Keywords: 85
Item 85
Portland Company engine, Portland, 1868
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868-05-19 Location: Portland Media: watercolor on paper
Item 81793
85-87 Main Street, Bridgton, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Bridgton Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Bridgton Media: Ink on paper, photograph
Item 32570
85 Bedford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Edward D Noyes Style: Federal Use: Stables & Garage
Item 86562
85 Winter Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Heirs of Catherine B Hall Use: Dwelling
Item 151494
Barn at Deering Mansion on Bedford Street, Portland, 1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 150451
House for Mrs. Chard, Lewiston, 1896
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Lewiston Client: Cora G. Chard Architect: Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
Sylvan Site: A Model Development
Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin Snow casket at grave, Bangor, 1889
"… and shopkeeper, included the illustration on page 85 of a scrapbook he wrote and illustrated starting in 1888, while he was away from home working…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864
"Martin's illustration is on page 85 of his 1864 "Scrap & Sketch Book." He related some of Emery's history and the events in Bangor during the war --…"
