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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1881 | Nantucket's Coffin House restored | maritime, museum, summer | ||
| 1890 | Alice Baker returns to Deerfield to restore her ancestral home, Frary House. | summer | ||
| 1898 | Emily Tyson purchases the 1785 Hamilton House, the setting for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Tory Lover." | summer | ||
| 1902 | William Dean Howells purchases a summer home on Kittery Point, Maine | summer | ||
| 1902 | Edith Wharton designs "The Mount" in Lenox, Massachusetts | summer | ||
| 1928 | A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine | While summering in Bar Harbor, Dr. Abbe was fascinated by the ancient Native American tools found in nearby shell heaps. As he began collecting these artifacts, he realized the need for safe permanent storage. |