Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date
1698	View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Businesses, Lodging Business, Hotel & Motel Business			1886 c.	View looking toward the Wedge and the Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor Item: 1698    Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Businesses, Lodging Business, Hotel & Motel Business Date: 1886 c. Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: Photograph taken from the area of the Samuel Gilpatrick Homestead looking toward the Rock End Hotel, near Gilpatrick Cove Northeast Harbor. In the foreground is Herman Savage's cottage, "The Wedge," designed by his architect brother, Fred L. Savage, in 1885. Two children stand on the side of the road, and an unidentified structure is visible beyond the hotel. In the distance, the northern shores of Great Cranberry Island can be seen. The Rock End Hotel was originally called the Revere House and was opened by Herman L. Savage in the summer of 1884. The Wedge was built by A. Torrey, a contractor from Southwest Harbor, in the winter of 1885-1886. The Rock End Hotel burned in March, 1942. The Wedge was purchased by the Roberts family and remodeled in 1944-45, following plans by Philadelphia architect Edmund Gilchrist. It remains a private residence today. [show more]
1648	Photographs of Main Street Northeast Harbor, circa 1935	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Businesses, Transportation Business Organizations, Municipal			1935 c.	Photographs of Main Street Northeast Harbor, circa 1935 Item: 1648    Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Businesses, Transportation Business Organizations, Municipal Date: 1935 c. Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: 6 modern reproduction photographs showing Main Street, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935. Four views show the Municipal Building/Firehouse, and three show fire engines parked in front of the building, including the 1927 American LaFrance Ladder Truck "William S. Grant." Another photograph shows buses parked to the south of the municipal building, belong to Maine Transportation (?), a subsidiary of the Maine Central Railroad Company. Another photograph shows two buses belonging to the Boston & Maine Transportation Company parked behind Manchester Bros. Garage. Another photograph shows the steamer J.T. Morse landing at the steamboat wharf in Northeast Harbor [show more]
1587	Fire trucks parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Fire Protection			1935	Fire trucks parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, circa 1935 Item: 1587    Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Fire Protection Date: 1935 Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: Two fire engines parked in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor. A bus is parked the left of the Municipal Building, parked closer to Manchester Brothers' Garage. The truck on the left may be the Northeast Harbor Fire Company's 1926 Maxim Pumper, while that on the right is the ladder truck W.S. Grant, a 1927 American La France. This photograph was taken following the remodeling of the the Municipal Building, which was completed in 1934. [show more]
1588	Carlton Taylor outside of the Municipal Building with the Fire Company Vehicles, circa 1955	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Fire Protection	Chase - Ronald Chase		1955	Carlton Taylor outside of the Municipal Building with the Fire Company Vehicles, circa 1955 Item: 1588    Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Businesses, Other Business Organizations, Fire Protection Creator: Chase - Ronald Chase Date: 1955 Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: Carlton Taylor standing in front of the Municipal Building, Northeast Harbor, with the vehicles of the Northeast Harbor Fire Company lined up.

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