Description: Grist mill on Somes Brook. High bushes cover most of building. Shingled roof, with weathered shingled siding. Large stones line bank of stream. Another small clapboard building to right in background. Appears to have been taken from upstream. Negative.
Description: Somesville School House (c. early 1900's), Main Street, Somesville. Few trees around building, evergreens in back. Covered porch in center of building with balcony above. Flag pole in center of balcony. Two chimneys and bell tower on roof. Clapboard siding, 12 unshuttered windows visible.
Description: Somes House, early photo. Young trees cover lawn. No shutters on windows. Barn to far right. Small shed next to house on right. Small addition extends from house on left. Copy from Bradley Stereo Card (this negative is one of two--see related negative). The B. Bradley stereo card does not appear to be in the collection. This photograph appears in "The Living Past" by Virginia Somes Sanderson on page 226 and is captioned, "The Original Abraham Somes Home, later converted into the Somes House, date unknown." [show more]
Description: Somes House, early photo. Young trees cover lawn. No shutters on windows. Barn to far right. Small shed next to house on right. Small addition extends from house on left. This negative is one of two made from a Bradley Stereo Card, which does not appear to be in the collection. This photograph appears in "The Living Past" by Virginia Somes Sanderson, p. 226, and is captioned, "The original Abraham Somes home, later converted into The Somes House, date unknown." [show more]
Description: Mount Desert Post Office on Main street Somesville next to former home of Daniel (Somes) and Rosemary Smith. Former Richard Donahoe house to the right. Post Office is a single story clapboard building with gable end facing the road. There is a sash window beside the front door. There is a small window high in the gabel end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roofline. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more]
Description: Two masted schooner at wharf in back of Fernald’s store (purchased in 1887 from A.J. Whiting); later Port-in-a-Storm bookstore, at low tide. Loading ramp extends from second story door in back of building. Somes House Inn to the right. Port in a Storm later was used as an art gallery.
Description: Rocky beach on either side of a small inlet. Punt on the beach waiting for the tide to come and float again. Other row boats moored in the cove. Two houses at the end of the cove.
Description: Four people standing on the steps of two story log house with cedar roof shingles. Path through garden to stone steps which lead to a covered entrance way at the side of the house.
Description: Four people standing on the steps of two story log house with cedar roof shingles. Path through garden to stone steps which lead to a covered entrance way at the side of the house.
Description: Isaac Somes house next to the Brookside cemetery in Somesville. Presently owned by Edward Babcock. Two and one half stories with a central chimney. One story el to the right and to the right a colonial revival porch. Shrubs around the front door.
Description: Old house with small covered entry way and wide stairway approaching entrance. Two dormer windows visible. Ell to the right side was covered porch. Two dormer windows on ell.
Description: Isaac Somes house next to the Brookside cemetery in Somesville. Presently owned by Edward Babcock. Two and one half stories with a central chimney. One story el to the right and to the right a colonial revival porch. Shrubs around the front door.
Description: Lewis Somes House on Main street Somesville. Picket fence in front of house. Greek Revival Cape style. Presently owned by the Dresser family of Massachusetts.
Description: Small inlet with beach one each side. House on opposite shore. Logs reinforcing earth along the shore. This area may be a parking lot or some sort of pier.
Description: James Richardson homestead at Fair Oaks Farm. The addition on the left was built by Bloomfield Richardson near the turn of the century and used as a dance hall. Now owned by Kay and Robert Moore. Kay Moore is a descendant of James Richardson. The house is rented in the summer.