Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

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

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

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

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

Mount Desert Island was a place of environmental diversity and dramatic landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous…

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

Chasse's collection provided an opportunity to expand landscape design holdings and build a network of partners to support converting the database to…

Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database

Search the Database The Maine Architecture & Landscape Database organizes and searches for items at the commission (project) level.

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

… architect, Frederick Tompson was an accomplished landscape painter, sculptor, and photographer. He belonged to the Brush’un painting group with…

Architecture & Landscape database - Biographies

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

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

George Coombs By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Home for Joseph Briggs designed by George M. Coombs, 1884 Maine Historical Society George Millard…

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

Gridley Barrows By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Gridley Barrows (1912-1999) was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1912.

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

John P. Thomas This article is based on Roger G. Reed’s biography of John P. Thomas in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine.

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

John Calvin Stevens By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. John Calvin Stevens, Portland, ca. 1910Maine Historical Society Born in Boston in 1855, John…

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

Maine Architectural Renderings By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Bramhall by Charles A. AlexanderMaine Historical Society With the emergence of…

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

Eaton W. Tarbell By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Born on an Aroostook County potato farm in Merrill in 1914, Eaton Weatherbee Tarbell (1914-1992)…

Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

Elmer I. Thomas By Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Elmer I. Thomas (1863-1895) was born in Lewiston in 1863. His father Sylvanus D.

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…

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2

Landscape Photography Landscape Photography Slideshow Click on image for full slideshow Dotting the landscape of mid-nineteenth century Maine…

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

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

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

Study for the LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, ca. 1911 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture…

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

Landscape Photography Connor and Hathorn Building, Pittsfield, ca. 1860Item Contributed byMaine Historical Society Early outdoor photographs…

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

Landscape Photography Mussey's Row, Middle Street, Portland, ca. 1856Item Contributed byMaine Historical Society Taken in 1845 or 1846, this…

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

Landscape Photography Bemis Family, South Paris, ca. 1870Item Contributed byMaine Historical Society Communities beyond the Portland area are…

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

Landscape Photography Casco Engine Co. No. 1 firemen's muster and parade, Portland, 1846Item Contributed byMaine Historical Society The Maine…

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

Blue Hill Landscape, circa 1910 X By the turn of the century, there were many more houses in Blue Hill, but the landscape remained largely…

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

… rich history is embodied in its unique landscape and buildings. Though some of the buildings are gone, there are many rich stories to be told, a…