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Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"… Dictionary of Architects in Maine Several architects listed at left are represented in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine; while…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911

"This item is part of the Stevens Architects drawings and records collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"While predominantly representing Maine architects and firms in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor, the database includes a wide selection of drawings for…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Many collections include contributing architects and designers. Please search for individual names using the database."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… as well as Consigli Construction, CWS Architects, East Brown Cow, The Knickerbocker Group, and Simons Architects, MHS converted the Microsoft…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"Redundancy, including drawings by earlier architects are reflected throughout. Wherever possible, contributing architects, designers, contractors and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"George Coombs learned drafting from Boston architect Frederick Hamilton. At the age of twenty in 1872, Coombs entered the office of Lewiston…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… Portland City Hall was produced by the principal architects, Carrere and Hastings of New York for a project in which the Stevens firm served as…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"That year the noted German architect Walter Gropius joined the department as a faculty member and the next year was appointed its chair."

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"… sophomore year in 1884, he decided to become an architect and returned to Lewiston to train as a draftsman with George M. Coombs."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"Fassett, the city’s leading architect. Stevens rose within seven years from office boy to become Fassett’s junior partner in 1880."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Fassett, the city’s leading architect. In doing so, Tompson followed John Calvin Stevens, who joined the Fassett firm upon completing Portland High…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"Thomas in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine. John Pickering Thomas (1886-1944) was born in Portland in 1886 and grew up on Deering…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… the Maine Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He made an extensive photographic record of Lewiston architecture, using his pictures in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect William Keith

"Architect William Keith The William Keith House, Thomaston, ca. 1960sThomaston Historical Society William R."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"Architect James Overlock The Overlock House, Thomaston, ca. 1960Thomaston Historical Society During the mid 19th century, Knox Street…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Lost Gardens of Eden “Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: the landscape of Mount Desert Island” by Patrick Chassé."

Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Development…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Montpelier

"Bullfinch’s travels to Europe in the late 18th century acquainted him with the Scottish architect Robert Adams, who popularized the Adamesque style…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Cutler Memorial Library, Farmington, 1903

"William Miller of Lewiston, was the architect. Notice the copper trim, eaves, downspouting, and roof finials that are still the bright copper as when…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Architecture in the 20th Century

"… ship-lapped, pilastered design, some of true Maine low-down dimensions, and some with doorways that have been admired and copied by architects.”"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865

"… State Museum Description Noted Bangor architect Benjamin Deane (1790-1867) designed the high school building, at right, which was built…"