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WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 4
Photo of the doorway of the Eldridge Tavern, now a private home.
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 9
Copy print aerial view of pink granite quarry on Quarry Road in Wells in summer 1957. Accompanied by a detailed description, noting that most of the cut blocks in the storage yard (upper left) were used in the 1957 construction of Seagram Plaza in New York City, and identifying the roughly square uncut section to the right of the yard (towards the bottom of the side farthest from camera) as cut in December 1957 for use in the 1958 WWII and Korea additions to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia.
Relation to Objects 482 (originally listed as P95-19)
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 2
Copy of original photo made for postcards of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wells,1948. Postcard reads "Catholic Church, Wells Beach, Webhannet, Maine". Now has been turned into condos (Haven by the Sea, as of 2024).
OGUNQUIT - ART GALLERIES FOLDER 1
Ogunquit, Shore Rd.
Ogunquit Art Association
Now (2007) the location of Sea Chambers
2 prints
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER #21
Wells / Moody location, on the Post Road South of the Unity Inn
Blacksmith shop of Charles Hurd
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 3
Lookout Hotel
Ontio Hotel
Beachmere
Ogunquit Beach
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 1
Interior view of First Church of Wells from the balcony. Note the old light fixtures and the old organ to the left of the altar, c. 1920.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 3
Two identical copy prints of the interior of the Highpine Baptist Church, showing the pulpit and the glass bulb chandelier.
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 1
Aerial view looking NE towards ocean
Lookout Hotel
Ontio Hotel
Hoyt Tower
Shore Rd.
Copy of original
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 20
Village Inn (formerly Unity Inn) in Moody, west side Post Road, south side Kimball Lane in Moody. Opposite Bourne homestead. An Inn which served meals and also prepared hat lunches for Moody school pupils in mid-1940s. Photographed by Hope Shelley in the 1990s.
WELLS: CHURCHES FOLDER #1
Steeple repair on First Church, Post Road, Wells (now the Meetinghouse Museum) in the early 1920s. Two workers stand on staging; one of them has been identified as John Guest.
[Edit Dec. 2023: Final decimal added to Object ID.]
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 15
Murray's Restaurant and and Cabins, located on the west side of Route 1, south of the Meetinghouse. The restaurant barn was replaced by a motel; the house was turned into Maxmillian Restaurant and then torn down when replaced by CVS. Cabins out back were sold individually. Photographed by Edward Hipple and purchased from his estate in 1994.
[Edit Jan. 2024: Final decimal added to Object ID.]
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 12A
Two copy prints of a deer in the surf, probably trying to get off black flies.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 5
Merriland Ridge Methodist Church interior. "Mrs. Ida E. West, 90, Maryland Ridge, Wells, occupies her pew for the last time." "After the 1947 fires this building was donated to Newfield ME to replace their church that burned." - Hope Shelley
Notable reverse inscription.
OGUNQUIT - ART GALLERIES FOLDER 3
Perkins Cove, Ogunquit
Ogunquit Art Center
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 3
Aerial view of Ontio Hill area
Lookout Hotel
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 9
27 original prints of pink granite quarry, Quarry Road, in the Highpine section of Wells, and associated sites. Photographed by Swenson Co., Concord, NH.
Originally in operation from 1927 to around 1970 and reopened in 2000 as Millennium Granite, its distinctive stone contributed to such projects as Seagram Plaza in New York City; the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery; the Rayburn House Office Building and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Federal Building in Manchester, NH; and locally in the Wells Harbor jetties and Fisherman's Cove.
Most images likely summer 1955; set of railroad side track photos dated summer 1928.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 5
Merriland Ridge Methodist Church interior and pews. "After the 1947 fires this building was donated to Newfield ME to replace their church that burned." - Hope Shelley
Notable reverse inscription.
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 3
Marginal Way
Ogunquit River
Beachmere
Lookout Hotel
Ontio Hotel
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 8
Possibly the Spencer Press building in Industrial Park off of Route 109 near turnpike entrance.
Black and white photo - photographer and date unknown
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 4
Staircase from the Samuel Curtis house on Post Road, showing stencil design and handrail. Now (2010) it is Joshua's Restaurant.
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 3
42 prints of river bed at low tide and cribbing for former wharves off of Upper Landing Road in Wells (Birch Tree Landing). Taken by Allan Schwarte and used for a maritime history exhibit on local "working waterfronts."
Images not in original order.
OGUNQUIT - ART GALLERIES FOLDER 2
Hoyt's Lane, Ogunquit
Village Studio art gallery
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 1
Ogunquit looking N towards ocean