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Historical Items

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Item 1473

Summit Spring advertising card, Harrison, ca. 1881

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1881 Location: Harrison Media: Ink on paper

Item 138

Summit Springs Hotel, Poland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Poland Media: Photographic print

Item 35998

Katharine Robinson Curtis, New Jersey, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Summit Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 85337

Marr property, Summit Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Sherman L. Marr Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 85632

McDougall property, Summit Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John A. McDougall Use: Dwelling

Item 85662

Bruton property, Summit Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Leon G. Bruton Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111588

Basset house, Summit, NJ, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1909 Location: Summit Client: Carroll Phillips Bassett Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 110186

Carroll Phillips Bassett house, Summit, NJ, 1886-1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886–1910 Location: Summit Client: Carroll Phillips Bassett Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 109186

Samuel S. Goodman residence, Bangor, 1948

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948 Location: Bangor; Bangor Client: Samuel S. Goodman Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

Exhibit

Skiing Pleasant Mountain

By the second half of the 20th century, skiing began to enjoy unprecedented popularity. Pleasant Mountain in Bridgton (later Shawnee Peak) was Maine's foremost place to join the fun in the 1950s and 1960s.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Clerque also built a hotel, named the Summit House, on Green Mountain. Clerque’s railway ran for about 10 years."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… enthusiast, a plan for a carriage road to the summit of Mount Washington. Eight years later in August, 1861, the Mount Washington Carriage Road…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"The summit of the most of them is destitute of trees, as there are only rocks on them. The woods consist of pines, firs, and birches only."