Maine Memory Network

The Kapitoleum, New Sweden, ca. 1930

Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print

New Sweden Baptist Church, ca. 1938

Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print

16 New Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Blanche E. Wentworth Use: Dwelling - Two family

22 New Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Roseanna Phillips Use: Dwelling - Single family

New York Specialty Co., Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Client: New York Specialty Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens; New York Specialty Co.

Opportunity Farm lodge, New Gloucester, 1983

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983 Location: New Gloucester Client: Opportunity Farm Association Architect: Ward Cabin Co.
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Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan

Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.

Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"The building was erected in East New Portland on the site known as the Chas. Holbrook. Consolidation of the two New Portland high schools had been…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"… loss, the town quickly decided to build a new Central High school, in the North Village of New Portland."

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII

Longfellow Studies: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" opens up the issue of the earliest history of the Jews in America, and the significant roles they played as businessmen and later benefactors to the greater community. The history of the building itself is notable in terms of early American architecture, its having been designed, apparently gratis, by the most noted architect of the day. Furthermore, the poem traces the history of Newport as kind of a microcosm of New England commercial cities before the industrialization boom. For almost any age student the poem could be used to open up interest in local cemeteries, which are almost always a wealth of curiousities and history. Longfellow and his friends enjoyed exploring cemeteries, and today our little local cemeteries can be used to teach little local histories and parts of the big picture as well. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the Jewish cemetery in Newport, RI on July 9, 1852. His popular poem about the site, published two years later, was certainly a sympathetic portrayal of the place and its people. In addition to Victorian romantic musings about the "Hebrews in their graves," Longfellow includes in this poem references to the historic persecution of the Jews, as well as very specific references to their religious practices. Since the cemetery and the nearby synagogue were restored and protected with an infusion of funding just a couple years after Longfellow's visit, and later a congregation again assembled, his gloomy predictions about the place proved false (never mind the conclusion of the poem, "And the dead nations never rise again!"). Nevertheless, it is a fascinating poem, and an interesting window into the history of the nation's oldest extant synagogue.