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FOLDER 1 AERIALS
Foreground 6 Background map 4
Lookout Hotel looks down on this area
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.]
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 1
Aerial view looking NE towards ocean
Lookout Hotel
Ontio Hotel
Hoyt Tower
Shore Rd.
Copy of original
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: 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 1
George Pike's sawmill, showing lumber cut and to be cut. It was located off Cole Hill's Road, next to the Merryland River on southside of the river and the east side of the road.
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 4
Photo of the doorway of the Eldridge Tavern, now a private home.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 1
Aerial view of the First Church also showing Murray's Restaurant and cabins, c. 1950s
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 19
Helen and Wesley Rutledge's Antique Shop, 1937
Corner of Bourne Ave. N. and Route 1, Moody; now (2010) the site of Jake's Restaurant.
OGUNQUIT - ART GALLERIES FOLDER 1
Ogunquit, Shore Rd.
Ogunquit Art Association
Now (2007) the location of Sea Chambers
2 prints
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 12A
Photographic postcard by Leroy Nason of three kittens drinking from a saucer. Titled "Feedtime."
Relation to P91-2.13.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 1
Two images of library of the Historical Society showing school teachers doing research for articles on History Days, October 1992.
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.
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 22
Winter snow scene of Moody Post Office & Store on the west side of Post Road in Wells, circa 1950s. Donated by Delia Moody, long-time post mistress at Moody.
OGUNQUIT - ART GALLERIES FOLDER 3
Perkins Cove, Ogunquit
Ogunquit Art Center
OGUNQUIT - AERIALS FOLDER 3
Aerial view of Sparhawk Hotel
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 1
Historical Society's sign from 1994
WELLS - Beaches
Color postcard of lifeguard station monitoring bathers on beach in Wells or Ogunquit. Reverse captions:
"One of several fine beaches along the Wells-Ogunquit shoreline on Maine's picturesque coast. / ME1067 - Color photo by Robert Elliot. / Natural Color by Mike Roberts, Berkeley 2, Calif. / Published by Bromley & Company, Inc., Boston 16, Mass."
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 - BUSINESSES FOLDER 4
Photo of Clark's Lighthouse Shop on Post Road.
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 12A
Copy prints of a black cat posed in bed. Was in a cracked frame.
WELLS - BUSINESSES FOLDER 4
Doorway of the Joseph Sayer house on Harbor Road, now (2010) apartment housing.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 1
Four photos of the Ogunquit Fire Department using the ladder truck to secure loosened trim on the first level of the Society's steeple, Spring 1996.
WELLS - CHURCHES FOLDER 5
Merriland Ridge Methodist Church interior and altar. "After the 1947 fires this building was donated to Newfield ME to replace their church that burned." - Hope Shelley