From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
The Green, Bar Harbor, Me. 542 10-3-11-5]
Bar Harbor contains the lush Village Green in its historic core. During the city's Gilded Age, the short-lived Grand Central Hotel occupied this corner of Main and Mount Desert streets, but changing times led to the hotel's demolition and the land's rebirth as public space in 1899. For a number of years the bandstand was the green's only amenity, but a visit by President William Howard Taft and his subsequent speech from the site in 1910 spurred a desire for further development. In the 1920s, Beatrix Farrand, a nationally renowned landscape architect whose projects include the Rose Garden at the White House, designed the pathways, the rebuilding of the bandstand in a new location, and the landscaping arrangements seen today. "The Green, Bar Harbor, Me. 542 10-3-11-5]" Street Scene, Park, Fire Hydrant, Clock, Car, Buildings, Park Benches, Dog, Trees "Looks much the same today." --Willie Granston, 2011
