Keywords: Adams Street
Item 24633
W. Adams & Son Store, Limerick, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Limerick Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 10470
Columbia Street to Hammond Street, Bangor, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1907 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 32036
11 Adams Place, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Lydia J. Adams Estate Style: Greek Revival Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 32322
Owner in 1924: Lydia J. Adams Estate Style: Greek Revival Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 150923
House for Mr. F.F. Adams, 59 Brentwood St., Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland Client: F. F. Adams Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Item 151712
Leighton Block, Portland, 1915-1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915–1917 Location: Portland Client: Adam P. Leighton Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3
"… tower of the Free Will Baptist Church on Casco Street and Commodore Edward Preble’s house at Congress and Preble Streets prior to its expansion…"
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3
"… early outdoor photographs, as reflected in street scenes in South Paris and Athens. A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
Lesson Plan
Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland.
Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004.
Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.
