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Series 3: Graphic materials (continued)
Color slides (continued)
Buildings and various scenes, Fort Kent, Maine, and Eagle Lake, Maine, June 26, 1991 (continued)
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C003 Buildings and various scenes, Fort Kent, Maine, and Eagle Lake, Maine, June 26, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c003
20 35mm color slides
Continuation of Ft. Kent; Eagle Lake buildings; 1-13, potato houses on Market Street, beside Bangor and Aroostook Railroad tracks; railroad flat cars loaded with harvested logs to be shipped to regional lumber and paper mills; 11-13, show historic BAR depot beside tracks; 14-15, Acadian type house on corner of Dube St. and U.S. Hwy. 1, Ft. Kent; 16-17, farm: potato house of 20th century variety (partly subterranean), Maine highway 11 south of Ft. Kent at Wallagrass; 18, Acadian cottage (center) with attached additions, Ft. Kent, on Me. 11; 19, Eagle Lake post office; 20, retirement home, Ft. Kent.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C004 Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine, June 26, 1991 - June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c004
20 35mm color slides
The Val Violette House is an important Acadian dwelling, in the piece-sur-piece en colombage construction tradition, and on National Register of Historic Places; 1-2, "temple form" Greek Revival-influenced Victorian period farm house, on Maine 11 near Eagle Lake, June 26; 3, John Brown house, on Me. 11 across the highway from Phil Brown house (fieldworkers' lodgings); note its color scheme: "sang de beouf" (ox blood shade of red plus grey); this color scheme is important regional identity in the St. John valley; 4, USGS quadrangle map of field research, on office wall, Ft. Kent field headquarters; 13, views of Val Violette House, US 1, Van Buren; this is a large and expanded version of the 19th century Acadian cottage house type; piece-sur-piece / log construction with columns (en colombage); note Greek Revival cornice and pilasters and other stylistic period decoration details; 14, Ray Brassieur inspects pieces of the madriers (logs) left from a remodeling of the Violette House; note the shape and size of these logs that were horizontal logs set flush (piece-sur-piece construction); not the tenon on the end of the log that was let into the groove (coulisse) in the vertical column; 15-18, details of roof construction in Violette House; note joints, note original decking under roofing; 19, equipment found by Brassier in the attic with a loom; 20, Sisters visiting there: S. Ludwina Deveau (a nun) (rt.) and her sister, Sister Hermine Deveau (a Marist missionary) * SEND COURTESY PRINT OF THIS SLIDE TO THEM (RB has address).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C005 Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Houses, Madawaska, Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c005
20 35mm color slides
Continuation of Val Violette House; etc.; 1, Sisters visiting the Violette Hous; S. Ludwina Deveau (a nun) (rt.) and her sister, Sister Hermine Deveau (a Marist missionary); 2, DO, with Brassieur; 3-4, houses, Upper Frenchville; 5-7, Railroad water tank and caboose reconstructed by Frenchville historical society; 8-9, Frenchville Video Outlet and Jesse's Foodland (1-543-6011, Mr. Jesse Michaud, PO Box 225, Frenchville, ME 04745); the "square of the house" is a piece-sur-piece log Acadian cottage; compare with Plourdes Store, Soldier Pond (similar reconfiguring of Acadian house as a community grocery store); 10, house, Madawaska; 11, commercial building, Madawaska; 12-13, olive green Greek / neoclassical detailed vernacular house (central hall house type), Madawaska on Hwy. 246; 14-16, Brunswick Beverages / Aroostook Butter bldg., Hwy. 1, Madawaska; 17, Fred Albert house, Madawaska; 18, vinyl siding / natural wood pilasters, Greek vernacular house, west of Madawaska on US 1; 19-20, Soldier Pond rest stop, picnic area on Me. 11; interpretive sign about early roads to Ft. Kent (1839 Fish River Road, etc.).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C006 Soldier Pond historic site, Maine; Vernacular buildings on Maine 11 near Eagle Lake, Maine; Acadian Village Museum near Van Buren, Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c006
20 35mm color slides
1-6, Soldier Pond (Fish River) rest stop and picnic area; historic site and interpretive sign; on Me. 11 s. of Ft. Kent; 7-9, Hwy. 11, brown shingled house s. side of highway; 10-13, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Wallagrass (on 11); statue; 14-17, Acadian Village outdoor museum; reconstructed buildings, n. of Van Buren, US 1: #14 is the main office and museum shop; #16 view of several building; 18-20, Parent-Roy log house of the earliest Acadian variety, much like houses of the British or Anglo-Americans except for the closeness of the fit of the pieces / logs and cornering details (#20); note the square notching of the horizontal logs at the corners but with the vertical wooden pins to lock the corners in place (partially destroyed during museum relocation and reconstruction); note also that the logs are hewn with a broad axe square on all four sides and they fit flush horizontally (unlike Anglo-American log construction).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C007 Acadian Village outdoor museum, near Van Buren Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c007
20 35mm color slides
Continuation of buildings at Acadian Village outdoor museum: Parent-Roy log house; Maison Morneault; 1-4, continuation of Parent-Roy log house: interior; 5-10, Parent-Roy log house, exterior; note roof detail (eave treatment) in #11: this is a Quebec tradition; 12—20, Maison Morneault historic house, Acadian Village museum; a piece-sur-piece Acadian cottage en colombage; c. 1857; post office addition to south gable end; ship's knees in sleeping loft (two pair); note detailing around front door of the house (classical revival; federal); note bird house attached to corner of the house (as with other Acadian houses).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C008 Acadian Village outdoor near Van Buren, Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c008
20 35mm color slides
Maison Morneault (piece-sur-piece), Maison Ouellette (log construction); grange Acadien (frame); 1-10, Maison Morneault, continued: interior; newspaper wall and ceiling insulation in second story (sleeping loft); 11-17, Maison Ouellette, 1859 Acadian cottage; horizontal log construction (perhaps half-dovetailed); 18-20, "grange Acadien," frame Acadian barn of the early Quebec type, reconstructed at the museum; note that the Acadian barn type is very much like the standard "English" barn in its type.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C009 Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine; Scenes in Frenchville, Maine; Log house, New Sweden, Maine; Notre Dame du Mont Carmel Catholic church, Lille, Maine, June 27, 1991 - June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c009
20 35mm color slides
1, Acadian barn, door; 2, Acadian Village museum founder and director, Mrs. Ann Roy, at the museum (leader, founder), Pres., La Heritage Vivant * SEND COURTESY PRINT OF THIS SLIDE TO MRS. ROY (C/ O RB); 3, "Gateway to Canada" float for festival or parade, at Acadian Village Museum; 4-5, "potato seed knife," purchased by Marshall at Frenchville Video Outlet / Jesse's Foodland (1-543-6011, Mr. Jesse Michaud, PO Box 225, * Frenchville, ME 04745); 6, highway sign, Frenchville; 7, Swedish log house, New Sweden community; Swedish full-dovetailed cornering; house being reconstructed, rehabbed; 20, at Lille, June 28, the Norte Dame du Mont Carmel Catholic church, being gradually reconstructed or restored by Don Cyr; on US 1. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places (continued).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C010 Lille church and other scenes, Lille, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c010
20 35mm color slides
This is the defunct Catholic church that Don Cyr is planning to restore; on the National Register; has lots of potential for Park Service interpretation, etc.; Notre Dame du Mont Carmel is its official name; 1-5, church; 6-14, the rectory / presbyter (Cyr's residence now); note niche for religious statues in exterior wall on front porch; 15-16, the cemetery behind the church; 17, view of the landscape behind the Lille community; 18, Don Cyr's truck with Acadian flag license plate; 19-20, property on main street in Lille, next to the church: connected farmstead to the rear, with a commercial building with false-front attached to the front of the house.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C011 Lille church and other scenes, Lille, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c011
20 35mm color slides
This is the defunct Catholic church that Don Cyr is planning to restore (Notre Dame du Mont Carmel)....; 1-4, vernacular houses across the highway from the church; 5-11, exterior of the church, continued; 12-20, interior of the church; note clerestory windows and religious statues (13), and the pair of cast-iron gilded angels that Don Cyr has restored and plans to put back into their original positions on the two tops of the chapel's twin towers; 14, shows one of the painted / marbleized wooden columns in the sanctuary.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C012 Lille church and other scenes, Lille, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c012
20 35mm color slides
defunct Catholic church that Don Cyr is planning to restore (Notre Dame du Mont Carmel); stored dismantled Violette Acadian cottage; 1-2, drift pins (hand-forged iron) used to secure ship's knees in the Violette house dismantled and stored by Don Cyr behind the church; 3-8, Ray Brassieur visits with Don Cyr behind the church * SEND COURTESY PRINT OF #5 to DON CYR (via RB); 9-10, Acadian barn, expanded and altered, that was part of the church property; Don Cyr stores salvaged parts of historic buildings inside the barn (next to the church rectory); 11-12, frame shed behind the church where Cyr stores some of the Violette house parts; 13-14, cemetery; 15-16, the barn in its proximity to the rectory; 17, Don Cyr and Brassieur discuss the buildings; 18-20, sections of the historic Violette house being stored by Don Cyr for future reconstruction; the house is on the National Register for Historic Places (but hardly capable of being viewed); the curved wooden element in the center of #18 is a ship's knee.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C013 Don Cyr property and murals, Lillie, Maine; Danny Labrie twin barn, St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c013
20 35mm color slides
"Twin barns" are a significant feature in the regional vernacular architecture of the St. John valley; 1-5, other elements of the dismantled Violette house on the Don Cyr property at Lille church; #1 is flooring, #3 is floor joists; #5 shows Ray Brassieur lifting the tarp to get a better look at the stored building; 6-7, Acadian murals painted by Don Cyr and used during festivals; 8, landscape — St. John River at Frenchville, from the road to the "back settlements" en route to the St. Agatha community; 9-20, the Danny Labrie frame twin barn, St. Agathe community 2 1/2 mi. south of Frenchville, on a prosperous family potato farm. A twin barn is essentially a pair of Acadian type barns placed one behind the other with the interstice framed in with a transverse roof; note that the exterior walls are shingled; interior views suggest the framing (documented in Marshall fieldnotes).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C014 Danny Labrie twin barn, St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c014
20 35mm color slides
"Twin barns" are a significant feature in the regional vernacular architecture of the St. John valley; this is a successful family-run modern potato farm with the latest in computer-assisted management practices; interior of the twin barn, continued; 2-7, the barn and its environs, including a new potato field under cultivation; 8-10, new sheet metal building used for equipment storage on the Labrie farm built on the model of 50-year old "quonset hut" designs developed during World War II; 11-18, continued views of the Danny Labrie frame twin barn; note shingling on the exterior walls (an important regional characteristic); 19, the Labrie farmstead; Acadian type house to the left, with typical appendages and broad porch.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C015 Potato houses and landscapes, St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 199
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c015
20 35mm color slides
potato houses are an important feature in the postrailroad landscape of the late 19th and of the 2 0th centuries; important in the regional vernacular architecture of the St. John valley; 1-4, agricultural landscape in the "back settlements" or concessions, near St. Agatha community; arpent system of land division visible here as in other slides elsewhere; barn is a frame Acadian barn with gambrel roof; 5-20, the Herman Deprey potato house; the structure features a concrete fire wall; located adjacent to Bangor and Aroostook Railroad line; potatoes are brought here from the fields and stored until shipped via rail to the market; the potato house (a kind of twolevel barn) has thickly insulated walls and is very dark; it is partly built into the side of the hill to provide access for loading the potato house from the top down.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C016 Potato houses and scenes, St. Agatha, Maine
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c016
20 35mm color slides
Log missing
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C017 Phyllis Perreault farm, Wallagrass, Maine; Maison Alexis Cyr, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c017
20 35mm color slides
The St. Basile, NB, log buildings are important; 1-4, Phyllis Perreault farm, Wallagrass on Me. 11, continued: frame shingled house, "La Vielle Maison," ca. 1885; dwelling is the form of a familiar British Isles dwelling with different functional spaces; here, there is a small room for firewood and the garage is at the far gable end; 2, Phyllis Perreault and her father, Roland Perreault * SEND TWO COURTESY PRINTS OF THIS SLIDE TO Mr. Roland Perreault, RR 1, Box 1266, Soldier Pond, Maine 04781; 5, St. John River from the New Brunswick side, north of St. Basile at at Baker Brook; 6-10, historic site at the St. Basile cemetery, on the St. John River directly across from St. David (Madawaska), Me.: c. 1800 Maison Alexis Cyr log house reconstructed at this site; 11—13, memorial chapel at the Alexis Cyr house site, built in 1960 to honor the Acadian settlers here; it is a modern variant of piece-surpiece en colombage construction; 14-17, details on the Maison Alexis Cyr: handwrought iron thumb latches, memorial plaque on the wall; 18-20, memorial chapel, continued: plaque on exterior wall, sign on exterior wall, view of St. John River and Maine from the site.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C018 St. Basille Pioneer's Memorial Chapel, houses, and landscape, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick; Farmstead in Riviere Verte, New Brunswick; Church, St. Leonard, New Brunswick, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c018
20 35mm color slides
1-2, treaty marker and cemetery at St. Basile pioneers' memorial chapel; 3-6, St. Basile catholic church, cemetery; 7-8, vernacular houses in St. Basile, NB; 10-16, St. John River and landscape across in Maine, from New Brunswick, near St. Basile; arpent land division system clearly seen in #13-16; 17-18, excellent example of an Acadian barn, south of St. Basile, NB; 19, connected farmstead in Riviere Verte (Green River), NB; 20, church in St. Leonard, NB.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C019 Churches, barns, and vernacular houses, St. Leonard, New Brunswick. Vernacular houses and buildings, Fort Kent, Maine, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c019
20 35mm color slides
1-2, church in St. Leonard, NB, continued; 3-4, Acadian farmstead, New Brunswick, s. of St. Leonard at Sainte-Anne; 5-7, New Brunswick vernacular houses; 8-9, NB landscape and farm (large barn); 10, NB highway n. of Grand Falls; 11-12, Grand Falls, NB (St. John River); 13, vernacular buildings in Grand Falls, NB; 14, farmstead near Hamlin, Maine on US 1; 15-20, vernacular houses and landscapes in Ft. Kent, Maine on US 1, moving into town from south.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C020 Buildings along U.S. 1, Fort Kent, Maine; Plourdes Store and landscape, Soldier Pond, Maine, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c020
20 35mm color slides
1-7, vernacular buildings along US 1 in Ft. Kent, continued; 8, painted truck, Ft. Kent college campus; 9, vernacular house in Ft. Kent; gothic gables, central hall house type; 10-11, Fort Kent, 1839 cedar log block house built for defense during boundary disputes; restored to some degree, this is a very fine National Landmark that is cared for by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation; 12-19, Plourdes Store and landscape, on Me. 11 s. of Ft. Kent; this is a rebuilt and altered piece-sur-piece Acadian cottage of the 19th century; 20, Acadian cottage across Me. 11 from Plourdes Store.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C021 Vernacular architecture and various scenes, Fort Kent, Patten, and Hampden, Maine, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_c021
5 35mm color slides
1, vernacular house on Me. 11 in Ft. Kent; 2, landscape near Soldier Pond, s. of Ft. Kent; 3, Mt. Katahdin, in Baxter State Park, south of our study area, from Me. 11; 4, connected vernacular farmstead on Me. 11 in Patten, Maine, with New England temple-form house type; 5, New England temple form house type, Hampden, Maine.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: LO-C001 Roadside crosses, Baker-Brook, New Brunswick, June 15, 1991
Photographer: Lisa Ornstein
Digital content available: afc1991029_lo_c001
20 35mm color slides
These images document roadside crosses located in Baker-Brook, New Brunswick. For further details, see MAP-LO-FO61591.A; [1-15, roadside cross located on Route 120 at the Baker/Brook/Clair townline]; 1-5, roadside cross: full-length shots; 7-8, roadside cross shrinebox: shrinebox; the lettering reads: Eternal Light; 9, detail of roadside cross: electrical wiring; 10, detail of roadside cross: transept ornament; 11-12, detail of roadside cross area: one of the two ornamental pillars which frame the cross; 13-14, roadside cross area showing proximity of cross to townline welcome sign.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: LO-C002 Roadside crosses, Baker-Brook, New Brunswick, June 15, 1991
Photographer: Lisa Ornstein
Digital content available: afc1991029_lo_c002
7 35mm color slides
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