Keywords: Portland Street
Item 81555
Portland Water District Casco Street Office, Portland, 1964
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1964 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 81550
Portland Water District Casco Street Office, ca. 1964
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1964 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 87315
121-125 York Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Street Sprinkling Company Use: Storage
Item 87318
Assessor's Record, 121-125 York Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Street Sprinkling Company Use: Unknown
Item 151587
State Street Congregational Church alterations, Portland, 1892-1893
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1892–1893
Location: Portland
Client: State Street Congregational Church
Architect: John Calvin Stevens
This record contains 7 images.
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
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
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.
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Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
Lesson Plan
Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland.
Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004.
Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.
