Description: 2012 exhibit text: Skyview Cottage for Lawrence Lewis Northeast Harbor, ME, 1900-02 Pencil on tracing paper The Gerrish Collection, Northeast Harbor Library These studies show an interest by Savage in manipulating the typical Shingle style elements of dormers, turrets, and porches. He merges these forms in this design to develop a simple, pleasing and romantic shingled mass. This detail of Skyview shows Savage's overlay of structural wood framing to describe his concept to a contractor. Most likely he worked out framing detail with the contractor, who no doubt brought his experience to what was a collaborative exchange. [show more]
Description: 2012 exhibit text: Harbor Villa Home for Merritt Ober Northeast Harbor, ME, 1903 Pencil on tracing paper The Gerrish Collection, Northeast Harbor Library Designed for the local butcher and business leader in Northeast Harbor, this house on Harbor Side has changed very little from these early elevation sketches. A substantial residence in Northeast Harbor. This is an example of a local business person commissioning a home by the established local architect. [show more]
Description: 2012 exhibit text: Camp for Edwin Corning Northeast Harbor, ME, 1901 Ink on linen The Great Harbor Collection, Northeast Harbor Library This composition shows the plans and principal elevations for a compound for Mr. Corning containing a main house and a series of sleeping pavilions. This project was designed as a "camp" and was uncharacteristic of Savage's cottage designs in Northeast Harbor.
Description: Woman dressed in long gown sitting in chair. Possibly wife of Sans Whitmore. Inscribed on back, "Sincerely yours/ Mary /January 2/09." Unlikely Mrs. Sans Whitmore, born 1837. RAS
Description: two women. The hairstyles and dress suggest that it was taken at the turn of the century. The donor indicated that the date of the photograph was May 1900. The subjects have been identified as Mrs. Flamen Ball Candler & Edith Candler (also known as Mrs. George L. Stebbins) by Anne Funderburk.
Description: Black and white copy of photograph of men working on and building mill. 3 men standing on roof to right with large pole, woman in front next to wood pile and man standing on ramp to door. Large piles of debris in the foreground. Badly deteriorated image original from a dying glass plate negative owned by Alice Smith
Description: A studio portrait of a dark-haired young man dressed in a suit, vest, tie, stand up collar shirt, with a watch fob on the vest. Inscription on the back: Harold C. Gore, 1901
Description: Letter from the Eastern Steamship Company in Boston, Massachusetts to the Bar Harbor Board of Trade in refrence to at check that was returned. The funds are to be used for purchasing advertising with the Eastern Steamship Company.