Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"These artistic perspective drawings differ from the sets of working drawings prepared for construction purposes that included elevations, floor…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… and designed environment, this database includes architecture and landscape design commissions from ca. 1850 through the present."

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

"Architectural renderings, also known as presentation drawings, are also represented either as part of a commission or as a stand alone record."

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"… of collections currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by contributing repository."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"Project Background and Partners The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database started as a project in 2002, when Maine Historical Society (MHS)…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"He then attended Harvard’s School of Architecture, leaving in 1936 to work in New York City on WPA mural projects with such noted artists as Stuart…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… death in 1880, Coombs continued to practice architecture on his own. For the next sixteen years, he worked without a partner, relying on himself…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… 1889 book “Examples of American Domestic Architecture.” John Calvin Stevens is one of the best documented figures in Maine architectural history…"

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

"Tarbell. This item is part of the Eaton Tarbell architectural drawings and records collection. Other addresses include Exchange Street in Bangor, ME."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Through surviving photographs and drawing we revisit a number of Bar Harbor’s most famous gardens – most of which have been lost forever to neglect…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… year his widow Sallie Tarbell donated his architectural drawings to the Maine Historical Society, where they are essential to telling the story of…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"… Institute of Technology, where he attended architecture classes in 1888 and 1889. His studies at MIT were followed by travel in England and Europe…"

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

"Coombs. This item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"He then studied at Harvard’s School of Architecture. Between October 1912 and April 1913, he traveled in Europe, spending much of his time in Italy."

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

"… by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for Portland Museum of Art at an unknown address in Portland, ME, circa…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

"Biographies This site includes select biographies (listed at left) for database-represented architects and firms."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Frederick A. Tompson By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Frederick Augustus Tompson (1857-1919) was born in Portland in 1857. His father John A."

Maine Historic Preservation Commission

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin, Bangor, ca. 1868

"He was interested in much that surrounded him: architecture, politics, gardening and farming, business, boats, horses, trolleys, churches, and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin dream house, Bangor, 1866

"… a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, entitled this drawing that appears on page 52 of his 1864 "Scrap and Sketch Book," "Ball Hill Cove as it should…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin homestead, Bangor, ca. 1864

"A commentary that accompanies the drawing in "John Martin's Journal," which he began writing in 1864, provides details of each planting and other…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864

"… was a meticulous bookkeeper, gardener, and architecture and dancing enthusiast. In 1864, he wrote and illustrated a journal about his life and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866

"… and shopkeeper who was interested in landscaping, architecture, fashion, business practices and most other subjects of his day, drew this…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Atkins House, Jefferson Street, Bangor, 1851

"The drawing appears on page 387 of Martin's journal, which he wrote and illustrated in 1864 to recount his life and activities for his children."