Keywords: Mechanic Street
Item 111783
Maine Charitable Mechanic Association and Congress Street, Portland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 111861
Congress Street showing Maine Charitable Mechanic Association building, Portland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 62622
46 Mechanic Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stuart O. Symonds Use: Apartments
Item 62603
17 Mechanic Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Charles M. Cobb Use: Dwelling - Four Family
Item 151566
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
Item 150371
Plan for Mechanics Savings Bank Building, Auburn, 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Auburn Client: Mechanics Savings Bank Architect: George M. Coombs
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945
"… II Presque Isle Air Terminal Building on outer Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle Army Air Field."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2
"The Rumford Mechanics Institute, the largest building constructed by Chisholm on the business island, was Chisholm’s answer to a YMCA for the Town of…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
