Bar Harbor gift shop with moose on roof. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Bar Harbor gift shop with moose on roof. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Bar Harbor. About 5,000 people live in Bar Harbor but its population grows in the summer months as it is primarily a summer retreat. It was first settled by whites in 1796 but did not become well known until the Hudson River School of artists chose it as a favourite site in the 1840s. Their paintings inspired hotel builders and by the 1870s Bar Harbor was a favourite coastal retreat for the very wealthy from New York. Once the railway reached here in 1880 it began to rival Newport Rhode Island. This was the period known as the Gilded Age and the Robber Barons were quick to build summer mansions in Bar Harbor. They tried to outdo each other with grand houses and landscaped gardens. The Vanderbilts, Fords, Carnegies, Astors, Rockefellers and Morgans had summer houses here in the late 19th century. Nelson Rockefeller, who went into politics and was Vice President to Gerald Ford, was born here. Rockefellers still own a summer house in Bar Harbor as do other notables such as actress Susan Sarandon and TV presenter Martha Stewart. By the early 20th century Bar Harbor was declining in popularity and Newport Rhode Island became the favoured spot of the super wealthy. Some of the houses from Millionaires Row in Bar Harbor are now hotels. By the 1880s Bar Harbor had 30 hotels, and for the time it had the largest hotel in America. The splendid autumn leaves right down to the waterfront make Bar Harbor an especially pretty place. Whilst in Bar Harbor we hope to visit the George Dorr Natural History Museum on the campus of the College of the Atlantic at 105 Eden Street. This tertiary college was only established in 1969 and is a small private college which mainly teaches ecology and environmental science. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-10-11 03:59:10 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-S950 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/125) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.7 |