Keywords: Outhouses
Item 100176
Mold-blown sauce bottle, Portland, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Location: Portland Media: Glass
Item 100169
Transfer-print soup plate, Portland, ca. 1830
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Location: Portland Media: Pottery, porcelain, ceramic
Item 109849
Phillips Rural School Buiding & Outhouse, Phillips, 1897
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Phillips Client: Town of Phillips Architect: Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects
Exhibit
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy
"What is a privy? Privies or outhouses were bathrooms and did not have running water. Privies were usually built outside or in a connecting building…"
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
Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5
"… Memories Out in the fields there were no outhouses. If the workers had to use the bathroom, they would put barrels around themselves."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3
"My parents used an outhouse in Vietnam. When my mother and father were young, their houses were made of wood and had a thatched roof."
Story
Seawolf Outhouse Robbery
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25
How necessity creates invention, and the moving of an outhouse in Vietnam.
