Keywords: building
Item 14014
Acme Dunham Building in Bangor, 1968
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1968 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 81390
Baxter Building, Portland, ca. 1913
Contributed by: Greater Portland Landmarks Date: circa 1913 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 86129
Office, Browns Wharf Office Building, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: F E Irwin Lumber Company Use: Office
Item 86133
Lumber Storage and Mill, Brown Wharf Mill Building, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: F B Irvin Lumber Company Use: Lumber Storage and Mill
Item 150750
Block for Norway Building Association, Norway, 1881
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1881 Location: Norway Client: Norway Building Association Architect: George M. Coombs
Item 151297
Burnham & Morrill annex building, Portland, 1945-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1945–1946
Location: Portland
Client: Burnham & Morrill Co.
Architect: John Howard Stevens; John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
This record contains 11 images.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan
Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.
Exhibit
Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape
The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5
"… BUILDINGS History of Buildings By Piscataquis Community Middle School 8th Grade Students Included in the next 5 pages: 1) Odd Fellows Hall, Bank…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5
"The building was built with bricks and had a slate roof. Slate was used a lot because of the slate quarry in Monson."
Story
Biddeford City Hall: an in-depth tour of this iconic building
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Visual tour and unique insights of Biddeford’s historical landmark
Story
Passing the time during the Pandemic
by Don V
Building a strip canoe
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
Lesson Plan
Portland History: The Portland Observatory and Thermometrics
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
Thermometrics is a term coined by Moody to describe his weather recording activities. Included here are some cross-curricula lesson plans and activities for students to use their knowledge in science, math and social studies while acting as weather forecasters. Check out the web-sites listed in this section for information on building your own barometer and anemometer.
