Bar Harbor's Gilded Century

Opulence to Ashes

By (author) Lydia Vandenberg, Earle G. Shettleworth

Paperback - £14.99

Publication date:

16 August 2009

Length of book:

176 pages

Publisher

Down East Books

ISBN-13: 9780892727056

Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings. The area was once a shipbuilding and farming hamlet that became a Gilded Age resort of the highest order-until a fire in 1947 destroyed many of its buildings. This pictorial history takes Bar Harbor from its origins to the fire. It also offers intriguing curiosities, including insights on the upstairs-downstairs aspects of resort life. The book's captions are packed with fascinating information.