1902 Completed Tinaline 1901 9/05 -ACTPR-See - 1896, - Publication of Charles Elist foodscape see 1900, Archtret b cw Eliot. MT DESERT NURSERIES - Trip to Grand Conyon - Death of mary Dorr 10/21/01 -Fund - Death of raising 9/22/07 Dorr (9/79/02) Energon Hall, Howard - - Dedication of Dorr Menorial (8/29/47) of of discuss Judgetetors intensive 7/6 Sorridaracter achetron Borendaries actrade (8da) - Dorris involvest in HCTPR many many death by (incompareted 9/12/01 preceded 5 weeks see BHVIA, 7/9/01. * - Origins of HETPR, Dorr's Story, pg. 3-5 - -Dorr on Harvard Uniting Comm. Noted on "Philosoph at Haward "by H. Minsterberg Note @ Munsterberg on overcrowded conditions in Dane Hall ee add HGM see 1900. - GBD to SA Elid (11/11/24) on origin of HeTPR + LNP. Park begins at Seal Herber meeting - algin's of Aeadra (Ne 2/26/92) to Drury. -Harriage of Jr.to Abby ( 10/9/01) - Teddy Coonvelt leaves North Creek train station (9/14) to asicn Prendency following McKmilagrassas, -Athletic field future paid office site acquired GBD george B. Dorr DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT November 11, 1924. SA. / Dear Dr. Eliot: I am sorry there should have been delay in sending you the publications. There are only two or three that might be of use to you. The Park is still in the making and its full story is not written. What I enclose is: (1) A Government publication, issued three years ago and entitled Rules and Regulations but contain- ing as its main contents a paper by myself, on the region and the Park; (2) A publication written by Mr. Robert Sterling Yard, executive secretary of the National Parks Association, who spent the summer of 1923 at Southwest Harbor and wrote the paper on his return to Washington. Certain others, of a historical or descriptive nature, were issued earlier, under the title of The Sieur de Monts Publications, at my own expense, but I cannot at the moment put my hand on copies of them. The Park had its inception in the meeting called by your father in 1901 at Seal Harbor to discuss the formation of a corporation for acquiring and holding in the public interest scenically important lands upon Mount Desert Island. It was attended by less than a dozen people, whose names I do not all recall but which could be recovered doubtless from the 2. records of the Corporation. That Corporation was modelled, as you know, on the one founded by your brother in the State of Massachusetts. The year previous, 1900, I had endeavored to get a tept forestry association started on the Island with a similar aim, 1900 but had got no further than some promises of subscription and a forestry survey of the Island by the then recently established United States Forest Service, which approved the. project. This was dropped on the formation of the Public Reservations Cor- poration, which was granted freedom from taxation by the Legislature at its next ensuing meeting. The Trustees' first gift of land came from Mrs. . Charles D. Homans, consisting of the Bowl and Beehive tract at the southern end of Newport Mountain which she had purchased in connection with her home below upon the shore by Schooner Head. This was not till the summer of 1908, seven years after organization. 1908 My own active work in connection with the Corporation resulted from this gift and the encouragement it gave. The following autumn and winter I secured with the aid of Mr. John S. Kennedy the summit of Green Mountain, which I held to be the one spot on the Island most liable to disfigurement, having had two hotels upon it in my memory and a cog railroad up its side from Eagle Lake to supply the second. 3. Newport, Pickett and Dry Mountains followed, secured through individual gifts; Pemetic, Jordan, and Sargent through subscription. Dondemnation rights granted the Trustees for the protection of the Eagle Lake and Jordan Pond water supplies, after a campaign of education, resulted in acquiring the entire drainage basins of these lakes, linking the mountain tracts to- gether. At the end of four years, in the autumn of 1912, reservations so extensive had been secured as to endanger the 1912 Trustees' charter rights and freedom from taxation, our counsel, Judge Deasy, told me, unless development of the tract in the public interest -- more than its mere holding -- could be shown. It was necessary, in fact, to defend it that winter before the State Legislature, which I did. In consequence of this, it was de- - cided, after consultation with President Eliot, president of the Corporation, to offer its major holdings to the National Government for a Federal reserve. President Wilson's administration was inaugurated the following March. I went to Washington and had a talk on 1913 the subject with his Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Franklin K. Lane, who received the plan encouragingly. A year later I went again carrying deeds which were submitted to the Public Lands Commission, who examined them and reported favorably on a cceptance but required perfected titles and that the tract to be thus accepted by the Government should be bounded by a single line. 4. Two years later, in the spring of 1916, I returned to Washington with deeds that were passed upon as satisfactory, conveying a tract bounded by a single line and free from any and all rights or easements -- leaving outside the tract to be accepted by the Government lands held by the Trustees that could not be connected with it physically or over which private or corporate rights of one kind or another still existed. After conference with the Biological Survey and other friends of the project at Washington, and with the approval of Secretary Lane, it was decided to offer the tract to form a national monument under the Monument Act passed under President Roosevelt in 1906. This required action only by the President and the Secretary of the Interior. No funds were involved, the lands being conveyed to the Government in free gift. After various obstacles that threatened the project had been overcome, and a delay of some months, the tract was finally proclaimed by the President as the Sieur de Monts National Monument, in a proclamation drawn up by the Secretary of the Interior, on the 8th of July, 1916. Two years later it received its first appropriation for protection, maintenance and develop- ment from the Government, accompanied by the statement that its status should be changed to that of a national park, in which class it belonged. That fall a bill, making it a 5. Lafayette National Party National Park, was approved by the Public Lands Committees of Congress and passed by both Houses. This bill was signed by the President in February, 1919, during hiss brief return from France. 643 18 Connonwealth Avenue, Boston, May 1, 1901. President Eliot, Harvard University, Carbridge, Mass. My dear Mr Eliot, T. enclose the proof copy of a circular which a special committee, formed to co-operate with our visiting connittee on philosophy J. and for the purpose of getting funds for a special educational library at Harvard, is about to send out, together with a somewhat longer state- ment by Professor Hanus of the work that is being done in his branch and of its present need. The committee wishes to obtain for its circular, besides the en- dorsement of the visiting comittee on philosophy, that of a few names of weight which will approve its scheme and the value of the end it has in view to those to whom it is about to send it, and I trust that you will allow us to use your name in such endorsement, as I think it in- - portant to the success of the undertaking that it should be recognised as having your approval of its aim aid of the statement the committee makes. I have spoken of the matter to Mr Charles Francis Adams, as chair- MON of the overseers' committee by which our visiting comMittee was appointed, and he has endorsed, as such, the copy T enclose. T remain Yours sincerely, George R.Doss LEARNED HAND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 25 NORTH PEARL STREET. Albany, New York, June 19,1901 Yeays 93. Don eg Dear sir I am very glad that Haffrued to better first subscriber to the proposed building for Philosophy in Cambridge and Jam only sorry that my contribution could nother more substantial. His a project which much, as take it, to Haward and the is very in part ant to me and would to mean whole community which Haward committer may be success ful in getting influrners. Vean only wish that the Enough money to build a suitable building is confident of being able to grt the even Profissor minu studing writes our that he whole 4150000; s euffase he has cour means of knowing his prosprets. With many thanks for your mind letter of Very sincerely yours, brained # end HUA. Harvard University. Subscription Records: for Emerson Hall. 1901-1905. ISOI 1902 1902 1902 1902 1905 1903 BAR HARBOR'S MERRY SEASON. Special to The New York Times. BAR HARBOR, July 6,-The season here has been somewhat backward. but. once started. it now promises to progress right merrily, for never were there so many peo- ple here at this date on previous years or so many people who were willing to enter- tain. The Fourth of July was the curtain raiser of the Summer show. In the evening the first dinner dance was held at the Kebo Valley Club and was extremely patriotic it was all Stars and Stripes, red, white, and blue bunting, and a medley of National. airs. Among those who entertained at din- uer were Edmund Pendleton, A. C. Barney, Waldron Bates, Mrs. William Draper, A. H. Hinkle, and Mrs. John Harrison. Some of the well-known people present at the dance later were Mrs. J. Biddle Porter, Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence Green, Mr. and Mrs. Megargee Wright, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Emery, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Fabbri, Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. A. L. Edwards, Mrs. C. B. Wright. Mercer Biddle, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Allison, Mrs. Burton Har- rison, Miss De Courcey, the Misses Seely, Miss Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Sharpless, and Mr. and Mrs. George Quintard Horwitz. Following the affair at Kebo a number of suppers were given at Sproul's. The unprecedentedly warm weather and the furious electric storm of last Saturday have been a seven days' wonder. It is al- most impossible to find any one who can recall a week in June or July so warm as this last one. There was no rellef to be had out of doors from the strong sun and heated airs, and the cottage people kept almost al- together to the protecting shade of the porches. If they appeared at all it was to drive late in the afternoon out around the cliffs. The storm did considerable damage. The home of Francis W. Lawrence, brother of Bishop Lawrence, was entirely destroyed by fire, started by a bolt of lightning. For- tunately there was no one in the house at the time except the servants, who escaped without damage. The Lawrence family arrived the following evening and for the time being are staying with Bishop Law- rence. The other cottages to sustain injury were Stanwood, the home of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Mosley Hall, and the residence of William C. Allison. Thus far the season has been somewhat backward. The hotels have been a week late in opening, yet the managers declare that they cannot meet the demands for July and August. The only reason that can be assigned is that the unusual weather has prevented all entertaining. This is the first week that the larger hotels have been open. The Malvern Inn and cottages are thoroughly booked. Among those who have rented the latter are Mrs. Charles B. Wright, Tanglewold: Mrs. Anna W. Per- kins, the Griffin; Mrs. James W. Gerard, the Canary; Mr. James P. Haggin, the Dutch; Mrs. Van -Nest, Kebo: Hugh Mc- Millan, brother of Senator McMillan of Michigan. the Richardson: Mrs. A. E. Platt, Cornersmeet; Elizabeth K. Anderson, the Geranium. Among the early arrivals at the inn itself are Mr. E. J. Curley, the Ken- tucky millionaire; Mr. and Mrs. Abercrom- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. BAR HARBOR'S MERRY SEASON. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file); Jul 7, 1901; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg.2 pg. 16 resort, which for so early in the season is He formerly owned and occupied Elsinore. unusual. The Pot and Kettle Club. which which is one of the most beautifully ap- was formed last year very much after the pointed cottages here. Idea of the Rabbit of Philadelphia, will Mrs. Cadwalader Jones is at Reefpoint. greatly miss Col. Morrell. The picturesque Her daughter, Miss Beatrix Jones, is with little grill will open about the 15th of the her. month. A little later, when the organiza- Mrs. Martin Van Buren of Fishkill-on- tion of the sporting club at Petit Manan has the-Hudson has visiting her Mrs. Hamilton been thoroughly established, it will attract Emmons. Mr. Van Buren will arrive later many persons to Bar Harbor for a short in the season. visit. Cottages are being built there by Miss Stevens of New York has Chantier members of the club, and two or three day for the season. With her is Mrs. William trips for hunting or fishing will be pleas- B. Wright. ant diversions. Dr. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Sheldon of Now that the idea of a polo field and Lakewood are recent arrivals. They will running track has gained ground. the addi- occupy their cottage for the Summer. The tional attraction of having the English and Sheldons will not go into society much, American college championship take place but live, on the contrary, a very quiet, re- here is being very much talked of. It is tired life. the intention of those who are interested in Mrs. Howard Munnikhuysen has the the matter and who hope to see such a run- Newman cottage. Miss Grace Munnikhuy- ning track constructed by next year to in- sen and Miss Bessie Munnikhuysen are vite the managements to consider the pos- with her. sibility of bringing the meet to Bar Har- Mr. and Mrs. Lea McIlvane Luquer of bor. The coolness of the climate and the New York are at Eagle Clfff. Mrs. Luquer general atmospheric conditions being more is very much interested in the work which like those to which the Englishmen are ac- is done here for the education of children. customed than elsewhere would make it a Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris, who fair ground for contest. are at Boque Chitto, are almost never The Louisburg opened Saturday. The seen apart. Mrs. Morris is seldom seen at guests who have already registered at the society functions. The same is true of her hotel include Mrs. Seth E. Sprague, Miss sisters. Mrs. William J. Schieffelin and Hooper. Mr. and Mrs. Otls Norcross, John Mrs. E. G. Fabbri. A. McDonald. Miss M. F. Smith, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. J. De C. Ireland of New Barnes, and Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes. York are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. The Newport and cottages are rapidly Davis, Mrs. Ireland's parents. filling up. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. B. Biddle of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison. Paris will pass the Summer at the Whit- who were married last year, have Mizzen- tington cottage. George Thatcher and top for the season. Hamilton Thatcher of Boston. accompanied The first golf tournament of the season by Lawrence Gourlie of New York, are took place Saturday over the course at other arrivals. Kebo. There was a large list of entries, Mrs. Hollins. Miss Hollins, and Miss and the course was in excellent shape. It Edith Hollins of New York are at the Bel- is a popular diversion to drive out to the mont for the Summer. Miss Hoy and Miss opening play and take luncheon al fresco Willing. who have been at Lynam's. have at the club. The racket and tennis courts rented Rexcourt for the season. Mr. George at Kebo promise to become popular this F. Bowden and family of New York will season. pass the Summer at the Potter cottage. Visiting Mrs. Linzee at the Yellow cot- tage in the Field are Miss A. D. Torrey and Miss M. E. Torrev of Boston. Mrs. Patterson and Miss Patterson of New York were among the arrivals Friday and will be shortly joined by Judge Patter- son. As a preliminary to the yachting season there is a great deal of scratch racing in the bay. Everybody seems to have become infected with the knockabout fad. and if you haven't one of the trim little thirty- footers you are without honor in. the com- munity. The regular races will begin the second week of July and will be held week- IV. A special class for sloops has been formed, and it is hoped to establish a fund similar to that of the Newport Yacht Rac- ing Association, which will go to provide prizes for an annual Tegatta.in August. The Gardiner Shermans, who were abroad last year. traveling on the Continent,/have returned here. Mrs. Alexander Van Nest, whose daugh- ter was married to J. Stewart Barney last year. will return in a few days, and has taken one of the Malvern cottages for the season. Owing to the death of her brother- In-law. Charles Carroll Jackson. she will be very quiet this Summer. She has come to Bar Harbor in order to be near her sister. Mrs. Jackson. who is at Llangolen. James B. Haggin has taken the Dutch cottage for the season. Mr. Haggin cuts a noticeable figure on the drives with his spirited turnouts. Mrs. Alfred E. Platt, sister of Mr. Albert Clifford Barney, has rented Cornersmeet for the Summer. The cottage is at present occupied by Mrs. Dehon and, Miss Dehon. who will move to the Malvern. Mr. Hugh McMillan, ex-Senator Mc- Millan's brother, has taken the Richardson cottage for the Summer. Mr. McMillan is another of those who have returned to Bar Harbor after an absence of several seasons. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston July 1st, 1902. Curator Gray Herbarium, GRAY HEPEARIUM Cambridge, Mass. For study be Written obtai Dear Sir, In reply to the circular sent me this spring and which I now seem to have mislaid I enclose you my check for $10. towards the maintenance of the Herbarium, I also wish to ask you whether there is any book or pub- lication which I can ootain which would aid me in studying the flora and forest growth of Arizona and Utah, and similarly of Oregon, Washington and the Canadian Rockies. I am just starting West for Colorado, to most Professor Davis in southern Utah. and join him in an expedition down the western side of the Grand Cañon where I shall be for some weeks. And later I shall probably go un by way of Oregon and Washington and spend a few weeks camping out either there or among the Cana- dian Rockies, and any book, not too bulky to carry, which would help me to identify the plant life in either of those regions I should be glad to know of. What is the best way, also, of preserving the flowers and leaves of plants for later study and identification when one is on a camping trip where weight is of importance and space valuable. As I leave for the West in the middle of the day tomorrow Apr 2 I should be glad if you could let me have some word in reply, if you can conveniently do so, by this evening's mail 80 that I might receive it in the morning. If not, will you kindly write to me to await me at the post office at Provo. City, Utah, where I shall be about the 10th of this month, and oblige greatly Yours truly, good order The committee on Trees reported as follows, being the same report read at the last meeting of the Managers. and upon motion it was voted that the same be accepted:- July 9th, 1901. Report of Work Done by the Bar Harbor V. I. A. Tree and Road-Side Committee Since Last Season. quite The work of this Committee has extended out in various and different directions during the past year. It has in the first place carried on its usual work of tree-planting in the village; it has, next, made the trees experiment of planting, for future shade along the narrow strip of grass between the road and side-walk along a good part of that portion of Main Street which extends out from the village toward the beginning of the Schooner Head Road. If this experiment succeeds, as there is good reason to think it will, it will prove an important one as it will within a few years, as the work is carried on, lead to connecting the shady path sys- tems that lie outside the village upon either side with the village itself matter by more or less continuously shaded walks. Another 11000 of work to which this committee has given thought and work, as it also did last year as well, is the establishment of an efficient 'system of surface drainage for the broad, flat piece of low-lying ground in the town which extends from Cromwell's Harbor Brook to the South Street region, and westward; 289 it regards this drainage as of great importance for the present and still more for the future health of the town, an opinion in which it is strongly supported by the town's health officers who have stated it as their opinion that the accomplishment of this work is of the first and vital importance. The sum of 2500. was accordingly appropriated last March by the town for was initiating the work and placed in the hands of the road commissioner, by whom it will be begun during the present year. Yet another piece of work accomplished this year by the committee is the opening of a piece of new road in continuation of Ledge Lawn Avenue, running through the valley of Cromwell's Harbor Brook to connect with the Harden Farm Road, built two years ago, which will materially shorten the distance as well as lessen grade for people driving out from the central and western portions of the village over the Otter Creek Road, and also give the village a shorter and more easy access to the Bicycle Path and the Fair Ground. Your committee has also been instrumental during the past year, in obtaining the removal of the town's stone crusher from the Schooner Head Road, where it was a source of much annoyance to some of the owners of valuable property lying opposite to it upon the shore, as well as a disfigurement to the roadside and an injury to the salable value of the valuable land that adjoined it upon Strawberry Hill. The town has now acquired land of its own for this purpose from which a practically indefinite supply of stone can be obtained at a decidedly lessened cost, so that the change will tend materially toward the gradual improvement of the roads about the town. A foot path has also been opened up through the woods by this committee, from the Otter Creek Gorge to near the commencement of the new road built by the town at Otter Creek last year, a distance of from two and a half to three miles in length, and running on the western side of the water-shed to the Creek 290 where remarkably level grade can be obtained throughout, and it is hoped that with the consent of the owners of the woodlands that it passes through , and the support of those interested in horsehack-riding, that an easy and attractive bridle path, the only one that, seems at present to offer itself in the neighborhood of Bar Harbor, may ere-long be built. Work of the usual nature for the improvement of our more important roadsides near the town, such as the removal of dead trees and broken limbs and other similar work, has also been carried on by your committee and so far as its funds would permit; steps were also taken by it in the fall looking to the establishment of a continuous and pleasant side-walk lead- ing along Eden Street and connecting the town with the system of foot- paths beginning at Duck Brook, an important link which remains to be completed in our path system, but the narrowness of the roadway, and the unwillingness on the part of some of the owners along the line of it to co-operate in the work made its immediate postponement necessary. Respectfully submitted, George B wor the shoken Committees + it VIA'S for Committee of 8/13/01 plan & endorse note HCTPR forned 9/12/1901 Rilationship mis Dorr's deate Oct,1901 Lender G.H.Lynam Seey BHUIA , 1904 N/A end begin Charles W. Eliot to Parke Godwin Asticou, Maine 12 August, 1901. Mr. Parke Godwin, Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Sir: The ob ject of my note to you was to procure a conference of committees from the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor and Northeast Har- bor on the following subject: By what means can some public reservations of interesting scenery be secured for the perpetual use and enjoyment of all the inhab- itants of Mount Desert, natives, cottagers and transient visitors alike? Being myself a cottager near Northeast Harbor, I have observed with regret the successive depriv- ations which I and my family have undergone during the past twenty years with regard to access to other places of singular beauty and attractiveness. Place after place where I was in the habit of walking or picnicing has been converted to private uses, and resort to it by other than the owner has become impossible. To secure for owners of private places perpetual access to certain favorite points of view, it seems absolutely necessary that some (August 12, 1901) 2. at least of these favorite points should be held by a board of trustees, or otherwise, for the use of the public. We have in Massachusetts a board expressly created for this object, called the Trustees of Public Reservations. This board has been in existence about nine years, and already holds several valuable and beau- tiful pieces of land, to the great advantage of the pub- lic. To give definiteness to this proposal I will mention as examples of the pieces of land which I should think it desirable for such a board of trustees to acquire for the public of this island, Great Head, Jordan's Pond, Carter's Nubble (Beech Hill), Flying Mountain and Valley Cove (Somes Sound), some portion of Otter Cliffs, some portion of the shore at the Ovens, some portion of the westerly shore of Ironbound Island, Calf Island (Frenchman's Bay). Doubt- less there are hilltops within agreeable walking or driving distance of Bar Harbor which might well be secured. The top of Asticou Hill and of Brown Mountain, near North East Harbor, ought to be procured for public use. I think it probable that some of the places mention- ed could be procured by gift; others would have to be bought (August 12, 1901) 3. with money raised by subscription. In the last resort, taking by right of eminent domain through a commission created by the Legislature would be in my judgment desir- able and expedient. Any board of trustees or commission created to hold such reservations ought to be authorized to make short leases of portions of their holdings, in order to provide restaurants and other means of public enjoyment at those points to which the resort of the public proved to be considerable. The present management of Jordan's Pond is an illustration of what could be done in this way by a suitable board of trustees or a commission. I should be obliged to you if you would present to the meeting of your Society tomorrow the principal sug- gestions contained in this letter. If your society thought fit to appoint a committee to deal with the subject in CO- operation with the Village Improvement Societies of Seal Harbor and North East Harbor, that action would, I doubt not, be very acceptable to the other two Societies. Very truly yours, C. W. E. [Charles W. Eliot] Charles W. Ellot to George B. Dorr Esq. Version. Asticou, Maine. 12 August, 1901. Dear Mr. Dorr: I wrote to Mr. Parke Godwin a week ago, or more, asking him to appoint a committee from the Village Improvement Society of Bar Harbor to confer with committees from the Village Improvement Societies of Seal Harbor and North East Harbor touch- ing the organization of a board of trustees or commission to hold reservations at points of interest on this island, for the perpetual use of the public. Yesterday he wrote me a note (received this morning) from which it appears that he has not appointed any committee on behalf of the Village Improvement Society of Bar Harbor. Our conference is to be held tomorrow, Tuesday, afternoon at four o'clock, at the Music Room, near the cottage of the late Professor Rowland, on Rowland Road, Seal Harbor. Would it be possible for you and one or two other gentlemen from Bar Harbor to attend this conference in an unofficial capacity? Mr. Godwin mentions that there is a meeting of your Village Improvement Society on the same day; but he does not state the hour. (12 August, 1901) 2. I have written to him this morning a letter in which I have set forth the objects which our Society had in mind in proposing a conference, of which I enclose a copy herewith. It will explain to you the general purpose of the movement. I feel sure that you will sympathize with it. I approach the undertaking myself from the cottagers' point of view; but I believe it to be a measure which all persons interested in the preservation of this island as a place for healthful enjoyments could unite in. The railroad and steamboat transportation companies ought to take strong interest in it. Very truly yours, Charles W. Eliot. George B. Dorr, Esq. P. S. I have just heard from Bishop Lawrence that you will attend the conference. Please bring some other gentlemen with you. C. W. E. 2. Version 2 Asticou, Maine, 12 August, 1901. Dear Mr. Dorr: I wrote to Mr. Parke Godwin, a week ago or more, asking him to appoint a committee from the Village Improvement Society of Bar Harbor to confer with com- mittees from the Village Improvement Societies of Seal Harbor and North East Harbor touching the organ- ization of a board of trustees or commission to hold reservations at points of interest on this Island, for the perpetual use of the public. Yesterday he wrote me a note, received this morning, from which it appears that he has not appointed any committee on behalf of the Village Improvement Society of Bar Harbor. Our conference is to be held tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock, at the Music Room on Rowland Road, Seal Harbor. Would it be possible for you and one or two other gentlemen from Bar Harbor to attend this con- ference in an unofficial capacity? Mr. Godwin mentions that there is a meeting of your Village Improvement Society on the same day, but he does not state the hour. 3. I have written to him this morning a letter in which I set forth the objects which our Society had in mind in proposing the conference, of which I en- close herewith a copy. It will explain to you the general purpose of the movement. I feel sure that you will sympathize with it. I approach the under- taking myself from the cottagers' point of view, but I believe it to be a measure on which all per- sons interested in the preservation of this island as a place for healthful enjoyment could unite. Very truly yours, Charles W. Eliot. George B. Dorr, Esq. P. S. I have just heard from Bishop Lawrence that you will attend the conference. Please bring some other gentlemen. C. W. E. HCTPR: ORIGINS Dorr Papers (1.5) essay on origins of HCTPR lists following at Music Room meeting, August 13, 1901 Rev. William Adams Brown Prof. Edward S. Dana Rt. Rev. William C. Doane George Bucknam Dorr* Charles W. Eliot Richard M. Hoe++ John S. Kennedy* Rt. Rev. William Lawrence S.D. Sargent William J. Schieffelin * George L. Stebbins ++ George Vanderbilt* * Journeyed together at Dorr's invite from BH to Seal Harbor on Kennedy's steam yacht ++ Represented the extensive David Dows-Cooksey Seal Harbor interests To Bertrand E. Clark, Justice of the Peace, in and for To Borton for Hancock County, State of Maine. The undersigned desire to be incorporated for social, mortal, charitable and benevolent purposes including the purpose of response facistic. participant or mestrics, acquiring, owning and holding lands and other property in Relative = ever in wis 10% said Hancock County for free public use, and improving the He use, now same by laying out and building roads and paths and making Career: will other improvements thereon; we therefore apply in writing to procided by I Camptor 58 of the you as provided by Section I Chapter 55 of the Revised Statute of Maine to issue your warrant directed to one of your appli- it you - ^tended cants, requiring him to call a meeting for the purpose of organ requiring Mr onli for of ization at such time and place as you may appoint. Bar Harbor, Maine August 29th, 1901 liengeReaser LA John LA. John Feese L Statum Edward men Green e Statemis Lea his Long Charles In Eliok Edward mean Leave 2.2 Ling L.C. Kimbace Charles In Elion L. b. Kimbace Letter to the Justice of the Peace asking for incorporation of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Signatures of all eight members are present. Original is difficult to scan. All signatures are original. BAr Harbor, Maine, Sept. 10th, 1901. Dear Sir:- The meeting for organization, under agreement of association, dated August 29th, 1901, is to be held at the office of E. R. Mears, Bar Harbor, Me., on Saturday, September 14th, 1901, at three o'clock P. M. Your are earnestly requested to be present. If for any reason you cannot come, please sign and return to me this letter, with the acknowledgment at the bottom hereof signed. Yours very truly, Mr. John S. Kennedy, 2.6 Deary Bar Harbor, Me. I hereby acknowledge and accept due, legal, timely and sufficient service of the above notice. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine February 26, 1942. Newton B. Drury, Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. Dear Director Drury: I appreciate warmly the letter I received from you yesterday concerning the recent editorial in the Boston Herald. The letters I have received personally, following the press release sent out from Washington on January seventh, and the editorial comment on it in the Boston Herald, the New York Herald-Tribune and the Portland (Maine) Sunday Telegram have all given me great pleasure in their kindness and appreciation of my work. It is a work I only started in upon when I was well past the half-century mark and came to me through cir- cumstances that almost seemed intended to place it on my shoulders. Forces outside myself impelled me and, as I have sometimes felt, helped me as the work went on. What I have done throughout, I feel as I look back, has been to recognize the opportunities that came to me and to have the will to take them. Again, with thanks, believe me Sincerely yours, GBD-0 Dup Dictaphone - transcribed October 15, 1941. I acquired the lands west of the Athletic Field and secured the Park Office site at the beginning of my work for a major group 1901 of Public Reservations with the thought clearly in view of such an approach to them as I am now offering the National Park which presently sprang out of my undertaking. The Athletic Field, the fundamental feature of the whole undertaking, I made safe for all time, ao long as Bar Harbor will endure, by giving it to the Town with restrictions against any building being placed upon it; the land west of it, held personally for a time, I placed in the hands of the Dorr Foundation, created for the express purpose of holding it, to insure its safety, independent of myself, as a n essential feature In the approach I planned to the Great Meadow, central to my scheme of the Reservations. Those chosen to constitute the Foundation were people I felt would understand and be in sympathy with the spirit of my work and the end I had in view, and it is that corporation, hot I, that controls it now and has the duty to see that my original plan for a beautiful and undisfigured entrance from the Town to the group of Public Reservations lands which I was gathering is worthy of the whole and of what it leads to. The tract of land which the Dorr Foundation corporation has reserved in its gift of the entrance to the Park, the Park has no need of or use for at the present time nor in the future so far as can be seen; all that the Park Service officials at Washington desire it for, as I understand it, is to make sure that no use will be made of it in the future alien to what I now propose for the unique character of the whole as an entrance to ancimportant National Park area. The members of the corporation and I with them, most gladly agree to septing whatever can best secure this purpose without sacrificing the purpose for which the reservation was made, important also to the Park in my judgment and in theirs. This land did not enter into the question when my bill for the taking over by the Government of the National Park headquarters site and its buildings was entered, not necessary to it, but was held in reserve with the intention of offering it to the Government later in free gift, when such plans as have now been adopted, plans with which I am more than content, had been worked out. All that I or the Foundation want is to make permanent so far as is humanly possible the opportunities secured. It has great opportunities and should be as enduring . inthe accomplishment, if rightly done, as the Park itself, I can see now danger ahead in the Park-Roundation control, nor what I control myself which lies immediately beyond it. But beyond that, between it and the actual entrance on the Park there is a good bit to be done to make the opportunity that offers there secure and developed to its best and fullest. [G.B. Dorr] Diotaphone - transcribed October 15, 1941. I acquired the lands west of the Athletic Field and secured the Park Office site at the beginning of my work for a major group of Public Reservations with the thought clearly in view of suoh an approach to them as I am now offering the National Park which presently sprang out of my undertaking. The Athletic Field, the fundamental feature of the whole undertaking, I made safe for all time, ae long as Bar Harbor will endure, by giving it to the Town with restrictions against any building being placed upon it; the land west of it, held personally for a time, I placed in the hands of the Dorr Foundation, created for the express purpose of holding it, to insure its safety, independent of myself, as a n essential feature In the approach I planned to the Great Meadow, central to my scheme of the Reservations. Those ohosen to constitute the Foundation were people I felt would understand and be in sympathy with the spirtt of my work and the end I had in view, and it is that corporation, hot I, that controls it now and has the duty to see that my original plan for a beautiful and undisfigured entrance from the Town to the group of Public Reservations lands which I was gathering is worthy of the whole and of what it leads to. The traot of land which the Dorr Foundation corporation has reserved in its gift of the entranoo to the Park, the Park has no need of or use for at the present time nor in the future so far as can be seen; all that the Park Service officials at Washington desire it for, as I understand it, is to make sure that no use will be made of it in the future alien to what I now propose for the unique charaoter of the whole as an entrance to 2. thoimportant National Park area. The members of the corporation and I with them, most gladly agree to whatever can best secure this purpose without sacrificing the purpose for which the reservation was made, important also to the Park in my judgment and in theirs. This land did not enter into the question when bill for the taking over by the Government of the National Park headquarters site and its buildings was entered, not necessary to it, but was held in teserve with the intention of offering it to the Government later in free gift, when such plans as have now been adopted, plans with which I am more than content, had been worked out. All that I or the Foundation want is to make permanent so far as is humanly possible the opportunities secured. It has great opportunities and should be as enduring ***********. int the accomplishment, if rightly done, as the Park itself I oan see now danger ahead in the Park-Foundation control, nor what I control myself which lies immediately beyond it. But beyond that, between it and the actual entranoe on the Park there is a good bit to be done to make the opportunity that offers there secure and developed to its best and fullest. 18 Commonwealth Avenue. 7, B. Sanborn leg. Cenend Mass. Original in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Wrand Research Center Boston University Publication permission must be secured from HGARC I write is acknow- ledge and thank you for the interesting letter which I received at the meeting called by One committee at Mrs Bulland's house last week. I au Long proh citality responsius is its time, in one philosophies department that Emenson should new lu felt W le the best efforment of its frint I trust one building may become lin of Relian un wit much regard, Original in the Sincerely your George Publication Howard secured Boston Research permission Gotlieb from University Center HGARC Archival must be Feb 18h 1902 OF HARVARD COLLEGE Frederick L. Olmsted, Jr. 1896 Several proposals to construct the Charles River Dam were made about the turn of the century. This dam would create the Charles River Basin and insure the conversion of the salt marshes and mud flats along the river to stable park lands. HARYAND "Plans recently prepared by Frederick L. Olmsted, Jr. and reproduced in an adjacent column will provoke the interest of those Harvard alumni who agree with him that a new approach to the Yard from the Charles might better the whole aspect of the Univer- sity. Minor changes in the planning of the University property would serve to lend grandeur to this undying feature and would enhance the dignity of Harvard's topographic situation."2 (The approach to the Yardfrom the Charles River was only one feature of this plan, One can recog- nize the numerous buildings (lightly shaded) pro- posed for future expansion of the College in the Yard and north of the Yard. Langdell Hall (1908, 1928-29) and Widener Library (1914-15) are the only existing buildings which bear similarity of CHARLES RIVER site and bulk to these many proposals. 1. The College Yard - - Harvard University, Arthur A. Shurtleff, Instructor of Landscape Architec- NOV . 1896 . ture, 1904. SUCCESTIONS FOR THE 2. Harvard Alumni Bulletin, May 15, 1948, Re- ORDERLY-ARRANCEMENT?OF- THE: GROVNDS OF HA creation of 1898 publication. PLANNING OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY STUDY FOR DIGNIFIED APPROACH TO HARVARD COLLEGE -- Olmsted Brothers 1901 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF DE WOLFE PARKWAY Olmsted Brothers 1902 HARVARD YARD The attempt to create a link between the College Yard and the Charles River as proposed by Olmsted reappears with alignment variations in these and later proposals for the development of Harvard College and vicinity. MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD ST. 3/6/1902 QUINCY SQUARE "The undersigned, graduates of Harvard, wish DOMER to call your attention to a measure now pending, which it is hoped will provide at last the digni- fied and suitable approach to the college grounds for which the need has long been felt. The Charles River Parkway has already been laid KEY MAP out, and is now being constructed, following the ARROW ST. river bank along the Cambridge side. from Har- vard Bridge to a point beyond the bridge cross- ing from Harvard Square to Soldiers Field. This ST. will bring it, as may be seen on the accompany- ing plan, within a short distance of the College MT. AUBURN Yard. ST. "What is now proposed is to construct a wide park-like street connecting this river parkway with Quincy Square, and thus provide a continu- STUDY FOR ous driveway, shaded with trees, and free from DIGNIFIED APPROACH car tracks, from the Harvard Bridge to Harvard TO College. It will also afford a more direct, as HARVARD COLLEGE well as more attractive, route between the Har- DE WOLF ST. AND QUINCY SQUARE vard Union and the University Boat House and MALE - Soldiers Field." ARE 3 ARROW ST. river bank along the Cambridge side, from Har- vard Bridge to a point beyond the bridge cross- ing from Harvard Square to Soldiers Field. This ST. will bring it, as may be seen on the accompany- ing plan, within a short distance of the College Yard. MT.AUBURN ST. "What is now proposed is to construct a wide park-like street connecting this river parkway with Quincy Square, and thus provide a continu- ous driveway, shaded with trees, and free from STUDY FOR car tracks, from the Harvard Bridge to Harvard DIGNIFIED APPROACH TO College. It will also afford a more direct, as HARVARD COLLEGE well as more attractive, route between the Har- DE WOLF ST. AND QUINCY SQUARE vard Union and the University Boat House and SCALL Soldiers Field. 1 JUNE 1901 MILL ST. GRANT ST. RIVERVIEW AV. * COWPERTHWAITE ST. 4-4-B P. It is assumed that the continued interest in the lands along the Charles and their linkage to the College Yard may be attributed in great por- tion to the activities of the Harvard Riverside Associates. "The Harvard Riverside Associates, Messrs. Thomas Nelson Perkins 91, Augustus Hemenway '75, Harold J. Cool- idge '92, and James A. Burden '93, led by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95 solicited con- tributions to acquire property in this area. This organization was eminently success- ful and when the property was turned over to the University in 1909 something over $ 800,000 had been spent on land aquisi- tions. It was in this manner through the initiative of Mr. Forbes and the generosity of alumni that Harvard obtained the sites for the freshman halls and much of the land on which the houses were later erec- ted. 2 I A circular letter to the Alumni of Harvard University, March 6, 1902, from George B. Dorr, Secretary and Treasurer of analumni group. "The Evolving Shape of Harvard," illustrated lecture November 1956, Charles W. Eliot 2nd, Professor of Landscape Architecture. PLAN OF PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS FOR HARVARD SQUARE AND VICINITY E. J. A. Duquesne 1913 TO Sarah Orne Jewett OF MRS. WHITMAN LETTERS October 22, 1901 (after two deaths). of symphony in the air, and I am a-prepar- ing to return early, for late breakfast, in And yesterday Mrs. Dorr was set free short, after tea in this idyllic garden and after so long a captivity, and now one may an evening of large hospitality and happi- believe walks freely in that sky at which I had a real talk with Mrs. Ward she has sat looking for these months past. ness. under the trees; and all this has been a The days accordingly go on with slow lasting pleasure. So from out this shel- dramatic footsteps, and one goes on with ter (a word which takes on such inexplica- them or glad or sad, but in any case strenu- ble perfume as life grows longer) and on ously set to the selfsame task. And Nature has taken such a hand at the Game this this lyric morning, I have this one word with you. I think it is because you love Fall. I have never known such splendors me that I am here; and that is sweet. and symbols, such announcements of "lib- Heaven bless you ! eral friendship" and of high augury. My August, 1900. work has of necessity been in the shop, but I found my escape in going straight to I have listened and, I hope, learned some- the Cathedral of Chartres yesterday morn- what of these adorable open secrets of the wide air. ing. For as I sojourned there from May 15, 1902. ENGLAND. the morning early, till long after sunset, I was able to know something of the Sym- One word with you to-night, by phony of colour which is daily played the river Dart, I am looking out on there, and anything more matchless can- one of the most romantic bits of English not be, in this world. scenery I ever beheld, - an idyllic loveli- [ 106 ] [ 107 ] 33 Sept. 29.1902 Ps-lof3 a meeting of the Managers was duly called and held at the St Saurium Hotel on the above date. The reading of the minutes was dis puneed with The Treasurer repisted follows:- Total receipts 3,764.98 Expenditures 2,273,96 1,491.02 Dr mitchell presented the following resolution and upon motion it was voted to spread the same on the records, publish it in the Bar Harbor Record and a copy tent to mr. Go. B.Dour and to mr. Samuel G. ward, Washing ton. MRS. CHARLES H. DORR. E At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Village Improvement Association held Monday forenoon, September 29th at the St. Sauveur, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell presented the following testi- monial of esteem for the late Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, which was adopted and ordered to be spread on the minutes of the Association, and a copy sent to the family : Note: See also Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, a member of this Board, died in October, 1901, at the age of 81 years, soon Box Harbor Record after her return from this place to her home in Boston. She was one of the original corporators, when in 1888, we organized the Village Improve- 10/30/1901-sbit ment Association of Bar Harbor. From that time until her final illness by degrees lessened her phys- ical ability, she was personally active in our work, and was for many years an inspiring presence at our meetings. When of late, she became unable to attend, she still continued to exercise an ener- gising influence, which was continuously felt in all our lines of labour. It was, however, as the head of our Committee on Trees, that she was most valuable. To this im- portant work she brought great experience, a cer- tain loving enthusiasm and unfailing good taste. Those who remember the ill-kept roadsides of for- mer days, have to thank chiefly our late member for the constant care which was given to removing the dead trees and disfiguring rubbish from the sides of our many beautiful drives. Few of the new comers notice how free are these driveways from unsightly wrecks of trees, or know how much they owe to the watchful eye and ceaseless thought of the woman whose loss we so much re- gret. The Committee, of which she was the head, has, during its existance, planted more than 1000 trees along the nearer roadways and encouraged success- fully the setting out of vines and flowering shrubs. As long as Mrs. Dorr was able she personally superintended much of the work of this Committee. When no longer able to do this she kept up an un- failing interest in whatever we did to add to the charm of the highways. Her simple and unaffected love for the wide world of out-door life, from the wild mountain wood to the flowers of her own garden, made the kind of work which occupied this Committee, most congenial to her tastes; indeed nothing was more interesting about this most interesting woman than the quick joy she felt up to her last days in all the varied aspects of nature; to feed this sense of pleasure, she brought the eye of a skilled artist and remarkable acuteness of observation. Those who knew her in the more intimate re- lations of life must feel that with her death some- thing has gone out of their lives which can never be replaced ; for indeed, this unusual personality brought to nourish friendship-the utmost kind- ness, wide intellectual sympathies and such dis- criminative judgment in art and literature as was prompt to discern and cherish whatever was best. In the hours of her bountiful hospitality when she liked to gather her friends and acquaintances there is much to miss, for as a hostess, her ability to draw out what was socially valuable in her guests, was unsurpassed. Those of her many friends on whom sorrow or misfortune has fallen, found in her a rare insight and a very uncommon skill in helping the hurt of life's battle with a sympathy which was as true as it was tender, and seemed to possess the cer- tainty of instinctive appreciation. We. of this Association, desire to express to our. fellow members and to her family, our belief that in the death of Mrs. Dorr we have met with an ir. reperable loss. Our personal relations to Mrs. Dorr permit Autos in BH 35 pg-3-f3. to say to all who loved her that we have grieved over her death as that of an efficient counsellor, a liberal helper, a woman who brought to our varied forms of work, the charms of a distinct and effi- OJEE ciently useful character. In the truest sense we offer them our sympathy, for none better than we can know what this loss has been. We beg to as- sure them that it has been most widely felt in the whole community, which owed Mrs. Dorr so much. Noted that the matter of Horse driving on the Bicycle Path be refund to Mr. Geo.B. Derr, with the recommen dation that some measure be taken to stop it. The following committee were appointed fn the ensuing year:- STANDING COMMITTEES. Committee on Trees: George B. Dorr, Mrs. John Markoe, Finance Committee: Charles Fry, Mrs. R. B. Potter, F. . C. Lynam, Chairman. Miss Beatrix Jones, J. M. Sears. Morris K. Jesup. J. S. Kennedy. Village Committee: Entertainment Committee: Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Chairman. Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. W. L. Green, Mrs. R. B. Potter, Mrs. J. M. Sears, Mrs. A. C. Barney, Mrs. Hall McCormick, Mrs. E. B. Mears. Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. W. W. Seely, Mrs. J. M. Taylor. SPECIAL COMMITTEES. Sanitary Committee: Committee on Bicycle Paths and Newport Mt. Road : Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Chairman. George B. Dorr. Wm. Fennelly, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Clara Norris, Committee on Parks: J. S. Kennedy. Dr. J. Madison Taylor. Roads and Paths Committee: Waldron Bates, Chairman. Committee on Shannon Park: Mrs. Robert Amory, John J. Emery, George B. Dorr, Dr. Robert Amory, Chairman. Charles Fry, Herbert Jaques, Charles Fry. George B. Dorr. Miss Beatrix Jones. Julia Ward Howe Journal. 1901 946 -460- Thursday, Oct. 17. + + + In afternoon to town to visit Mrs. William S. Weld and cousins, the Turners. Got caught by a shower while at Mrs. Weld's, who kindly invited me to stay over night. she played to me on her pianola and gave me two fine bunches of hot house grapes. I stopped at the Turner house to leave the best bunch for Lizzie T. who is an invalid. Did not dare to stay as the skies looked very threatening. Was badly chilled by sitting in the carriage while Michael did the errands, and by the long drive home. Friday, Oct. 18. Find myself well today, contrary to my expectations after yesterday's exposure. Saturday, Oct. 19. Have writ a little "appreciation" for the Centenary of the New York Evening Post. Monday, Oct. 21. Read my screed on the "Duties of Women" ordered by Collier's Weekly and rejected by it, to the Woman's Alliance of Unity Church. The meeting was at the parsonage. I read before the paper, my poem on the death of our late President, and after it my poem on "Duty", which was warmly received. Tuesday, Oct. 22. + + + Heard today that my old and valued friend Edmund Tweedy, died yesterday, aged ninety years. I hoped to attend his funeral but only learned of it accidently in Dr. Brackett's house, as to take place just at the time of my appointment. I would have postponed this, but I had already sent my man and carriage down town. I felt badly about this. Went later to Mrs. Rogers', to meet an acquaintance of many years, Mrs. Dr. McClellan, once Abby Hare. + Was much worried at hearing that my son-in-law, David Hall, is seriously out of health. A month of rest is ordered for him, which I fear he will not take. Wednesday, Oct. 23. I am today in much confusion of mind. My friend in early youth and of many years, Mary Dorr, died on Monday, 21st. I desire to attend her funeral tomorrow but am expecting Cousin Mott and Mary Greene to supper, having had once to put them off. Also am pressingly invited to attend the King Alfred banquet at Delmonico's on October 28th, having just telegraphed David Hall to make me a visit. What to do I do not know. Mrs. Dorr's death is a relief from much weakness and bodily infirmity. We were once very intimate but have grown apart, although I have regretted her seeming neglect of me in these last years. She was much interested in spiritualism and mind cure, both of which I eschew. Other and younger people have gathered around her, of which I am glad, yet a little jealous for the old friendship. + + + Did my nonsense lines about Dr. Barker into Latin and Greek to send him, accord- ing to promise; sending also the original English. -461- 777. Thursday, Oct. 24. Had a very grievous time at waking, worrying about the Convention of the State Federation at Springfield, which I promised to attend and where I wish to be. Matters here seem to make it incumbent upon me to stay by the ship, which I have decided to do. Went up with dear Maud to Mary Dorr's funeral. In the cars met a Mr. Grosvenor, formerly of Providence, who had danced to my playing one Christmas in early child- hood. At the Dorr house found a wreath of laurel and violets over the usual strip of crepe. Arlo Bates helped me up stairs, where George Dorr took me affectionately by the hand and seated me next to Thomas Ward, his uncle. Rev. Frank Peabody was the minister. Maud was much im- pressed with his choice and reading of scripture, and with his remarks, which were excellent; three hymns by the choir of Kings Chapel fairly sung and very good in effect. The casket was covered with the choicest flowers, as was the rest on which it was placed. Mary's old coachman, Bennett, stood beside George, at, I suppose, the foot of the casket, which was closed. Many old friends were there; no indifferent ac- quaintances I should think. Dear Maud took me to lunch at the Victoria, and put me in the car for Newport, where arrived safely in a tempest of wind. Friday, Oct. 25. + + Have thought much about Mrs. Dorr's life and death. This last event opened to me such a panorama of retrospect -- Mary's visit here in 1839, her engagement to my brother Henry, my visits to her in Boston, Henry's death, our intimacy of many years and her singular estrangement from me, during say the last five years. She always met me affectionately, but never sought me nor sent any greetings when I was 111, or at other times. Remembering now the delight which I once had in her society, I am sad that our record closed with no postscript regard- ing the old affection. of this she once said to my Maud: "Your mother and I were once like hand and glove, but I have grown.' Sunday, Oct. 27. To church where heard a good sermon from Mr. How. Something on the usefulness of the several gospels in giving individual views of Christ's life and character, and on what each of us should do in illus- trating the truth and power of Christianity in life. Went after service to see my Turner cousins. Found Katie resolute and cheerful as ever; Lizzie sadly changed, crippled by paralysis and very nervous. William, the sculptor, is with them and very glad to be at home after many years passed in Florence. In the evening gave Joanna warning, the thought of which caused me much discomfort, yet it seems best. She took it not unkindly, to my great relief. Wednesday, Oct. 30. The day being unusually bright and mild, I drove into town to call upon Mrs. Maj. Gibbs and the Edward Potters. I found Mrs. Gibbs in fine toilette, waiting to take Prof. Wolcott Gibbs to see the Berwind mansion. Mrs. Potter was "not at home", whether truly or officially I could only guess. I had a touching interview with her husband, who although badly paralyzed, seems cheerful and interested in his music and other things. He gave me a copy of his 12th Night Cantata, and described a delightful Christmas, years ago, when he had performed it here at his own house, with accompaniments of feasting and boar's head. This he -467- 783 days. Tuesday, Dec. 10. Have written two stanzas of Battle Hymn in a Sunday School book sent me last summer. + + + Wednesday, Dec. 11. Lecture in West Brookfield. + + + Was much gratified to hear that my performance had given great pleasure. Thursday, Dec. 12. Wrote all the A. M. on my screed for New York Journal, on the observance of Sunday. + + + Friday, Dec. 13. Luncheon Women's Aux. Civil Service Reform. + + + Rev. Lyman Abbott took me into dinner. We had a very pleasant talk. I saw many people whom I have formerly known, Carl Schurz, Prof. Proctor, Effie (Shaw) Lowell. The speaking was not without interest, yet not what Mr. Emerson would have called "memorable" Although not asked to speak, (no woman was ), my reception was very cordial and gratifying. Saturday, Dec. 14. A day of comparative rest. Wrote my suffrage queries for H. B. B. + + + + Sunday, Dec. 15. Such a down pour that could not go to church, which I had much desired to do. Monday, Dec. 16. + + + George B. Dorr called in afternoon and we had a long talk about the long past, and especially about my brother Henry who was engaged to George's mother. It seemed like getting into a crypt to recall the scenes of that distant time. He asked leave to call again tomorrow. Tuesday, Dec. 17. George Dorr called again and brought a great number of letters to his father from my father and from many other people. We had a good sitting together. He described to me his grandfather coming in to break the news of dear Henry's death to his family. Mary and her mother were sitting in the parlor. Mr. Ward entered, his eyes streaming with tears. "Is he dead"? asked Mrs. Ward. Mr. Ward folded his daughter in his arms. As George told me this, which he had heard from his mother, the tears came and his voice faltered. As he rose to take leave, I said: "Dear George, I love to go over the past with you, but you must not dwell upon it too much. The future is before you; you must think of it." Thursday, Dec. 19. Circolo Italiano. + + + Have writ in reply to George T. Downing and others. these colored gentlemen having sent me a letter of thanks 902 243 1022. Feb. 3, 1902. Concord. To (William Torrey) Harris. ALS, 1 p. MS: Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Encloses verses by Channing to be "printed in the J. of S. P." (Journal of Speculative Philoso- phy?) Other verses are being sent to Mr. Salt in ., subject. England to be published there. J.W. tated check- 1023. Feb. 13, 1902. Concord. To (William Torrey) Harris. he letters of TLS, 1 p. MS: Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Remarks on an invitation to join a new "move- Benjamin ment in the area of speculative philosophy," a newly- 1831-1917. found sketch of Milton published in the Classical , MI, 1994. Review, his own edition of Channing's Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist, Asks after "the aged S. G. Ward" and encloses a long quote of Ward's from a letter to Ellen Emerson. The quote concerns Channing. 1024. Feb. 13, 1902. Concord. To George B. Dorr. TLS, 2 pp. (copy). MS: Unknown. Sanborn's typed copy in Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass. Regrets that he will be unable to attend the meeting at which the introduction of the philosophy 01 Emerson into the curriculum at Harvard will be discussed. Gives his views on the matter. 1025. Feb. 16, 1902. Concord. To (Benjamin Smith) Lyman. ALS, 1 p. MS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Mentions death of James Thayer. FBS plans to attend the funeral. Encloses notice of a book written by Lyman's aunt and recommends another by Allen Clarke as containing "much Phila- delphia matter." Promises a copy of his article on Gove and Barefoot and another of an article on John Starke. 1026. Feb. 24, 1902 (?). (year obscured) Concord. To Samuel L. Dutton. TLS, 1 p. (copy). MS: Unknown. Sanborn's typed copy in American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass, appended to letter to Dr. Henry Shaw (2/24/02 ?). Regrets that he can give no infor- mation concerning a Dr. Greene, a physician in the Civil War. Refers Dutton to the Rev. C. G. Ames, pastor of the Church of the Disciples. MAINE CENTRAL R. R. FRENCHMAN'S BAY SERVICE. TIME TABLE OF "SAPPHO." STEAMERS- NORUMBEGA, SAPPHO and Sebenoa In Effect Monday, Aug. 18th, 1902. MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD. FRENCHMAN'S BAY SERVICE. Running in Connection with Trains of the Maine Central Railroad (Weather Permitting.) TRAINS ARRIVE MT. DESERT FERRY: TRAINS LEAVE MT. DESERT FERRY: No. 127 at 6.45 a. m. Daily. No. at 7.25 a. m. Except Sunday. No. 117 at 10.05 a. m. Except Sunday. (Freight) No. 122 at 11.20 a. m Except Sunday. No. 115 at 11.20 a. m. Except Sunday. No. 116 at 12 05 P. m. Except Sunday. (Freight) No. 1 at 1.10 p. m. Except Sunday. No. 112 at 1.50 p. m. Daily. No. 129 at 4.55 p. m. Except Sunday. No. 114 at 4.55 p. in Daily. No. 11 at 6.45 p. m. Daily. No. 118 at 9.'5 p. m. Daily. No. 341 at 10.15 a. m. Sunday Only. No. 332 at 6.30 a. m. Sunday only. No. 325 at 1.20 p. m. Sunday Only. Ex Ex. Ex. Ex. Daily Ex. Ex. Ex, Ex. LEAVE Sun Sun. Sun. Sun. Sun. Sun. Sun. Sun. Daily Daily Daily Sun. Sun. Sun. only only only A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. Mt. Desert Ferry 6 55 7 30 11 30 11 3) 1 20 1 30 5 00 5 00 6 50 6 5° 9 50 10 25 Sullivan 10 25 1 50 7 45 1 45 7 05 Hancock Point 8 05 11 40 5 10 Sorrento 10 35 7 10 8 20 11 50 2 15 5 25 7 25 Bar Harbor 1) 50 7 00 7 40 8 50 12 10 2 00 2 50 5 45 7 30 10 30 11 10 Seal Harbor 11 2) 2 35 7 50 8 30 6 35 12 or North East Harbor 3 20 8 10 8 FO 6 55 12 20 South West Harbor 3 40 8 2 9 00 7 05 12 30 3 50 Ex. Ex. Ex. Ex. Ex. Sun. Sun. Daily Daily Ex. Ex. Sun. Daily Daily G n. Sun. Sun LEAVE Sun. Sun. Sun. Sun. y only only A.M A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. A.M A.M P.M South West Harbor 8 50 11 20 7 10 North East Harbor 2 30 9 00 11 30 7 20 Seal Harbor 2 41 9 20 11 50 Bar Harbor 7 40 3 00 6 40 10 00 10 30 12 20 1 00 3 15 4 05 Sorrento 9 00 5 45 8 50 4 05 10 30 12 10 3 50 Hancock Pt 5 30 9 25 9 20 10 45 12 30 4 10 Sullivan 4 35 9 40 4 30 Mt. Desert Ferry 10 00 7 20 11 00 11 10 1 00 12 45 1 40 4 45 4 45 5 50 9 40 9 45 6 25 10 15 4 45 Through Tickets between Bar Harbor, Sorrento, Sullivan, Mc. Desert Ferry and Hancock Point, 50 cents single, and 75 cents return, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays, only 50 cents return. Between Bar Harbor: and Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor, 50 cts. single. Daily Excursions 75 cts. Between Mt. Desert Ferry, Sorrento, Sullivan and Hancock Point and Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor, $1.00 single. $1.75 Return. Daily Excursions $1.50. Between Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor 25 cents. Southwest Harbor, 35 cents. Between Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor. 25 cts. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Maine Central Railroad Mileage Tickets will not be accepted on steamers in Frenchman's Bay for actual miles travelled, but will be accepted in sufficient number of coupons to equal the value of the single fare between the landings travelled. GEO. F. EVANS, MORRIS McDONALD Vice-Pres. F. E. BOOTHBY, Gen'l Manager. General Superintendent. Gen'l Pass. & Ticket Agent. Harbard University. Cambridge. Mass. [19cz] Mont 10. than les. Dorr:- Jusio 1 noble his of go the indeed- vivant 2e quarter. Let the thank for hereby for teaching this point to we are Za for T have not the slightest doubt HUA. Harvard Univers ty. Subscription Records. Subscription for Emerson Hall. 1901-1905. that / y will go an nicely Jan Lorry that you did hot add addresses to whom to send for ther gifts. Ry the way last summer June you the plody of 1000 from a lewyer in Alley, T think his have was Haudi he belorgs into the list too. 2. 3. buy May 10.04 Jean Mr. Dors:- Ines today more Luc - coupal and thus I wired for for that I have found apparently a suitable by for four dinner next the 18th seems all right. I have removed my leminary therefore ha another date and have asked Dana Lie, Robbier, Pilmer, Teacher Januer, Rogue Hames, Sandagers to Reep that earning free to this gives eleven persons anyhay Third not know whether for want to add still younger members of the Department D. learn, Miller, Hols, Yorker, Norton would have rather 1/26/2020 Xfinity Connect Eugene L Roberts Collection Printout RONALD EPP 1/26/2020 3:17 PM Eugene L. Roberts Collection To gordon_daines@byu.edu Dear Mr. Daines: I am writing to ask if you have an interest in possibly supplementing your Eugene L. Roberts Collection UA562.. In his teenage years, Roberts developed a relationship with George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), a subject I treat in Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr (Bar Harbor: Friends of Acadia, 2016). This relationship began when Roberts became a part of the Southwest geological research team led by Harvard professor William Morris Davis, a friend of Dorr who accompanied him on this 1902 adventure. As a retired academic library director, I am familiar with Jonathan Romine's 1984 dissertation on Roberts. While I devote only a single page in my bio to the brief intersection of their lives, the Sawtelle Research Center at Acadia National Park contains a January 2, 1903 five-hundred-word typescript letter from Eugene to Dorr which may not be in your holdings--and a copy of which I offer to you. In this letter he attributes to Dorr his success in "attending school by teaching physical culture as a means of paying for the school year. {and] that our experience together this summer has been a great help to me in my work." He also remarks that his father had visited with Dorr on a trip to New England that included a visit with professor Davis. Of course. I would be most interested in whether you have any information on G.B. Dorr. I have quite an extensive file on professor Davis should you wish to expand that aspect of Eugene's life. By the way, since you are responsible for the Yellowstone Collection, Dorr developed a deep relationship with NPS Director and Yellowstone Superintendent Horace M. Albright who provided Dorr with wise counsel in the last three decades of Dorr's life. 018 Part_2.jpeg (700x1093) Notz: Below is a copy of G.B.Dorr's handwrittan entry in a guide führerbucher, completed in late 1902 in Glacier, British Columbia (see emails). This discovery Peter Dreher extended my understanding of Dorr's t 6/2 102 l have had great pleasure a climbing limit Christian Kaufusm and I have felt throughent the most lution Confidence in his skill. his thought and his faithfulness / Jease of perform sibility The Climbs we made together - and I will they my have been many turn -- wen hit Stephen, about's Pass, r Duchesty Pass He Cam with me to Glacin, togethe wit Cli. Masle, a 4 Clinic Sii wonald but those Mounted the ascent Sept. 28th George R. work Glacin M of Robler u.s.a. 1902 2. Re: Inquiry: George Bucknam Dorr Ronald Epp 11:01 AM To Steven Holmes Copy Peter Dreher Dear Peter and Steve. What a surprise to receive your inquiry. I have have just moved from Pennsylvania to a new home just west of Hartford CT and only yesterday was my Internet connectivity re- established. I do have information not disclosed in Creating Acadia National Park regarding Dorr's activity in late September 1902. Dorr was out West that summer with Harvard geologist William Morris Davis engaged in field studies in Utah and Arizona. Before he departed he indicated in a letter to the curator of the Harvard Herbarium his hope to visit the northwest and Canadian Rockies. As I explain in my book, he published "Two National Monuments" in 1917 about his adventure but not what followed in late September. The Acadia National Park archives contain fragments of his 1902 travel diary. This documentation is in Pitman shorthand, a technique he and Charles W. Eliot used. Much of this documentation is marred by a scribbling over the entries but clarified by an occasional transcription in a hand other than Mr. Dorr. Because it appeared to be such an unfruitful document I did not try to have it transcribed. BUT, in the entry for Sept. 24, 1902 is "Mt. Stephens [unintelligible] 3:30," written after several days of references to activities around Abbot Pass and Lake Louise.B October 2 he is in Seattle and Portland. I can send you copies of the entries if you provide contact information. I would very much like to know more, Peter, about your project.ar more specific information on the source of the Glacier reference to "George [B?] Dorr of Boston." I much appreciate Steve reaching out to me and am curious as well about his inquiries. Best, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 603-491-1760 3. eppster2@comcast.net On March 16, 2018 at 10:38 AM Steven Holmes wrote: Peter - Hi! I hope you are well. Thanks for the note, interesting to hear of your coming across Dorr in your own research. Yes, looking at Ron Epp's biography of Dorr (page 113), it seems that GBD did take a Western trip in summer 1902, with the Canadian Rockies as a possible destination - but the details are pretty sketchy, with little evidence as to where he actually visited on the trip (see note 31 on overall lack of evidence about the trip). So, I think your find might be of interest to Ron (whom I'm therefore including in this e-mail) - it would be great to have confirmation, but it seems likely this was indeed Dorr, and your info therefore may both nail down one destination on an otherwise hazy trip, and also shine a bit more light on Dorr's development as a serious mountaineer - again according to Ron, this comes 2 years before Dorr's much-better-documented trip to the Sierras, where he scaled Mt Whitney - maybe this Canadian mountaineering served as preparation for that later success. The Swiss guide angle seems potentially interesting too, given Dorr's European leanings (though I forget if he mountaineered in the Alps or not ...). Though again, would be great to have a smidge more data to make it all click. Maybe you have more evidence on all this, Ron? Cheers, Steve Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D. Scholar-in-Residence at the Boston Nature Center, Mattapan, MA Home: 21 Eldridge Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 USA 617-285-2832 Email: stevenpavlosholmes@gmx.com Alternate: stevenjholmes@post.harvard.edu https://facingthechangeanthology.wordpress.com/about-the-editor/ Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 at 2:35 PM From: Peter Dreher To: stevenpavlosholmes@gmx.com Subject: Inquiry: George Bucknam Dorr Hello Steven Holmes, I just read your biography of George Bucknam Dorr in the Sept/Oct 2016 issue of Harvard Magazine. And I was wondering if you might know whether Dorr did some mountain/glacier climbing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and Silkirks around September 28, 1902. I'm doing some research on Swiss mountaineers (i.e., guides) in Canada during the turn of the century. I have a reference--written at Glacier, B.C.--to "George [B?] Dorr of Boston" climbing Mt. Stephen and attempting to climb Mt. Sir Donald. Could this be a George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944)? Thanks so much for taking the time to consider my question. Best wishes, Peter Dreher Olney, MD 212 4. 3/18/2018 XFINITY Connect Inbox Re: Inquiry: George Bucknam Dorr Dreher Peter 2:08 PM To Ronald Epp Copy Steven Holmes 1 attachment View Open in browser Download Dear Steve and Ron, Thank you both for your kind e-mails. For the past few years, I have been researching several Swiss mountain guides from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who climbed in the Alps and in Canada. Specifically, I am hoping to put together some biographies of Peter Kaufmann (1832-1903); Peter Kaufmann (1858-1924); Peter Kaufmann (1886-1971); Christian Kaufmann (1872-1939); Hans Kaufmann (1874- 1930). I have been lucky enough to obtain copies of the Fuhrerbücher of some of the guides. As you probably know these small "notebooks" are carried by the guides so that clients can write references or detail events about excursions. One of those references was written on September 28, 1902, by George B. Dorr of Boston. And now that you, Ron, mentioned some more details (e.g., Mt. Stephen, Abbott Pass), we can be sure it is indeed George B. Dorr. I have attached a copy of the Führerbuch entry. Here is what it says, / have had great pleasure in climbing with Christian Kaufmann and / have felt throughout the most confidence in his skill, his strength, and his faithfulness and sense of responsibility-The climbs we made together-and / wish there might have been many more-were Mt. Stephen, Abbott's Pass, and Duchesnay Pass. He came with me to Glacier together with Chr[istian] Häsler, to climbed Sir Donald but snow precluded the ascent. George B. Dorr of Boston, U.S.A. Sept. 28, 1902 Glacier, B.C. Source: Kaufmann, Christian. Führerbuch, nach dem Reglement für die Bergführer und Träger vom 24. Juni 1892. Interlaken, 1892, p. 102. It is interesting that GBD became a serious mountaineer and that he later climbed Mt. Whitney. I would be curious to know if there was any further reference to the Canadian climbs and/or the guides. Sometimes Kaufmann's Canadian clients sought him out in the Alps as well; but I know of no record of GBD climbing in Switzerland. You might be interested in my article, posted on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter Kaufmann (Alpine guide) At the moment, I am working on a biography of Christian Kaufmann (1872-1939), which I also hope to post on Wikipedia on the near future. Yes, I would very much appreciate any further documents about GBD in the Rockies or the Selkirks. Thank you both for your feedback on this. Best wishes, Note: See TRAVEL: 1902 Canadian Peter Rockies file elsewhere in Peter Dreher Olney, MD 20832 Dorr Archiva! Harvard Magazine. 119, (Sept./oct. 2016), n.44-45. VITA George Bucknam Dorr Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944 by STEVEN PAVLOS HOLMES ULY 8 marked the centennial of the founding of the Sieur de tween the Yard and the Charles River. These tasks honed skills of J Monts National Monument in Maine, which within a few years planning, negotiation, and administration on which he drew when became the new National Park Service's first Eastern property. he turned to conserving open space on Mount Desert Island. The creation of what is known today as Acadia National Park was In the 1890s, living at his family's home on the island, Dorr devel- spearheaded by a wealthy Bostonian, George Bucknam Dorr, A.B. oped a real interest and expertise in landscape gardening, founding 1874, who also served as its first superintendent. the Mt. Desert Nurseries, working on other landscaping and con- Dorr's Brahmin family lived in bucolic Jamaica Plain until he was servation projects there (sometimes alongside future landscape ar- seven, and he wrote later, "My earliest recollections are concerned chitect Beatrix Farrand), and, further afield, advising friends such with gardens Of his grandfather's home in rural Canton, he re- as the novelist Edith Wharton on her estate in the Berkshires. called: "There, in real country, with woods and a lake for neigh- In 1891, President Eliot's son Charles, a landscape architect, and bors, dogs and horses for companions, my brother and I grew up, others founded The Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts springs and falls, till college days." His mother read him works by "for the purpose of acquiring, holding, arranging, maintaining and the Lake Poets, and "Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, Carlyle opening to the public, under suitable regulations, beautiful and and Ruskin came to be part of me, grew into my being." In 1868, the historical places and tracts of land" within the Commonwealth. family bought property on Mount Desert Island in Maine, where By the early 1900s, increasing threats to the scenery of Mount Harvard president Charles William Eliot was a summer neighbor. Desert Island led to that model of private ownership of conserva- The lifelong impact of Dorr's youthful stuttering is harder to tion land being transferred to Maine: the Hancock County Trust- gauge. Thanks most likely to a supportive family and the insights ees of Public Reservations was created, with Charles William of an understanding doctor, Edward Warren, A.M. 1826, M.D. 1829 Eliot as president and Dorr as vice president and executive offi- (himself a stutterer), the condition proved no bar to his becoming a cer. After initial land acquisitions and conservation measures, it sociable and publicly engaged man. Warren's assertion that a stut- became clear that negotiating the varied interests involved would terer searching for a career should choose "that pursuit in which require not a private organization but rather public ownership his defect shall afford the smallest obstacle to his progress" may and management, achieved with the transfer of the assembled have supported Dorr in forging a new kind of profession suited to properties to federal authority as a national monument in 1916. his passions and abilities-including the very qualities of persis- During his long tenure as superintendent, Dorr committed all tence and tenacity required to manage his stutter. his personal, social, and financial resources to the site's develop- After college, Dorr largely spent time with his parents in Europe ment-solidifying its status through designation as Lafayette and in Maine. Around 30, though, he began a decades-long engage- National Park in 1919 (renamed Acadia in 1929), expanding its ment with philosophy. An early spark may have been his chance holdings through negotiation with local landowners, and work- meeting in Boston with Josiah Royce, whom Dorr then introduced ing with John D. Rockefeller and others to create the park's fa- to his friend William James. After Royce joined James in Harvard's mous system of carriage roads. In contrast to the first Western philosophy department in the mid 1880s, Dorr read Spinoza with parks-claimed as "wilderness" and expropriated wholesale-the him privately, exploring the unity of God and nature in light of new gradual development of Acadia respected the legal and cultural scientific theories such as evolution. Spinoza's belief in the exis- precedents of its Eastern (and white) constituency. Yet in shap tence of enduring order and meaning within the constantly chang- ing a national park in "a peopled region where human associations ing material world may have colored Dorr's growing appreciation replace in a measure the appeal of far-reaching wildness made in of the weather-beaten granite rocks and ceaseless waves of Mount other parks," Dorr's vision of Acadia still offered "one great ele- Desert Island, shaping (together with the Transcendental influences ment of wildness"-"contact with the ocean and the sight from of his youth) his later outlook on conservation as "not a question mountainous heights of its great plain of waters stretching bound- of breathing-spaces and physical well-being only; it goes far beyond lessly away till hidden by the curvature of the earth." that and is deeply concerned with the inner life of men." Dorr's philosophy connections also led him to serve on (and Steven Pavlos Holmes, M.T.S.'87, Ph.D. '96, is Scholar-in-Residence at the Bos- sometimes chair) the department's visiting committee for two ton Nature Center in Mattapan, Massachusetts. He is indebted to Ronald Epp decades. He led fundraising for a new building, Emerson Hall, to for his groundbreaking Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography house the department and helped Harvard acquire properties be- of George Bucknam Dorr (Friends of Acadia, 2016). Opposite (clockwise from top): Eagle Lake and North Bubble Mountain, from the lake's north ml George B. Dorr on the Beachcroft Path on Huguenot Head; Mount Desert Island, from Baker Island; and Dorr at Jordan Pond, with the Path Committee in 1923 for right). and with Harvard president Charles William Eliot (at left) The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving - The Washington Post Page 1 of 7 The Washington Post NOT NOW Get the Recipes Newsletter Free weekly updates delivered just for you. Food The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving By David Hagedorn November 21, 2014 In the bustling, modern kitchen of a farm near Asheville, preparations for Thanksgiving dinner are in full swing, providing a perfect snapshot of a farm-to-table movement taking root in western North Carolina. The 25-pound Bronze turkey simmering in a water bath on the stove, to be later roasted in a wood-fired oven, came from the farm's poultry yards. So did the eggs being hard-boiled and grated for the bird's corn bread dressing. The on-site dairy produced the milk, butter and cream from the farm's Golden Lad Jersey cows. The Queen sweet potatoes, White Plume celery, parsnips, onions and pumpkins getting peeled, chopped, boiled, roasted or pureed were grown in fields below the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers. Spinach and lettuce were pulled from the property's glass-roofed greenhouses. Or SO I imagine. This Thanksgiving dinner, in my mind's eye, takes place not in 2014 but in 1902. The farm is Biltmore, a 125,000-acre estate, and the house a 250-room French Renaissance chateau. "Many novel dishes were set before the guests, the ingredients for which came from the good things raised on the estate farms and which were the original product of Biltmore's astute chef," the Asheville Citizen reported about that day. * In November 1902 Ad G. B. Dorr and Edith Atlantic Oceanside Hotel & Event $125.10 Expedia Guarantees the Best Price. Wharton accepted Expedia.com Thanksgiving invitation to Biltmore. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-biltmore-inspires-a-gilded-thanksgiving/... 5/7/2015 The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving - The Washington Post Page 2 of 7 Today, Biltmore - on much less land - is considered one of the nation's premier examples of Gilded Age architecture. The home, still the largest privately owned residence in the country, is also Asheville's biggest tourist attraction. What I didn't realize until I investigated, though, was just how visionary its owner, George Washington Vanderbilt II, was. His goal that the house be self-sufficient, like the European manors he much admired, made it an early example of a back-to-the-land focus that we now take for granted. Vanderbilt's influence, in fact, changed Asheville's landscape and even provided the backdrop for its current culinary boom. When I toured Biltmore in July, my guide noted how seriously the Vanderbilts took special occasions and mentioned that George's favorite meal was roast turkey and corn bread dressing. That set my wheels in motion. I decided that as Biltmore approaches the 120th anniversary of the house's completion, I'd develop a Thanksgiving menu as a tribute. First, some background. Vanderbilt was the last of eight children born to William Henry Vanderbilt, whose father, Cornelius, had amassed a fortune in railroads and shipping. Upon William Henry's death in 1885, George's two eldest brothers ran the family's business affairs, leaving George free to pursue pastoral interests. On a trip to Asheville with his mother, Maria, in 1888, Vanderbilt, then 26, was captivated by the Blue Ridge Mountains and decided to build a country home there. Construction took six years, from 1889 to 1895. By the time Biltmore was finished, the locals, skeptical about a millionaire New Yorker turning wilderness into manna, had been won over. "Vanderbilt the farmer," wrote the Asheville News and Hotel Reporter in 1887, "has shown the Carolinians the productive capacities of their Virgin Soil by the scientific drainage, the improved machinery, the importation of fine stock, the lavish use of fertilizers, and the most up-to-date and scientific methods " Vanderbilt employed the most talented people he could find, including experts in forestry, road building, horticulture, agriculture and general management. Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., who designed New York's Central Park, was the landscape architect, but he was more than that. "A land use planner, really," says Ted Katsigianis, Biltmore's vice president of agricultural and environmental sciences. "He convinced Vanderbilt that most of the land had to go back to forestry and managed sustainably like a crop, because everything else east of the Mississippi that was accessible had been logged." http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-biltmore-inspires-a-gilded-thanksgiving/... 5/7/2015 The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving - The Washington Post Page 3 of 7 Ad Post-Up Stand TM postupstand.com Pop Up Stands & Display Solutions. Online Help Available. Order Today! Pretty much everything was grown and raised at Biltmore: grain crops, forage crops, field crops, fruits, vegetables, poultry (hens, brooders, turkeys, ducks, game birds), Berkshire swine, lard hogs, Jersey cattle, sheep, goats, bees. What couldn't be produced there was bought from Asheville vendors or brought in by rail from the Northeast. In turn, the estate was selling enough products to be commercially viable by the beginning of the 20th century. Biltmore was cutting edge. Greenhouses (called forcing houses) supplied produce such as asparagus, melons, tomatoes and lettuce in the winter. The dairy, Vanderbilt's pride and joy, was tiled in white enamel for easy cleaning and had cold storage, ice and electric plants. Its three cattle barns were temperature controlled in winter and turned into open-air sheds in the summer. In 1898, Vanderbilt married Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, who was taken with Biltmore and involved herself in the lives of the farm families, says Leslie Klingner, Biltmore's curator of interpretation. She advocated literacy, created Biltmore Industries SO locals could earn money making furniture and handicrafts, and established a School of Domestic Science for African American women. She promoted agricultural reform and set up agricultural fairs and competitions. Biltmore House was the apogee of modernity at the turn of the century. It had electricity, hot and cold running water, a bowling alley, a 70,000-gallon indoor swimming pool, a gym, freight and passenger elevators, dumbwaiters, forced-air heat, an in-house telephone system, a centrally controlled clock system, an icemaking plant and refrigeration that used compressed ammonia gas to chill brine water. What is striking about Biltmore's basement-level kitchen, preserved in its original condition, is how brilliantly it was planned. With a bit of updating, you can easily picture a cadre of today's chefs happily working there. It has a walk-in cooler and three reach-in refrigerators. The dry goods storage room was lined in steel to keep it rodent-free. The spacious main kitchen, with its batterie of gleaming copper pots and pans hanging over the work space, features a large coal-and-wood-fired stove and a wood-burning grill. Separate rooms house a fruit and vegetable pantry, a root cellar for preserved foods, a pastry kitchen and an enormous wood-fired rotisserie with an electrically operated spit for roasting meat. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-biltmore-inspires-a-gilded-thanksgiving/... 5/7/2015 The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving - The Washington Post Page 4 of 7 All the better for producing a special dinner like Thanksgiving's. Although we don't know what the house served in 1902, we do know that the guests numbered 18, and many arrived in Vanderbilt's lavish private rail car, the Swannanoa, just in time for the holiday. Some of the guests had been at Biltmore all month. The meal was served in the banquet hall, 70 feet long and 42 feet wide with a 70-foot vaulted ceiling, adorned with flags of the 13 original states, moose and big-game heads, 16th-century Flemish tapestries, a triple fireplace and a pipe organ loft. Seating for the dinner was in the French style, with George and Edith facing each other at the center of the table and the guests of honor, noted architects Thomas Hastings and Charles McKim, at either head. The writer Edith Wharton, who frequented Biltmore, sat to George's right. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., a successor to his father's architectural firm, also attended. Olmsted Sr. died in 1903. The oak dining table, 12 feet wide, could extend from 1/2 feet to 40. It was always set, says Klingner, with a white damask tablecloth and napkins, all made by hand and most embroidered with the GWV monogram. The Vanderbilts' burgundy-and-gold-bordered china was made in England by Minton and Spode Copeland. Silver flatware featured an engraved Old English pattern from Frances Higgins, London, 1894. The delicate, feather-light crystal was Baccarat. Dinner was always served at 8 and was always formal dress. There were seven or eight courses, up to 10 for special occasions. Oysters on the half shell were a favored starter, followed by soup (often consommé), fish (bass and Spanish mackerel were popular choices), an entree (often an elaborate variety-meat dish), a relevé (a roasted meat joint or bird, plus multiple vegetable and starch side dishes), salad and black coffee, considered an aid to digestion. I developed my Biltmore tribute dinner mostly from one historical gold mine: a diary describing 14 weeks of menus for luncheons and dinners served between Sept. 27 and Dec. 31, 1904. In addition to turkey, the Thanksgiving menu that year included oysters, consommé, broiled Spanish mackerel, calf's brain cutlets and Virginia ham. Many of the menus contain notations and changes added by Vanderbilt or his wife, Edith. You'll notice one major difference between my tribute menu and those served at Biltmore: I trimmed mine to four courses, keeping in mind that you are unlikely to employ an English chef, a French assistant and 12 other cooks, as the Vanderbilts did. (The 12 cooks were women, 11 of them from Western North Carolina.) Advertisement http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-biltmore-inspires-a-gilded-thanksgiving/... 5/7/2015 The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving - The Washington Post Page 5 of 7 The first course is something I'm calling Oysters Biltmore, bivalves on the half shell with bits of country ham and a lemony scallion Mornay sauce that broils into browned, bubbling, cheesy perfection. The second is a Waldorf salad update from Asheville chef Katie Button, owner of Curate and Nightbell. A "salade" was always served before dessert at Biltmore dinners. The course was popular among wealthy people in the early 19th century because lettuce, being SO perishable, was a delicacy. That the Vanderbilts served lettuce grown in their own greenhouses in the winter would have impressed guests. The preparation George Vanderbilt liked most for roast turkey and dressing was that of Ellen Davis, a cook from Avery Creek, a few counties over, who came to work at Biltmore in 1899. As it turns out, her turkey recipe, sent to me by Klingner, results in a terrific bird. In a covered pan on top of the stove, Davis first simmered the bird in water covering its thighs, basting it regularly to keep the breast moist, then roasted it in the oven until golden brown. That method produces braised thigh meat that is tender and flavorful without overcooking the white meat: two hours for a 14-pound turkey. I added extra touches, including a two-day dry-brining and butter under the breast skin to eliminate the need to baste. A pencil notation added in George Vanderbilt's hand to a luncheon menu for Nov. 25, 1904, reads, "Give me puree of parsnip sometimes as a vegetable," SO I did, topping it with bruleed sweet potato disks as a riff on sweet potatoes with roasted marshmallows. Fried hominy appears often in the 1904 menus, usually as an accompaniment for duck. I fashioned cakes from grits, hominy, spinach, bacon and Parmesan cheese and sauteed them to golden brown crunchiness. Charlotte russe, a molded dessert of Bavarian cream surrounded by ladyfingers, was popular on the Vanderbilt table. My version is a showstopper: pumpkin Bavarian cream encased in strips of gingerbread and topped with caramelized pineapple, a fruit often served at the Vanderbilt table. Advertisement There's another reason to pay tribute to Biltmore this Thanksgiving: This year is the 100th anniversary of George Vanderbilt's death, after an emergency appendectomy. So raise a glass to him, and to his continuing influence. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-biltmore-inspires-a-gilded-thanksgiving/.. 5/7/2015 The Biltmore inspires a gilded Thanksgiving - The Washington Post Page 6 of 7 Soon after her husband died, at age 51, Edith sold off 85,000 acres of land to the U.S. Forestry Service, ensuring that the land would be protected, as he had wished. In 1930, the Vanderbilts' only child, Cornelia, and her husband, John Cecil, opened Biltmore to the public. After World War II, farms became more specialized and Biltmore concentrated on its dairy operation. In the 1950s, the Cecils' two sons took over the estate's operations. George oversaw the dairy, his brother William the house. The present-day historic site of Biltmore, still owned by the Cecil family, includes 8,000 acres. The balance of the land was inherited over generations by members of the Vanderbilt and Cecil families. When the dairy was sold off in 1982, William Cecil decided to return to his grandfather's original vision of a varied, food-producing estate. In 1983, he replaced the dairy with a winery and hired Katsigianis, who has a PhD in animal breeding, to establish a beef cattle operation. "We started with Angus, added sheep in the early '90s, then a poultry program based on George Vanderbilt's breeds and free-range pigs," says Katsigianis. "Seven years ago we started experimenting with Wagyu genetics and now have a small herd of Angus-Wagyu crosses." That's very 2014, in an 1895 kind of way. Hagedorn is a food writer and former chef. He will join Wednesday's Free Range chat with readers at noon at live.washingtonpost.com. Recipes: Oysters Biltmore Parsnip Puree With Bruleed Sweet Potatoes Corn Bread Dressing Fried Hominy Cakes With Spinach and Bacon Waldorf Salad George Vanderbilt's Favorite Roast Turkey and Gravy http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-biltmore-inspires-a-gilded-thanksgiving/... 5/7/2015 / A Charming North Carolina Resort Larles sow as run in from objects offered to the baby at a certain distance Community Grasping fessor at such objects was the sort of performance which Pro- off. William Willia stinctive Baldwin seems most to have observed. It is obviously etc. directly or semi-reflex act; and I should much rather an in- ries by connate paths alone, than by connate paths plus explain memo- it of plus choice, after Professor Baldwin's fashion. The Ward, fail, my opinion, to throw any positive light at all on the I must in therefore conclude that Professor Baldwin's observations question out of of whether we feel our motor-nerve currents as they vexed our brain. In themselves, however, these observations pass Sence: very interesting as showing how strong stimuli may produce seem definitely at localized re-actions than weaker ones. The baby grasped more Eds. trip bright colors with the right hand almost exclusively. WILLIAM JAMES. Jane Harvard University, Nov. 5. 1903 S.C. 39 Councine. A Charming North Carolina Resort (1891) New To THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST: Sir: I am just back from a fortnight's tour in the mountain of North Carolina and Tennessee, and it seems to me a public spirited thing to say to those of your readers who are fond of fin landscape and to whom the White Mountains and Adirondack are a twice told tale, that if they do likewise they will have thei Tickets reward. Nothing can be easier or freer from hardships of kind 1/7/19 Nothing thirty dollars; and from Asheville, Mount Mitchell, the highe to Asheville from New York and return can be bought any fc peak il east of the Rockies, can be reached, ascended (on horsebac II ell's need be), and the return made, in two days. The walk up Mitc made. peak is the most beautiful forest walk (only five hours) I ev Farther From Asheville, or still better Hot Springs, only a few mil west on the same road, the foot of Roan Mountain can 1 only disagreeable part of the whole journey is a stupid wait of thr reached in a day by rail, via Morristown and Johnson City. T 133 2 Comments: Letters to the Editor Abbot against Royce hours in the second rate Tennessee town of Morristown. The fam- and with views that are simply magnificent opening out at every ous Johnson City and Cranberry Railroad brings one in a couple turn, of hours to Roan Mountain Station. This railroad is perhaps the If one just wants to see the quality of the North Carolina moun- wildest and most romantic little narrow-gauge concern that the tain country, let him take a ticket to Hickory on the Richmond and world contains, being hewn for the most part in the solid vertical Danville Railroad, and proceed up to Blowing Rock the next morn- walls of a gorge down which a mountain torrent flows. One can ing, and thereafter to Linville the Ideal. But if one have twelve get to the top of Roan Mountain either by stage, by horse, or on days at one's disposal, the whole trip, as I have described it, can be foot; and there one finds magnificent views, and a large and fairly easily made. It leaves on the mind an impression of simplicity and good hotel. Coming down, and proceeding some eight miles to richness combined. A multitudinous ocean of lofty hills, a virgin Granberry (an iron mine, with an exquisite little sylvan hotel), one forest of surpassing beauty, and an atmosphere of intensely colored takes the stage for Linville. light. Two weeks of "heaven-up-histedness," to use the expression All your readers have heard of Asheville; perhaps not twenty of an old Adirondack guide. We Northern tourists make a great have heard either of Linville or of Blowing Rock. Linville is simply mistake in not going farther away from home. September must be the most high-toned and gentlemanly "land enterprise" to be found an admirable month for the trip. But late June or early July will on the continent Some twenty-five square miles of beautiful wilder- show the woods all ablaze with the rhododendrons and azaleas. ness have been bought; between thirty and forty miles of road have W.J. been already built, and as many more staked out for building, and CHOCORUA, N.H., August 31. harming modern hotel has been put up. This, with nine Queen Anne cottages, an ice-house, a stable, a small store and post-office, and some macadamized avenues in the square clearing, which forms the centre of the hoped-for town, are all that the visitor finds. Around them the primeval forest waves, and the eternal moun- tainsstand 11 is Eden before the advent of the serpent. Not a loafer, 40 not a discordant touch or tone. The level is about 4,000 feet above the sea, and the air, perfumed as it is with the forest-breath, is de- licious. The roads are wonderfully laid out. The planner of the Abbot against Royce (1891) scheme, Mr. S. T. Kelsey, seems to have a genius for this work, and the result is mile upon mile of evenly graded zigzags in various di- rections, opening out at every turn views of extraordinary beauty. These are the only roads I have seen in America which resemble To THE EDITOR OF THE NATION: the great Swiss roads. Alas, that they must as yet be of clay instead SIR: Mr. Peirce's letter on this subject in your last week's is- of macadam! If the twenty miles of drive from Cranberry to Lin- sue unfortunately brings it before the larger public; and, since ville are delightful, what shall be said of those from Linville to Mr. Peirce professes to be a neutral judge, it may leave on your Blowing Rock? They run through the forest over the mountain readers an impression unfair to Prof. Royce if nothing more gets sides, all the way by one of those wonderful roads, and must be said. May I take a little of your space to record my opinion of the seen to be appreciated Blowing Rock is a sort of inland Mount merits of the case? Desert in its early ante-fashionable days. Somewhat chaotic, a lit- First, the facts. Professor Royce, one of the editors of the In- 1/c rough and crowded in its accommodations, with 600 visitors ternational Journal of Ethics, wrote, in its first number, a review, there when I passed through, mostly young people having a "good seventeen pages long, of Dr. Abbot's 'Way Out of Agnosticism. time," it bids fair to be a great summer resort ere long. Ten years This review was altogether technical in character, but hostile in ago il was wholly unknown to the outer world. It is a broad ridge content, impugning both the value and the originality of Dr. Ab- over 4.000 feet above sea level, with good roads in many directions, bot's philosophy. Reviews of philosophical books in technical LETTERS Harvard Facebook. The implication that it was only Jr.) for an ascent of HM after the revelation of the inappropriate use Mount Mitchell, the of Facebook data by Cambridge/Analytica highest peak in east- Visit harvardmag.com ern North America. for additional letters. Authors! that it was necessary "to ask broader ques- tions..." is not supported by the facts. Yet their most Were Faust and the members of the Cor- lasting institutional contribution may have poration and the Board of Overseers unaware been as charter members of the Harvard Miss the deadline for our of the extremely numerous/reports in widely Travellers Club, established in 1902 Under Holiday Reading List? read publications over many years regard- Davis's presidency, speakers discussed their ing the cavalier attitude toward user privacy explorations of sites from the South Pole to of Facebook leadership (e.g.: https://www. Abyssinia. Dorr's home was the site of the wired.com/story/facebook-a-history-of- club's second meeting-which continues to WE CAN DO IT mark-zuckerberg-apologizing/?mbid=Botto convey their enthusiasm to this day. mRelatedStories),in conjunction with evi- RONALD H. 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For information about pricing VITAE Kotouc both and ad specifications, go to: WITHIN two years, profiles of George Buck- Hunn Memorial Schools Charles E. nam Dorr and William Morris Davis have and Scholarships twards harvardmagazine.com/hauthors Gilbert III been published (September-October 2016, in photo captions (Septem contact Gretchen Bostrom page 44; September-October 2018, page 44). ber-October at 617-496-6686, or e-mail Neither profile mentioned the other alum- In the first classifieds@harvard.edu. nus by name, though their relationship was of Little Shards tight-especially in 1902 when Davis invited nance (September-Oc- Dorr to join his scientific team to the Ameri- tober page can Southwest. Later that year Dorr returned went MISSIDE from Michael TURNTO PAGE 62 the favor by inviting Davis to join his com- Schacher's name John F. to browse the I Holiday Reading List panions (including Frederick Law Olmsted We regres these Kotouc 6 NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2018 Additional Information On Harvard Travellers Club: August 29, 2018 William Morris Davis called together at the Harvard Union on November 15, 1902 a cadre of Harvard men and others who he thought might be interested in "promoting intelligent travel and exploration." Archibald Cary Coolidge, Copley Amory, Roland B. Dixon, and James H. Kidder present. Davis elected President. Those registered at the first meeting did not include GBD. In a listing of meetings between inception and the start of WWI (when disbanded for two years), 117 meetings or roughly about eight each year. A significant number of meetings had as their topuic the exploration of Canada (excluding Alaska), with most in the Canadian Rockies (see items 30, 34, 47, 48, 67, 69, 99, 146, 159, 185, 196, 198, 201, 2016). Several speakers return, some up to a half dozen times. W. Rodman Peabody speaks on the ascent of Mt. Mummery, Theodore Lyman and trips to British Columbia, and Robert Blake on mountain sheep country of B.C, the first Canadian Rockies talk (Dec. 21, 1906). Could GBD have had a hand in program creation only four years after his travel there? First meeting at a member residence is March 25, 1904 at Dorr's Commonwealth Avenue home. Oddly, list of members has Dorr doer 1828-1932, voluntary resignation. Dorr not listed as Charter member. Other names with connections to GBD: Bowditch, C.P., ernest, and Henry. Richard H. Dana, Charles E. Fay, E.W. Forbes, W. Cameron Forbes, Richard W. Hale, F.L. Olmsted Jr., James. S. Pray, Dorr not listed as president or vice president through the first three decades. R.Epp December 29.00 10/02 18 Commonwealth Avenue. 643 My dear President Uist The situation is just This unit regard is the Harvard approach fund! only $31000 have been actually subscribed, and affelent whom. as you know. I telegraphed you list IS be able is offer Wrt less than $40000 possible on Pages 2- one her Ann HRA Affletin asks the is lettein kum as early as possible what the action of its board June, ite-, is, so that he may love 4w these in raisin, the anome needed, if the decision is fainable W new approach, which du matter is push - and for the fame Halm I should be glad is it myself- Trusting it qua, go through successfully. I am Smeary Your 2. them. however- The ground I gol him is unit drais upon Was the offeritis he would, at press extainly have (s lucenter to the , legislation from the Summer residents, V then subsequent hostiliz build- Mu Drog arranged the interned Viea Wh j he should succed in gette leave . 15 present at it and I have had a tele- gram from him today La, in that in vin of this the Mumism pilition also would be with draw GAn [G.B Dorr] NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (3-82) Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places received MAY 22 985 Inventory-Nomination Form date entered 20 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries-complete applicable sections 1. Name historic Ellsworth Powerhouse and Dam and or common 2. Location street & number Union River less than one mile north from downtown Ellsworth not for publication city, town Ellsworth, N/A vicinity of state Maine code 23 county Hancock code 009 3. Classification Category Ownership Status Present Use district public occupied agriculture museum X building(s) private unoccupied commercial park X structure both work in progress educational private residence site Public Acquisition Accessible entertainment religious object N/A in process yes: restricted government scientific being considered yes: unrestricted industrial transportation no military other: 4. Owner of Property name Bangor Hydro-Electric Company street & number Box 932 city, town Bangor vicinity of state Maine 04101 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Hancock County Registry of Deeds street & number city, town Ellsworth, state Maine 6. Representation in Existing Surveys title N/A has this property been determined eligible? N/A yes no date federal state county local depository for survey records city, town state 7. Description Condition Check one Check one X excellent deteriorated unaltered X original site good ruins altered moved date fair unexposed Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The Ellsworth Powerhouse and Dam, completed in 1907, is one of the earliest in Maine. The dam is an Ambursen type, or hollow, and is supported by cement buttresses which are three feet thick, one hundred feet long, and from sixty to seventy-one feet high. They form the supports of two large slabs of cement, reinforced with steel bars, which extend entirely across the river and rest on granite ledges. The seventy-one foot high dam, with a sixty foot spillway, is located bwtween two granite bluffs which rise nearly one hundred feet. Located at the foot of the western bluff, the Power House is of concrete block construction and one-and-one-half stories high with a gable roof covered with red Spanish tiles, Designed in a Rennaissance style, the building provides a well-lighted interior with large round arched windows linked by a stone belt course. The cornice has modillion blocks, returns and a Palladian window in the gable end. An addition ont he rear of this structure repeats the original classical motifs with round arched windows. 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below prehistoric archeology-prehistoric community planning landscape architecture religion 1400-1499 archeology-historic conservation law science 1500-1599 agriculture economics literature sculpture 1600-1699 architecture education military social/ 1700-1799 art engineering music humanitarian 1800-1899 commerce exploration/settlement philosophy theater 1900- communications industry politics/government transportation invention other (specify) Specific dates 1907 Builder/Architect James T. Leonard, Chief Engineer Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The Ellsworth Powerhouse and Dam, located less than one mile from downtown Ellsworth, is one of the oldest "peaking" facilities in the state, and repre- sents a unique design, for the dam itself is hollow (called an Ambursen type, after the designer). It consists of two thin steel reinforced slabs of concrete support by concrete buttresses built at fifteen foot intervals. The dam is ed also the highest of its type ever constructed, and the granite ledge upon which it sits insures longevity. The engineer of the project was James T. Leonard, distinguished in his field, who worked for the Bar Harbor and Union River Power Company (acquired by Bangor Hydro-Electric in 1925). In 1928 Leonard wrote a report which contains the following vivid and colorful description: "Owing to the natural beauty of the surroundings, the great height of the dam, and the architectural features of the power house, the Ellsworth station is undoubtedly the handsomest power station in New England. The dam and power house are located between two rugged granite bluffs rising almost perpendicularly to a height of nearly one hundred feet above the bed of the river; between these primeval ledges stretches a massive dam of concrete and steel, rising seventy-one feet above the bed rock, the highest power dam in New England. The power house is located at the foot of the bluff on the westerly side of the river, and is a handsome building constructed of concrete block, with large circular topped windows nearly thirty feet high; above these windows is an ornate cornice formed of concrete, and the building is surmounted by a roof of red Spanish tiles." 9. Major Bibliographical References Bangor Hydro-Electric News, Vol. 1, No. 2, January 16, 1928, Bangor, Maine. Article by James T. Leonard, Engineer, Bar Harbor and Union River Power Company. 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 2 Quadrangle name Ellsworth Quadrangle scale 1:24000 UTM References A B 19 545240 4932260 Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing C D E F G H Verbal boundary description and justification Assessor's Map 34, Lot 88 List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state code county code state code county code 11. Form Prepared By Arthur name/title Frank A. Beard, Historian/Robert L. Bradley, Architectural Historian/Daniel Feeley, Intern organization Maine Historic Preservation Commission date April, 1985 street & number 55 Capitol Street, Station #65 telephone 207/289-2132 city or town Augusta, state Maine 04333 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. 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