Maine Memory Network

Howard House, Bangor, 1869

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1869 Location: Bangor Media: Lantern slide

Lizzie Howard to Gen. O.O. Howard, Leeds, 1865

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1865 Location: Leeds Media: Ink on paper

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Assessor's Record, 189 Howard Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Florence A Howard Use: Garage

10 Howard Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Gertrude Epstein Use: Dwelling - Two family

State Street Church parsonage, Portland, 1927-1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1928 Location: Portland Client: State Street Church Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

House at 25 Craigie Street for John Howard Stevens, Portland, 1904-1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904–1949 Location: Portland; Portland Client: John Howard Stevens Architect: John Howard Stevens; John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Married to Kate Howard Fisher for 60 years, he passed away on June 22, 1938. Walter G. Webber opened a drugstore at the foot of Elm Street in 1875."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Eddie's Market

"He started his career at age twenty working for Howard Michaud as a meat cutter and clerk. Michaud’s store was on the corner of State and Exchange…"

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars