Keywords: Urban Fires
Item 35624
View of Portland after the great fire, 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-06 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, lithograph
Item 1215
Federal Street, looking toward Congress Street, Portland, ca. 1882
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1882 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 151479
Barzilai/Lindsey residence floor plan, New York, NY, 1995-2015
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1995–2015 Location: New York Clients: Yosi Barzilai; Grant Lindsey Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect
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.
Exhibit
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Bangor began to experience urban sprawl with the opening of its first malls. These malls gave Bangor citizens up-to-date shopping facilities with…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School
"… have now all been torn down as part of an urban renewal project in the 1960's.) However, education was very important to Bill Cohen's family."
Story
Biddeford and Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame Award recipient
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
With options to be a college French professor, became a lawyer, mayor, DA & District Court Judge
Story
Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask
Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork
