The Tides Institute’s Online Collections

Classification: Decorative arts Old Accession Number: 2253 Description: Alarm clock, c. 1880s. Clock has label for Forrest & Roche, jewelers, Water Street, Eastport, Maine. Made by Waterbury Clock Company of Waterbury, Connecticut.

Old Accession Number: 2228 C. 1710-1735. Chair came from Roger Segien's grandmothers (Emily Auclair, 1921–1995) house, Washington Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1820 Old Accession Number 2260 Description: Boston rocker. c. 1820. From Eastport, Maine house.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1830 Old Accession Number: 2261 Description: Boston rocker. c. 1830. From Eastport, Maine house.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1810 Old Accession Number: 3004 Description: Bow Front Chest of Drawers that originally came from Indian Island, New Brunswick.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2262 Description: Brass & iron standing lamp. c. 1900. From Eastport, Maine house.

From Hayden House, 17 Key Street, Eastport, Maine.

Gift from Susan Raye, Falmouth, Maine 2025 Susan said the desk came from the house of her great-great-grandfather, George Ferdinand Wadsworth (November 1, 1808 - May 15, 1903), at 62 High Street in Eastport, Maine. The desk then descended to George's son, Henry Howard Wadsworth (March 1, 1833 - February 10, 1934), and to his house at 22 Key Street. The desk then descended to Henry's daughter, Mary Howard Wadsworth (July 13, 1872 - November 6, 1970), who never married and lived at 22 Key Street until she died in 1970. Susan's father, Henry Wadsworth Raye (May 24, 1912 - August 5, 2002), got the desk around 1970 and kept it at his home in Eastport. His mother was Helen Prince (Wadsworth) Raye. The desk then descended to Susan Raye of Falmouth, Maine.

Circa: 1880 Old Accession Number: 2275 Description: Carved Wooden Corner Arm Chair. From Calais, Maine. c. 1880. Perhaps used in a photographer's studio.

A grand piano made by the Chickering and Sons piano company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1868. The piano serial number is: 32980. For many years, the piano was owned by Benjamin Whelpley, a pianist and composer of piano music, who was born in Eastport, Maine in 1864 and who had a long career in Boston. Whelpley maintained the family home, an impressive historic greek revival house, in Eastport where the piano long resided. Dennis Hooper, of Saint John, New Brunswick, recently related some of the story of Whelpley and the Chickering piano as Hooper used to spend weekends during the summer months in the Whelpley house in Eastport while Whelpley was still alive. According the Hooper, Benjamin Whelpley lived at the house when he was not performing elsewhere. The Chickering grand piano was given to Whelpley by the Chickering Piano company. The piano is hand carved and made of rosewood and copper strung. Benjamin Whelpley took the piano everywhere where he was performing. When he was at Eastport, Whelpley would give concerts at the house on Sundays and many people, including President Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt when they were at their summer cottage on nearby Campobello Island, New Brunswick, would come to hear the concerts. Whelpley died in 1946 and the piano remained in the house until 2007 when new owners of the house donated it to the Tides Institute. The piano remains in relative good shape and the Tides Institute hopes to have it restored and played again. Photo Caption: Grand piano made by the Chickering and Sons piano company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1868. For many years, the piano was owned by Benjamin Whelpley, a pianist and composer of piano music, who was born in Eastport, Maine in 1864 and who had a long career in Boston. Classification: Musical instruments Circa: 1868 Old Accession Number: 3009 Description: 1869 Chickering Grand Piano, Boston, Massachusetts. From Norwood House, 15 Key Street, Eastport. Gift of Christopher and Janet Palumbo, 15 Key Street, Eastport, Maine in 2007. Piano originally belonged to composer, Benjamin Whelpley, who once owned the Norwood House, 15 Key Street, Eastport, Maine. Piano serial number is: 32980. The piano was built in about 1868. Age dated using this website: http://www.total-piano-care.com/chickering-and-sons.html.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1880 Old Accession Number: 3014 Description: Cabinet came from Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 3012 Description: Gift of Ann French.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1885 Old Accession Number: 3013 Description: China Cabinet. From Naomi (Rutherford) Spencer house, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 3015 Description: China Cabinet. Has Paine Furniture Company (Boston, Massachusetts) label on back of cabinet. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert and Harriet Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 3016 Desk c.1840 from Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 3005 Dining Room Table, c.1890. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert and Harriet Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine. Made by Paine Furniture Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Old Accession Number: 2291 Eastlake chair. Gift of Gregory Noyes, 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2292 Eastlake chair. Gift of Gregory Noyes, 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2259 Eastlake chair. c.1860. From Washington Street Baptist Church, 36 Washington Street, Eastport, Maine.

Accession Number: 2286 Eastlake chair. Gift of Gregory Noyes, 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2283 Eastlake chair. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Gregory Noyes of 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2293 Eastlake living room chair, c. 1880. Furniture had come down through the Flagg Family of Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2294 Eastlake living room chair, c. 1880. Furniture had come down through the Flagg Family of Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2224 Eastlake living room chair, c. 1880. Furniture had come down through the Flagg Family of Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2255 Eastlake shelf clock, c. 1880s. From Calais, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 3002 Eastlake Side Table, c.1880. From 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Old Accession Number: 2284 Eastlake living room sofa, c. 1880. Furniture had come down through the Flagg Family of Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2282 Eastlake sofa. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Gregory Noyes of 122 Water Streeet, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2243 Description: Empire Chest of Drawers. Made by John Moore, cabinetmaker, St. Stephen, New Brunswick.

Dimensions: 22 7/8" wide by 32 3/4" high.

Old Accession Number: 3010 Empire Secretary Desk, c.1840. Desk came from the George Eaton House, 307 Main Street, Calais, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2231 From Free Will North Baptist Church, 82 High Street, Eastport, Maine.\ Chair was in Free Will North Baptist Church building when it was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2014.

Old Accession Number: 2230 From Free Will North Baptist Church, 82 High Street, Eastport, Maine. Sofa was in Free Will North Baptist Church building when it was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2014.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number 2274 Description: Empire Sofa. From Calais, Maine house. Gift of Alice Seelye, Key Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2300 Description: Empire Table. From 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Circa: 1825 Old Accession Number: 3007 Silas Hoadley, Plymouth, Connecticut. Federal Long Case Clock. From Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift from Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.

Furniture Old Accession Number: 2220 Federal Hepplewhite Pembroke Table. From Kelle Erikson of Eastport, Maine. She and her husband had got the table from a house on Adams Street in Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1780 Old Accession Number: 3023 From Calais, Maine house.

Old Accession Number: 3020 Federal period clock, c. 1830s. Eight day clock. Barns, Bartholomew & Company, Bristol, Connecticut, 1836-37. Barnes, Bartholomew & Co. 8-day shelf clock, 1833-1836 Gift from estate of Walter Emery, Sea Girt, New Jersey, 2018. Letter from Walter Emery: 605 Philadelphia Blvd. Sea Girt, N.J. 08750 December 3, 1998 Mr. Christopher Bailey c/o Bristol Clock Museum Bristol, Conn. 06810 Dear Mr. Bailey; At your request of my friend Stephen Petro, who visited your museum recently, I have enclosed pictures and brief comment on the clock that has been in my family for many years. As you can see from the pictures, it is an eight-day clock. However, it is not operated by springs. The weight on the extreme right of the picture with the door open is very heavy. The label to the left of the pendulum, states that it was repaired in Calais Maine October 5, 1942. The label above the pendulum, partly obscuring the words Brass Clocks, indicates that it was sold by S. Adams, Calais/Milltown, Maine. (The first label showed that it was repaired by George Adams.) We have used this clock, which kept very good time, but erratic striking of the hours, up until recently when it quit. We have been hesitant about having someone repair it, but hope to find a qualified repairman in our area. Thank you for your interest in this clock. We would appreciate any comments that you might have. Sincerely, Walter L. Emery

Gift from estate of Frances Whalen Strout, 2020. From Anna Whalen House, 7 Key Street, Eastport, Maine. An early 19th century mahogany sideboard that came down through one family in this region for over 200 years. It measures 74 inches long, 25 1/2 inches wide and 41 inches high. It was first owned by Seward Bucknam (1783-1868) and his wife Irene McLellan (1796-1865). Seward was born in Falmouth, Maine and then moved to Eastport, Maine at a young age. He became a well established merchant with stores and wharves on the south end of Eastport. Ellen Irene Bucknam (1826-1900) was their only child and daughter. She married Joseph Mason Livermore (1824-1872) and they eventually inherited the sideboard. They had eight children, among them Anna Bucknam Livermore (1859-1933). Anna’s first marriage to Albert Pike was short lived as he died shortly after they were married. She then married Lincoln Hamlin Newcomb (1860-1923), a lawyer. Anna inherited the sideboard from her parents. When Anna and her second husband died, the sideboard went to Anna’s younger sister, Sarah Preble Livermore Whalen Hayes (1867-1961), who married Leverett Mitchell Whalen (1850-1912) and then George Hume Hayes (1851-1935) after Leverett died. When the sideboard came to Sarah, it would have been in the large 7 Key Street house in Eastport that had been in the Whalen family for generations. It stayed in this house after Sarah’s death as the house and sideboard were inherited by Sarah’s daughter, Anna K. Whalen (1894-1986) who continued to live in the house until her death. Anna had no children and when she died, the house, sideboard and other household furnishings were inherited by Anna’s niece, Frances Whalen Strout (1933-2020). Frances sold the house and moved the sideboard and most of the household furnishings to her ranch style home with attached garage in Brewer, Maine. She converted her garage into a 19th century parlor room filled with the furnishings from her aunt’s Eastport house including the sideboard. Frances had no children and when she died the sideboard along with many with many other of the family furnishing were placed with the Tides Institute in 2020. A note found in the sideboard written by Frances reads: “Originally had black knobs. Henry Newcomb put on new brass pulls.” Federal Sideboard, c.1810. Gift from estate of Frances Whalen Strout, 2020. From Anna Whalen House, 7 Key Street, Eastport, Maine. Anna Whalen was the aunt of Frances Whalen Strout. Sideboard was first owned by Seward Bucknam of Eastport, Maine. One note from Frances Whalen Strout reads: "Seward Bucknam, born June 7, 1783, owned this sideboard." Another note from Frances Whalen Strout reads: "The Livermore sideboard - once was Aunt Nan's - at her death went to Sara P. Whalen Hayes. Originally had black knobs. Henry Newcomb put on new brass pulls." Email from Margaret Whalen, July 6, 2022: "I think I figured the history of that sideboard out. Here goes: Joseph Mason Livermore (1824-1872) married Ellen Irene Bucknam (1826-1900); the sideboard must have come to them from Ellen’s family. (Joseph and Ellen were my great-great-grandparents. It was she who must have made the crazy quilts, based on Grandpa’s letter to me.) They had eight (8!) children, among them Anna Bucknam Livermore (1859-1933). She was known in the family as Aunt Nan; her first marriage was to Albert Pike, who died pretty young. She then married Lincoln Hamlin Newcomb (1860-1923), a lawyer who was known as Linc. When they died, the sideboard went to Anna/Nan’s younger sister, Sarah Preble Livermore Whalen Hayes (1867-1961), who married Leverett Mitchell Whalen (1850-1912) and then George Hume Hayes after Leverett died. When the sideboard came to Sarah, it would have been in the 7 Key Street house, where it stayed under Anna K. Whalen’s stewardship until she died in 1986. From there it went to Dimpy’s house, where it stayed until it was given to the Tides Institute in 2020." Seward Bucknam, born in Falmouth, July 7, 1783, died Feb. 14, 1868, aged 84. His wife Anna died Nov. 22, aged 38. His wife Irene, died Oct. 19, 1865, aged 69. Ellen Irene Bucknam (1826-1900) was the daughter of Seward Bucknam (1783-1868) and Irene McLellan (1796-1865)

Old Accession Number: 3008 Federal/Empire Secretary Desk, c.1820. From the Emery family home, Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Obituary for Joyce Emery Kinney (Emery) September 20, 1924 — October 4, 2016 Eastport – Joyce Emery Kinney, born September 20, 1924, the daughter of Roscoe C. and Vera (Leonard) Emery died October 4, 2016. Mrs. Kinney was predeceased by her husband Grover Bradford Kinney of Eastport and Auburn. Mrs. Kinney is survived by her brother, Walter Emery and his wife Violet of Sea Girt, NJ; nephew Scott Emery, M.D., and his first wife, Carla Hellekson, M.D., and their children, Olivia and Teal Emery of Seattle, WA. Joyce Kinney graduated from Shead Memorial High School, class of 1941, W.S. Normal School in Machias, class of 1945, the U. of Maine at Orono, in 1948 where she also received her Master’s in Education in 1955. Mrs. Kinney taught school most of her life: Vanceboro, 1945-47 and Thomaston, CT, 1948-50. In September 1950 Mrs. Kinney began teaching for the American Dependent Schools in Japan; first at Tagajo, then as a traveling teacher for the Island of Shikoku; in 1952 at Eta Jima and in 1953 at the U.S. Navy Dependent School at Yokosuka. After returning to the States, Mrs. Kinney taught at Lincoln, Kittery and Farmington. She returned to Eastport in 1959 and worked as a secretary in her father’s real estate and insurance business. In 1960 she founded the Border Historical Society; the first meeting was held in Elm Cottage, the family home, and she served many times as president of that organization. In 1969 Mrs. Kinney began teaching grades 1-4 Remedial Reading in Eastport. She developed Pernicious Anemia in 1973 and increasing weakness made early retirement necessary. One of the original members of the Saint Croix Garden Club, Mrs. Kinney was vice president the first two years of the club’s existence, and the third year served as president. Mrs. Kinney’s interest in local history led her to research the maritime history of eastern Washington County, and to publish the historical reference “Vessels of Way Down East” in 1989. Over a period of years Mrs. Kinney was guest speaker at the school classrooms, Retired Teachers and at Historical Society meetings. Her brief historical articles have been published in the Down East Coastal Press and the Quoddy Tides. Mrs. Kinney spent several of her later years researching the maritime history of western Washington County, using old newspaper files of the Eastport Sentinel, The Calais Advertiser and The Machias Union. Her manuscript of this extensive work remains unfinished. Mrs. Kinney was a member of the Machiasport Historical Society, the V.F.W. Auxiliary and the Eastport Nursing Home Auxiliary. A funeral service will begin at 3:00 p.m., Friday, October 7th at Blakey Memorial United Methodist Church, High St., Eastport. Burial will follow at Hillside Cemetery, Eastport. Arrangements by Mays Funeral Home, Calais & Eastport.

Old Accession Number: 2201 Originally from Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. Acquired from Joyce Emery Kinney of Eastport, Maine. Side board came from the Emery family Elm Cottage, 2 Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Joyce's father, Roscoe Emery who was involved with real estate as well as the Eastport Sentinel newspaper, had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage and its contents including this side board. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119 WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB

Fireplace Screen. Painted canvas landscape scene with decorative stenciled scrollwork border mounted on wood frame. 50 inches wide and 35 inches high. Date: c.1870. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Ross Y. Furman, 2022. Part of the Ross Y. Furman Advance Collection.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1904 Old Accession Number: 2244 Description: Oak Fraternal Lodge Chair. Made by the Karpen Furniture, Chicago, Illinois. From Odd Fellows Hall, Leighton Point Road, Pembroke, Maine. Gift of Anna Albani, Boston, Massachusetts.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2295 Description: Gothic Chair. Part of a set of five Gothic chairs trom 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2296 Description: Gothic Chair. Part of a set of five Gothic chairs trom 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2297 Description: Gothic Chair. Part of a set of five Gothic chairs trom 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2298 Description: Gothic Chair. Part of a set of five Gothic chairs trom 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2299 Description: Gothic Chair. Part of a set of five Gothic chairs trom 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 3301 Description: Gothic Side Table. From 1828 Seaman's Church building. 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine that was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2016.

Old Accession Number: 2216 Hotel East Desk, c.1900. From the Hotel East, Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2264 Description: Iron bed. c.1880. From Calais, Maine house.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2188 Description: Gift from estate of Winifred and Rowland French estate, Eastport, Maine. Clock originally belonged to Winifred’s mother, D. Lucille Brown.

A hand made wooden thumb back / arrow back chair that was made in Eastport, Maine by chair maker, Joseph Very. It dates to about 1822. Written in stencil on the underside of the chair seat are the words: “Warranted, Eastport by J. Very.” Little is known about Very. He evidently was born in Salem, Massachusetts in about 1793 and moved to Eastport some time in the early 19th century. He began making wooden chairs shortly after this and quickly became involved in a chair making war with a competing business person selling chairs in Eastport. An advertisement by Very in the Eastport Sentinel of April 13, 1822 reads: “Great Cry and Little Wool. The Subscriber observing a puffing advertisement in the last Eastport Sentinel, ‘City Chairs’ is induced to inform the public that he has taken a shop in this place … where he now carries on the Chair Making Business in its various branches. Although he cannot, with propriety, give his work the title of ‘city chairs’ (which a certain chair vender calculates a great recommendation) yet he will give them a more substantial title, that of WARRANTED CHAIRS, a name which he thinks the ‘city chairs’ are not entitled to, and will suit purchasers far better in the end.” Two years later, in 1824, Very was still advertising his Warranted Chairs along with his intentions of going into the painting business which he claimed he had 16 years of experience in. The chair was purchased by the Tides Institute from an individual in Eastport in 2018 just before the chair was to go up for auction. Very died in Eastport in 1831 at the age of 38. Photo Caption: Hand made wooden thumb back / arrow back chair that was made in Eastport, Maine by chair maker, Joseph Very. It dates to about 1822. Old Accession Number: 3019 Chair made in Eastport, Maine, c.1825. Name of maker and Eastport is on bottom of seat reads: Warranted by J.[Joseph] Very, Eastport. Advertisement from Eastport Sentinel, March 27, 1824, p. 3: House, Ship & Sign Painting. The Subscriber informs the Public, that he intends carrying on the PAINTING BUSINESS in the above branches the ensuing season, and having had sixteen years experience in the business, feels confident of getting ample satisfaction to this employers. Constantly on hand at his Shop in Boyenton-street, (one door east of Capt. Swett's Hotel) a dozen warranted CHAIRS (not city made) which will be sold low for cash or exchanged for the going currency of the place (i.e.) Pollock Fish, Herring, Oil or Lumber. Employment solicited by the public's Humble Servant, JOSEPH VERY. Eastport, March 27 ________ Eastport Sentinel, March 2, 1831: Deaths: In Eastport, 24 Feb 1831, Maj. Joseph VERY, 38y, f/o Salem, MA

Classification: Musical instruments Old Accession Number: 2212 Circa: 1885 Description: Gift of Paul and Elizabeth Bush, Eastport, Maine.

A late 19th century parlor (also known as a cabinet) organ made by William Leighton of Pembroke, Maine. Essentially a reed organ, this parlor organ has pedal-operated bellows and is mounted in a case. This parlor organ stands 76 inches tall, 46 inches wide and 23 inches deep. It is one of three different parlor organs made by Leighton and his brother, Raymond, in the collections of the Tides Institute. Two were made by William, one by Raymond. All three date to the early 1880s. Together the two brothers produced about 600 parlor organs in a five year span between 1800 to 1885. The Institute has a small sales catalogue titled “Wm. E. Leighton & Co. Cabinet Organs” in its collections that dates to 1881. The catalogue was designed and printed by J.A. Sears, printer, of Calais, Maine. The catalogue notes this particular parlor organ as Case No. 3 which came in several styles that are outlined in the catalogue. The institute acquired this organ through Ebay from a seller in California. It cost far more to have the organ shipped east to the institute’s headquarters than it cost to purchase the organ. The other two Leighton parlor organs in the institute’s collections were donated to the institute by private individuals. Before starting the organ business, William Leighton served in the American Civil War, first with the 28th Maine Infantry Company E and later with the 1st Battalion Maine Infantry Company A. He was extremely active in the founding and leadership of the Pembroke, Maine Civil War GAR. (Grand Army of the Republic) veterans organization (Isaac Campbell Post, No.1). The institute was given a large number of artifacts related to this GAR post in early 2020 and William Leighton’s name is found on many of the artifacts. In addition to parlor organs, William Leighton also made violins and the institute has four of his violins in its collections. Classification: Musical instruments Circa: 1885 Old Accession Number: 2211 Description: Purchased on Ebay from Lyle Wheeler of California in 2004.

A round wooden table with a series of coat of arms inlaid on its top. The top of the table is about 43 inches in diameter and the table stands about 29 inches tall. The table long resided in the historic Lincoln house in Dennysville, Maine, and likely dates to the early 19th century, but the actual date and origin of the table are still to be determined. The Lincoln house was built beginning in 1787 for Theodore Lincoln, son of American Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln, who led a group of Massachusetts proprietors that had been granted thousands of acres in the area. Local lore claims that the table was one of four such tables presented by French general Lafayette to American general Washington’s top four generals including Benjamin Lincoln. In 1968, a photograph of the table was sent to a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to see what they might suggest about the table’s history. They thought the table belonged to the style of the period around 1840, but that the inlaid coat of arms on the top of the table might have been added much later, perhaps around 1900. They had no information about any presentation of such tables by Lafayette to Washington’s generals and they could not identify the coat of arms on the table other than to say they were not associated with Lafayette. The table was purchased in about 1950 at auction from the last Lincoln family descendant to live in the Lincoln house by an individual who lived in nearby Eastport, Maine. This individual, in turn, gave it to their nephew who lived in New Jersey and there the table resided for nearly 50 years. The nephew promised the table to the Tides Institute upon his death and when he died in 2018 the table returned to the area and became part of the collections of the Tides Institute. Photo caption: Round wooden table with a series of coat of arms inlaid on its top. The table long resided in the historic Lincoln house in Dennysville, Maine, and likely dates to the early 19th century, but the actual date and origin of the table are still to be determined.  Gift from estate of Walter Emery, Sea Girt, New Jersey, 2018. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22268818/william-morang-emery William Morang Emery BIRTH 28 Nov 1878 DEATH 30 Aug 1964 (aged 85) BURIAL Hillside Cemetery Eastport, Washington County, Maine, USA From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135266620/anna-maxwell-lincoln Anna Maxwell Brown Lincoln BIRTH Jun 1857 Scotland DEATH 19 Mar 1951 (aged 93) Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA BURIAL Dennysville Cemetery Dennysville, Washington County, Maine, USA Show Map MEMORIAL ID 135266620 · View Source

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1840 Old Accession Number 2251 Description: American Renaissance Bed, c. 1840s. Bed is part of a bedroom suite of furniture that is original to the Milliken House. Bed is supposed to have been made in New Orleans for the original owner and builder, Benjamin Milliken, of Milliken House at the time the house was built in 1846.(M)

Old Accession Number: 2285 Martha Washington Chair. From Betty Lyman house, Perry, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2240 Description: Oak desk. From Eastport Sentinel Newpaper Office, Water Street, Eastport, Maine. Desk was used by Joyce's father, Roscoe Emery, at his newspaper office located on Water Street in Eastport, Maine. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2241 Description: From Oscar Whalen Law Office, Key Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Karen Spinney Theriault, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1840 Old Accession Number: 2256 Description: Ogee clock. Made in St. Stephen, New Brunswick by H. Hunt & Company. c.1840s.

Old Accession Number: 3017 Painted Chair, c.1830. From Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1840 Old Accession Number 2257 Description: Painted side chair. From Calais, Maine house. c. 1840-50.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2245 Description: Piano chair. From Free Will North Baptist Church, 82 High Street, Eastport, Maine. Chair was in Free Will North Baptist Church building when it was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2014.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2246 Description: Piano stool. From Free Will North Baptist Church, 82 High Street, Eastport, Maine. Chair was in Free Will North Baptist Church building when it was gifted to the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in 2014.

Wood box called "Pilgrim Box." From house in Eastport, Maine. Box dates to about 1670.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2242 Description: Queen Anne Drop Leaf Table. From Calais, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2218 Description: Large Round Tilt Top Table. From Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2219 Description: From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2250 Description: Rope bed. From Pembroke, Maine. Bed may have been made in Charlotte, Maine. Gift of Diane Glidden whose family was from Pembroke, Maine. Information from Diane Glidden: From: Comcast dianeglidden101@comcast.net Subject: AntiqueropebedfromPembroke Date: July 20, 2015 at 10:53 AM To: hfrench@tidesinstitute.org dear Hugh, here is the information about the bed that I brought when I was a child growing up in Pembroke in the early 50's the bed was stored in a bedroom in a deep closet. I lived with my parents and my little sister in my grandmother's house on Lincoln Ave.(now Little Falls rd.). she was Harriet Wilder Linnell and it was the house in which she grew up and then raised her own children . Her grandfather John Mincher came over from England in 1844with his wife and small son to work in the Pembroke iron works.He built the house soon after that. my grandmother passed on in 1958. The house was sold in 1965---80 acres of land, the large house, and 2 barns went for $1500 (unbelievable!). It was taken down In the mid 1970's and the entire hill was sold off for gravel. We still have land on Leighton Pt. rd. Which is where we stay when we are there. Art Carter thinks the bed may have been made in Charlotte because it looks just like one that was made in the factory there. I will send you the family story of the. Wilder sand Minchers when I learn how to use my new laptop. diane Glidden And on Leighton Pt. Rd. Which is where we stay when we are there. W Summer, 2021: Cory Critchley showed the photograph of the bed to Eileen Clark of the Charlotte (Maine) Historical Society. Eileen said the bed may have been made by the Clapp Furniture Factory that once existed in Charlotte at the corner of Smith Ridge Road and Route 214 (Ayers Junction Road).

A modern chamber organ that was constructed in 1961 by the Schlicker Organ Company of Buffalo, New York. It was built for noted American sculptor, Richard Lippold, of Locust Valley, New York and designed for solo and ensemble Renaissance and Baroque music. It is not a church organ, but is intended for chamber music. Hermann Schlicker was among the immigrant pioneers in the United States of the Baroque revival. He was active from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. The instrument is entirely mechanical, except for the electric blower which supplies wind. Mechanical linkage from keyboards and pedals opens valves beneath the pipes. The design is rendered in oak and mahogany, and brass and steel fittings. The pipes are copper, oak and tin. After the death of the chamber organ’s original owner in 2002, the organ was disassembled and stored in a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. The Tides Institute learned of the organ’s existence in 2016 from someone who knew the institute’s North Church space in Eastport, Maine and its exceptional acoustics. They thought the organ and North Church space would be a perfect match. The institute was able to purchase the disassembled organ and had the pieces transported to Eastport. In spring of 2018, the organ was reassembled and installed in the North Church space. That summer, an early music concert was performed in the space with Ensemble Abendmusik based in Boston with one of the world’s leading organists, James David Christie, giving inaugural performances with the organ.   Photo caption: Modern chamber organ reinstalled in the Tides Institute’s North Church space. The organ was constructed in 1961 by the Schlicker Organ Company of Buffalo, New York. Flentrop organ pipes: https://www.flentrop.nl/ukflentroporgan.html.

Old Accession Number: 2254 School house clock, c. 1860s. From Calais, Maine.

Gift of Ruth McInnis, 2026.

Gift from John Lester Raye, Canton, Connecticut, 2023 Telephone conversation with John Raye, October 19, 2023: John said the desk came from the house of his great-great-grandfather, George Ferdinand Wadsworth (November 1, 1808 - May 15, 1903), at 62 High Street in Eastport, Maine. The desk then descended to George's son, Henry Howard Wadsworth (March 1, 1833 - February 10, 1934), and to his house at 22 Key Street. The desk then descended to Henry's daughter, Mary Howard Wadsworth (July 13, 1872 - November 6, 1970), who never married and lived at 22 Key Street until she died in 1970. John's father, John Franklin Raye (September 27, 1918 - March 5, 2009), got the desk around 1960 and brought it to his home in Simsbury, Connecticut. His mother was Helen Prince (Wadsworth) Raye. John Franklin Raye had the desk restored by a well known furniture restorer in Riverton, Connecticut next to the historic Hitchcock Furniture Company. The desk then descended to his son, John Lester Raye, of Canton, Connecticut.

Gift from Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor, Maine, 2023. From FaceBook post for Tides Institute & Museum of Art, July 11, 2023: A CLOCK RETURNS! A tall (nearly 5 feet in length) wall clock that once graced the walls of our main building, the former Eastport Savings Bank building, in downtown Eastport, Maine has recently returned. We’re trying to find more about the history of the clock. We’re told the clock hung in the main lobby of the Eastport Savings Bank. Then after this bank was absorbed by the Bangor Savings Bank and a new branch building was built at the top of a hill on nearby Washington Street, the clock travelled there and hung in the conference room. A recent remodeling of this branch building did not allow for the clock to remain there. We made some inquiries and Bangor Savings Bank was willing to donate the clock to our collections and have the clock return to its original bank building home (now our main building). This is where it now is. We’re grateful to Bangor Savings Bank for their generosity and consideration. Now to find out more about the clock. It has a Seth Thomas clock face. But the large tall mahogany wooden case appears to have been custom built. Perhaps it was made to note an Eastport Savings Bank anniversary of some sort. We’re hoping someone may know more. Thank you. See FaceBook Comments below. The clock originally hung in the lobby of the First National Bank (later Fleet Bank) on Water Street in Eastport. Bangor Savings Bank took over Fleet Bank and moved the clock to their new Eastport Branch bank building on Washington Street in Eastport. Ann Marie Bellefleur Bonita L. Smith do you have any information on this clock? Bonita L. Smith Ann Marie Bellefleur when Bangor savings move the clock from the old fleet bank. It was cleaned and put into working condition by the clock dock at that time from Dennysville. Bonita L. Smith That would’ve been 1996 Bonita L. Smith Ann Marie Bellefleur no. I only only know that it hung for a long time across the street at Merrill trust bank. Lou Esposito was the manager at the time I began working for Bangor Savings Bank . When Bangor Savings acquired fleet. We took the clock from the old fleet bank, and put it at the Bangor Savings Bank on Washington Street. I don’t remember it ever having been at the old Bangor Savings Bank/E sport savings bank. I only remember it being on the wall at the bank across the street which would’ve been the old fleet building. Hugh French Bonita L. Smith Thank you very much. Do you recall which wall the clock hung on at the old Fleet Bank branch on Water Street? Bonita L. Smith Hugh French yes 👍 n the same side as the front door. Hugh French Bonita L. Smith Thank you ever so much! Brian Smith Very impressive! Michelle Wilson Stanhope How about asking Andy and Nancy Seeley? He was the Bangor Saving manager when I was a kid in the building that is now the Tides Institute. Reading through the comments another person who may know is Carolyn Baxter. She worked at the old Merrill Bank . Lori Williams ODonnell I grew up in Thomaston CT, there is a Facebook page of Thomaston History where people discuss the clocks, someone may have some information. My grandparents are from Deer Island, a great Aunt from DI worked at Seth Thomas Clocks during the 30’s and 40’s. James Pollowitz This is a great discovery. Alden Chandler Terrific! Ann Marie Bellefleur This is great news. I worked with this clock for 23 years but never knew where it came from Bonita L. Smith Ann Marie Bellefleur I’m surprise that you didn’t remember that we moved it from the old fleet branch in 1996 Ann Marie Bellefleur Bonita L. Smith I thought so but wasn’t sure Tedeke Muri Seth Thomas also made metronomes. I have one.

Old Accession Number: 2221 From the Dennison House, East Machias, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2236 Sheraton Chest of Drawers, c.1830. Gift from Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, 2 Elm Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2217 Description: From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2281 Sheraton Sofa, c.1820. Gift from Gregory Noyes, 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine. From Grady House, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1860 Old Accession Number: 2215 Description: From the U.S.S. Wabash. Gift of Ruth McInnis, Eastport, Maine in memory of her son, Bruce McInnis. The Civil War Ship, The Wabash, was burned at Broad Cove, Eastport, Maine on June 26, 1913.

Old Accession Number: 3006 Side Board, c.1890. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert and Harriet Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2239 Description: Victorian side table with marble top. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.

Six board blanket chest. Circa 1710-1735. From Roger Segien grandmother's (Emily Auclair) house, Washington Street, Eastport, Maine.

From CLOCKMAKERS, WATCHMAKERS, and CASEMAKERS of the STATE of MAINE, 1700 -1925, Compiled by Donn Haven Lathrop: ADAMS, Smith Bangor, Milltown, Calais 1828-1901

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1870 Accession Number: 2237 Description: Steeple Clock, c.1870s. Waterbury Clock Company, Waterbury, Connecticut. Clock is originally from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119 WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB

Old Accession Number: 2187 Stickley Desk. Circa 1906-1908. Has Stickley marking. From Winifred and Rowland French estate, 16 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.(M)

Classification: Furniture Circa: 1890 Old Accession Number: 2214 Description: From a Water Street, Eastport, Maine store.

Old Accession Number: 3011 1869 Taylor & Farley Melodeon of Worcester, Massachusetts. From Weston House Bed and Breakfast, 26 Boynton Street, Eastport, Maine. Weston House innkeepers, John and Jett Peterson, purchased the Weston House from the Ray family who had the melodeon in the house and the melodeon came to the Petersons as part of the sale of the house. A Ray family member, Amy Ray, thought that the Ray family had acquired the melodeon from George Call who lived on Shackford Street in Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2287 Description: Victorian Dining Chair #1. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2288 Description: Victorian Dining Chair #2. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2289 Description: Victorian Dining Chair #3. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2290 Description: Victorian Dining Chair #4. Gift of John Pike Grady, Eastport, Maine. From the Herbert Kilby house 122 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2258 Description: Victorian rocking chair. c.1870. From Eastport, Maine house.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2252 Description: Upholstered Victorian Side Chair, c. 1890s. Chair came from the Milliken House, 29 Washington Street, Eastport, Maine. But Mary Williams said the chair had originally come from the Fremont Bibber House, 72 Washington Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Mary Williams, owner of the Milliken House Bed and Breakfast, 29 Washington Street, Eastport, Maine.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2263 Description: Victorian sofa, c.1870-1890. From Milliken House, 29 Washington Street, Eastport, Maine.

Gift from estate of Frances Whalen Strout, 2020. From Anna Whalen House, 7 Key Street, Eastport, Maine.

Gift from estate of Frances Whalen Strout, 2020. From Anna Whalen House, 7 Key Street, Eastport, Maine

From Hayden House, 17 Boynton Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Sydney Hungerford, Eastport, Maine.

One of thirteen wooden benches at the Central Congregational Church building, 26 Middle Street, Eastport, Maine made by W.O. Haskell, Boston, Massachusetts. Benches are 84" long by 34" high. The Haskell label is on the bottom of many of the bench seats.

Classification: Furniture Old Accession Number: 2200 Description: Gift of sisters Ann Harrison and Betsy Canney. Clock was a wedding or wedding anniversary gift to their parents, Alice Hume and William Sleight, Eastport, Maine.

Old Accession Number: 2232 One of four Windsor chairs that originally came from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. John Melby says the chair is a reproduction. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119 WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB

Old Accession Number: 2233 One of four Windsor chairs that originally came from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. John Melby says the chair is a reproduction. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119 WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB

Old Accession Number: 2234 One of four Windsor chairs that originally came from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. John Melby says the chair is a reproduction. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119 WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB

Old Accession Number: 2235 One of four Windsor chairs that originally came from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport. John Melby says the chair is a reproduction. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine. From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119 WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB

Note discovered in one of the top small drawers of the Winthrop desk in the collections of the Tides Institute & Museum of Art after it had been donated by the estate of Walter Emery: "The Winthrop desk owned by my sister, Cornelia, came to her through my grandmother who was a Weldon and was probably much over 100 years old. The desk was maple and was in good condition when my sister received it, as the people who had it were careful of it." Note on file in collections of Tides Institute & Museum of Art. Gift from estate of Walter Emery, 2018.

Two wooden “curtain” rods, 2 3/4 inches in diameter; one is 118” (9 feet, 10 inches) long and the other is 113” (9 feet, 5 inches). Date: 1840. From Grady house, 1 Adams Street, Eastport, Maine. Gift of Ross Y. Furman, 2022. Part of the Ross Y. Furman Advance Collection.