1920 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 31024

Arno S. Chase greenhouse after blizzard, Cumberland, 1920

Contributed by: 2009.0075 through Prince Memorial Library Date: 1920 Location: Cumberland Media: Photographic print

Item 51710

Good Will Campus, Fairfield, 1911

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1911 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 32167

Assessor's Record, 619 Allen Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Uriah Duncan Use: Greenhouse

Item 40144

Assessor's Record, 1128 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bainbridge Coffin Use: Greenhouse

Item 41493

Assessor's Record, 108-112 Coyle Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: William Sawyer Use: Greenhouse

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109417

House for Mr. James Hopkins Smith, Falmouth, 1893-1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893–1900 Location: Falmouth Client: James Hopkins Smith Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 110443

Rosecliff Greenhouses, Mount Desert, 1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994 Location: Mount Desert Client: unknown Architect: Roc Caivano Architects

Item 110460

Garland Farm, ca. 1955-1990

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1955–1990 Client: Lewis Garland, Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"In the early 1890s Frank and Arno Chase had a greenhouse selling their product under the Chase Brothers name."

Site Page

Cumberland Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Arno Chase’s greenhouse burned in March 1933. Frank Chase built a greenhouse on Main Street, and had about 8,000 ft. of glass."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila

Animal agriculture's ties to climate change

Story

Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute

The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.