Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the National Park Service
Date:
1999
Description: Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials
Description: Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
Description: The Nathan Salisbury House Somesville. Summer. Four girls standing on lawn in front of house. Worn drive at left of house. Barn and shed in back. White house with black shutters. Five windows on front of second story. Threes sets shutters closed. Four windows on first floor front. Three windows on left side. Back of photo marked Decleen, Baker in Pencil. Also in pen Salisbury, Hysom to MacDonald House. Then in pencil Property of Philip M. Coughey. [show more]
Description: Fair Oaks Farm. Copied from Post card. James Richardson Homestead in Sound. Presently owned by Kay Tracy Moore. Barn in foreground, homestead in background. Rough bridge over stream. Object has not been renumbered because as of 1/13/2022 the item could not be located.
Description: Echo Lake from route 102 across from Echo Vista. Small boat with outboard motor anchored off shore. Changing house on shore. Ramp runs from shore to platform outside changing house. Boat ramp to the right. Gift of M.L. Hughs.
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 gable end. Chimney with stovepipe insert extends above roof line. Car to right with open door. Man stands in front of post office door watching a second man shovel snow. [show more]
Description: Houses on Main street Somesville. Somes Cove in foreground. Marked, “Somes Cove, Mt. Desert” in lower right corner. House on left is historic Lewis Somes house. See same photo. on p. 8, Album #1 (997-306-471)
Description: Horses hitched to buckboards along street. Men sit in carriages or stand next to them. To the left are grass squares and saplings. Across street three large buildings. Middle building holds R.F. Suminsby, smaller builing next door, sign read [----] Stevens. Stamped on back with LaRue Spiker, P O Box 625, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679. "Auto War" in red crayon