Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - E. S. Dingley Corn Shop crew and huskers, Farmington Falls, ca. 1900

"… Women and men are husking corn under the shed roof at the E.S. Dingley Corn Shop in Farmington Falls. Bushels of corn are in foreground."

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

"Notice the copper trim, eaves, downspouting, and roof finials that are still the bright copper as when they were installed."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"The brick house had a hipped roof, hidden by a parapet around the roof perimeter, single chimneys at each end, and chimneys along the back wall."

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"This design has a combination of hip and gable roofs. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ The Poor Farm."

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"The roof of Grover's grocery store was demolished and the roof of the Lowell, Simmons and Stearn's stable was crushed in."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 2

"… braced frame construction with a rafter-purlin roof, the framing members are circular sawed, as are the piles of boards in the background waiting…"

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… do you earn your daily bread? How do you keep the roof over head? Where do you toil the whole day long? How do you manage to get along? The…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Watts Block

"He built an impressive three-storey brick hip-roof building and presented it to the town of Thomaston."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"By the time the fire department arrived, after 4 am, the "roof was undulating like an inflated balloon" (page five)."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"… their houses were made of wood and had a thatched roof. My grandmother cooked on a fire pit and got water from a well."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House

"… Honorable John O’Brien, who owned the marble manufactory at Mill River, and they built the house to the west in a similar federal hip-roof style."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… structures with square-pitched cedar-shingled roofs. The ground floor had four windows, a 16’ X 18’ front room (which contained a Hampden cook…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"It left a lot of damage such as roofs coming off, debris hitting buildings, and leaks. The Cotton Mill sold the machinery to a mill in Georgia."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"Slate was used for roofs, floors, paints, and blackboards. Plaster was used for making and fixing walls."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"The building now has a flat roof, but originally had a hip roof. It is brick with a granite foundation. Sagadahock National Bank, Bath, ca."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"The roof is a hipped roof. That architectural style was rarely seen in this area at that time. The building is considered elaborate because of the…"

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"FROM THERE I SAW ROOFS BEING THROWN AROUND AND I SAW MR. GROVER RUNNING OUTTA HIS STORE, AND I NOTICED A LITTLE BOY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS STORE, AFTER…"

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"… heard an ominous ripping noise which lifted the roof right above his head. Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"A wooden roof with sliding doors was erected above the top of the cells, creating an open room about 10-12’ high."

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"The roof was flat and in 1988, seventy years after it was built, it had never leaked and the town had never had to repair it."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… are three-story, brick structures with flat roofs. This block was built on the site of the Columbian Hotel and the Columbian Hall, which burned in…"