Keywords: Portland Housing Authority
Item 100286
Franklin Towers, Portland, 1969
Contributed by: Portland Housing Authority through Maine Historical Society Date: 1969-09-02 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 100285
Franklin Towers and Anshe Sfard synagogue, Portland, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Herb Adams through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Portland Media: Postcard
Item 151078
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1942 Location: South Portland Client: Federal Public Housing Authority Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 151155
South Portland Housing Authority aided housing for the elderly, South Portland, 1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972 Location: South Portland Client: City of South Portland Architect: Wadsworth, Boston, Dimick, Mercer & Weatherill
Exhibit
Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation
Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Site Page
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools
"… Central High School, East New Portland, 1963New Portland Historical Society The original Central High School was located in East New Portland, but…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"3.Interview with Donald Googins by the author, 24 November 2009. 4.Queenie Seal’s diary, 1951."
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
