Keywords: Maine House
Item 28486
Bath Opera House advertisement for May 14, 1934
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1934-05-14 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper
Item 5416
Doorway, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1902 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 86343
Fish House, Custom House Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Custom House Wharf Use: Fish House
Item 86345
Freight House, Custom House Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Custom House Wharf Use: Freight House
Item 150861
Blaine House existing vegetation, Augusta, 1989
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1989 Location: Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: Blaine House Restoration Committee
Item 150860
Blaine House existing plantings, Augusta, 1987-1988
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–1988 Location: Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: State of Maine Department of Transportation
Exhibit
Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society
"… (because of the elaborate enclosures used to house the more fragile formats), these three earliest mediums, starting with the daguerreotype, peaked…"
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront
"… at the House Restaurant, visited the White House, and met with members of the Maine Congressional delegation. Captain Berlin on the S.S."
Story
Redlining and the Jewish Communities in Maine
by David Freidenreich
Federal and state policies created unfair housing practices against immigrants, like redlining.
Story
Timberland Legacy, My Family's History in Maine
by Lisa Huber
A long connection to the forestry industry and conservation movement in Maine
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
