Between the Civil War and World War I, the Maine coast drew thousands of summer visitors ever year. By the 1880s, some of the more affluent visitors decided to build their own cottages. From 1885 to 1905, Scientific American Building Monthly published floor plans, photographs, and descriptions of hun¬dreds of homes, to inspire architects, builders, and clients. Fifty of those featured homes were in Maine, and historian Earle Shettleworth and architect Christopher Glass have tracked them down to share them with a contemporary audience.