Keywords: summer houses
Item 7584
Frank Swan's Summer Camp Ca. 1905
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1905 Location: Madison Media: Photographic print
Item 98692
Summer cottages at Grimes Cove, Ocean Point, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Boothbay; East Boothbay; Ocean Point Media: Glass Negative
Item 76995
37 Summer Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stanislaus Dyro Use: Dwelling - Three Family
Item 87913
12 Summer Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Heirs of Thomas Fisher Use: Dwelling - Single Family & Store
Item 116299
Theodore Bird house, Rockland, 1948-1949
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1949 Location: Rockland Client: Theodore S. Bird Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 109154
Joanne & Dick Warrens' summer house, Dedham, 1948
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948 Location: Dedham Client: Dick Warren Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"… of Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point, the Dark Harbor summer people valued a more natural, rugged summer experience, including walking on the stone…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures
"Summer Pleasures Dale Stockbridge and Galen Turner, Swan's Island, ca. 1965Swan's Island Historical Society Playing at the beach, Swan's…"
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
Story
How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis
My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.