Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Maine

Abstract 0846 Bertha Price, interviewed by Jolene Walker, Alison Bishop, Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, and Celeste Beaulieu for AY 125, October and December 1974, Argyle, Maine. Price talks about growing up on a farm at the turn of the 20th century; social customs; clothing; various aspects of farm life; outside of house; layout of rooms; furnishings; activities done in some rooms. Text: 19 pp. index; 29 pp. transcript. Recording: mfc_na0846_t0780_01, mfc_na0846_t0780_02, mfc_na0846_t0781_01,...

Abstract NA1212 Blanche Smith, interviewed by Stephen Richard, December 13, 1978, for AY 125, fall 1978, Veazie, Maine. Smith talks about Veazie history and her house at 46 School Street, Veazie; how her father moved the house from Main Street to its current location around 1910; previous owner of the house was Cap Dwelly; her father retrieving the ell from the River Road, in the basement of the ell is a hand-hewn timber dated 1812. Text: 13 pp., catalog. Recording: mfc_na1212_t1269_01,...

Scope and Contents

Collection contains architectural drawings and records of Edward Leander Higgins and his son Ambrose S. Higgins, including office records, specifications, plans and elevations, architectural renderings, correspondence and blueprints for a wide variety of buildings mostly in the state of Maine. Represented in the collection are plans for business, public and residential structures in Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Skowhegan, Portland, Camden and Cape Elizabeth among others.

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NA1209 William Aldrich, interviewed by Randi Weisbergerm, December 14, 1978, for AY 125, fall 1978, Veazie, Maine. Aldrich talks about his house at 1004 Olive Street, and the history of Veazie. Veazie History and Architecture Project. Text: 12 pp., catalog. Recording: mfc_na1209_t1267_01. (T 1267). Time: 1 hour.