Maine Memory Network

Tate House Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel

"… clean bathrooms, sweep, and also clean the guests' rooms. Then I have lunch break and dinner break. I don’t start work until 9 in the morning."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… belongings stored away and readied for summer guests. Usually the whole family, including children, pitched in to help with the cleaning and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… written in March of 1902, some of the first guests of Harbor Cottage included artists George Hollingsworth (1813-1882) of Massachusetts and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… by Hartford Sweet who started accepting summer guests in 1882. The Homestead attracted many early rusticators."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"It had its own livery stable to help take guests to Caterpillar Hill, Newbury Neck, Blue Hill Mountain or Castine."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"In addition to taking in guests, she ran a pie shop and sold ice cream. The building was also home to Lila and Ray Stinson, who was a selectman for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"Savage (1832-1911) relatives took in guests and provided meals while they consolidated their immediate families into a few of the houses clustered…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"… Native American artifact presentation Special guest Barbara Francis teaches the History Detectives club about uses of Native American artifacts…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… and lodging houses attracted motorists; and large guest hotels on the coast, such as the Checkley and Atlantic House, lured tourists who often…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"Guest speaker Reverend Dr. Henry Wyman shares stories on life in Bangor during the '40s with Mrs. Estabrook's English class."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Hotels in Thomaston

"Joseph Berry built the Knox House (later changed to Knox Hotel) in 1828. A stable stood in the rear, the source of a disastrous fire in 1915 that…"

Life on a Tidal River - About Us

"… in the classroom and BPL Leon Higgins, Community guest speaker in the classroom Sally Hurd MacFawn, Community volunteer in the classroom Nissa…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"William Vanderbuilt of Rhode Island, writer Willa Cather (who wrote the final draft of her last book at the house), and Mrs."

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… their ever hospitable doors still open to the guest. The same holds true today. A walk through Hallowell reveals America's architectural history on…"

L'Heritage Vivant Living Heritage

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… the occasion and many flying greats were invited guests. A booklet, Portland Air Meet, with pictures of the different types of planes present was…"

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… power while housing eight relatives, then when a guest was using a candle as a light, tripped over it and stared a fire that destroyed three rooms…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… manuscript song pages to entertain family and guests, including songs popular in the 1750s and early 1800s like Bonnie Doon, Belle Isle March, I…"

Maine Irish Heritage Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… examples of his work, the Eastern Corporation Guest House (1946) in Brewer and the Merchants National Bank (1974) in Bangor."

Thomaston Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"One guest, who used to live in the house, came back for a stay and wound up taking a shower in what used to be their closet! Overall this bed and…"