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May 25, 1973. The Farnsworth Homestead is a historic house museum at 21 Elm Street in Rockland, Maine. Built in 1854 by William A. Farnsworth, it is an excellent late example of Greek Revival architecture, and was the home of Lucy Farnsworth, the major benefactor of the Farnsworth Art Museum, which owns the house and operates it as a museum ...
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, United States, is an art museum that specializes in American art. Its permanent collection includes works by such artists as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Henry Lane, Frank Benson, Childe Hassam, Will Barnet, and Maurice Prendergast, as well as a significant ...
January 4, 2012. The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic commercial heart of Rockland, Maine. Located on several blocks of Main Street (United States Route 1), the district has a well-preserved collection of commercial architecture dating from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, the period of the city's height as a ...
Rockland Public Library, built 1903–1904, is a Carnegie library designed by George Albert Clough. Rockland Public Library [20] Farnsworth Art Museum [21] Center for Maine Contemporary Art [22] Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education [23] Maine Lighthouse Museum [24] Maine Eastern Railroad [25] Maine Lobster Festival [26] North Atlantic ...
Rockland was one of three U.S. cities to make the cut, alongside Washington D.C. and Big Sky, Montana. ... 78, tosses a lobster trap back into the sea in Penobscot Bay in Maine on July 31, 2021 ...
44°33′58″N 68°48′09″W / 44.5661°N 68.8025°W / 44.5661; -68.8025 (Fort Knox) Waldo. Built in the aftermath of the 1830s border disputes, this granite fort, built but not finished between 1844 and 1869, is a fine mid-19th-century fortification. 12. Fort Western.
March 20, 1981. Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light is a historic lighthouse complex at the end of the Rockland Breakwater in the harbor of Rockland, Maine. Replacing a light station at Jameson Point (the northern end of the breakwater), the light was established in 1902, about two years after completion of the breakwater. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Now automated ...
As a history and art center in Southern Maine, the museum's collections include objects ranging from 19th-century paintings to shipbuilding tools, from 18th-century clothing to contemporary art. It is located in the heart of the Kennebunk Historic District , occupying 18,000 square feet of space in several buildings on Main Street.