Keywords: Tenement Block
Item 26640
The Levensaler Block, Thomaston, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 23260
Old view of Hill Street, Biddeford, 1916
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1916 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 99157
Assessor's Record, 33 Poland Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Charles Fielding Use: Garage, private
Item 65229
73-75 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: David Finkelman Use: Apartments
Item 150846
Properties for Mr. J. T. Small, Lewiston, 1884
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1884
Location: Lewiston; unknown
Client: J. T. Small
Architect: George M. Coombs
This record contains 14 images.
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford
"… notified the residents of the nearby Nile Block tenement. His prompt alert saved the lives of all the residents in that building and helped to…"
