Keywords: Pleasant Streets
Item 13698
Pleasant Street, Kennebunk, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Kennebunk Free Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Kennebunk Media: Contact Print from Glass negative
Item 55431
Pleasant Street, Lubec, ca. 1905, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Item 36550
11 Pleasant Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Allen Bailey and Allen Bailey Realty Co Use: Garage, public
Item 36572
58 Pleasant Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Hugh T O'conner Use: Dwelling - Three Family
Item 150358
Renovations to 127 Pleasant Street for John Calvin Stevens II, Portland, 1962-1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962–1972 Location: Portland Client: Thomas Stevens Delano Architect: John Calvin Stevens II
Item 151531
Cyrus Cole Memorial Universalist Church, South Portland, 1899-1906
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1899–1906 Location: South Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… Heights (Skunk Hill), went along what we call the Pleasant Hill Road to Chamberlain Road, along Chamberlain to the Black Point Road, thence across…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2
"… Lubec This arch near the corner of Commercial and Pleasant Streets welcomed visitors who arrived via the ferry wharf at the camera’s rear."
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
