From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Photographs Collection
Abraham Somes House
A black and white 4 1/2 x 3 photograph of the back of Mason Cobb's house on the corner of Oak Hill Road and Rt. 102. 1964 Historic Abraham Somes III house in Somesville (now owned by Marion and Richard Cobb) . White clapboard with dark shutters. Large barn/garage on back. Covered porch between house and barn.Several trees on front lawn one in back of house. Evergreens in back. White picket fence surrounds house. Marked on back, “back of Garm’s house, note fence.” This house was also owned by Abraham Somes III son, Thaddeus, grandfather of Virginia Somes Sanderson. Gram’s is Emilie Clarissa Meynell Somes, her grandmother. W.H. Ballard Photographer, Southwest Harbor, stamped on back.
