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Item 4020

City Hall site plan, Portland, 1908

City Hall site plan, Portland, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 26036

Fort Knox plans, ca. 1842

Fort Knox plans, ca. 1842

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1842 Location: Prospect Media: Copy of negative

Item 100214

Alexander W. Longfellow site drawing, Portland, 1838

Alexander W. Longfellow site drawing, Portland, 1838

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1838-10-28 Location: Portland Media: Ink and pencil on paper

Tax Records

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Item 38570

451-461 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

451-461 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estate of Mary J.E. Clapp Use: Stores & Offices

Item 87293

Dwelling, Xivray Street, Portland, 1924

Dwelling, Xivray Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: G A Crosman and Sons Company Use: Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150162

MMN #109219

Proposed Memorial Building and Site, Bangor, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Bangor Client: unknown Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 151537

MMN #111863

Westbrook Junior College site plans, Portland, 1938-1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938–1950 Location: Portland Client: Westbrook Junior College Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Item 151693

MMN #116432

Portland City Hall site plan, Portland, 1908-1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908–1931 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Carrere & Hastings Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Stone house with clipped gables, 974 Sawyer Street, South Portland, ca. 1920

Sylvan Site: A Model Development

Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.

Exhibit

Peleg Wadsworth deed of land to Stephen Longfellow, Portland, 1827

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Researching Your Home

"… as 1850 the house was recognized as a historic site. Over the years many people have described the house and left a record of their experiences."

Exhibit

Raleigh Gilbert, Popham Colony, ca. 1607

Popham Colony

George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.

Site Pages

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Site Page

MMN #109495

Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884

"Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Architecture commission for…"

Site Page

235-237 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924

City of Portland Planning & Urban Development

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

John Martin barn plan, Bangor, 1867

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin barn plan, Bangor, 1867

"John Martin barn plan, Bangor, 1867 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (18223-1907), a…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Monument Square 1967

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Story

Spiros Droggitis: From Biddeford to Washington DC and back

Spiros Droggitis: From Biddeford to Washington DC and back
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A Greek family's impact: from the iconic Wonderbar Restaurant to Washington DC

Story

History of Forest Gardens

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Mary McLellan headstone from 1764, Portland, 1966

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.

Lesson Plan

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow miniature, ca. 1840

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.

Lesson Plan

Statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, ca. 1910

Longfellow Studies: An American Studies Approach to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was truly a man of his time and of his nation; this native of Portland, Maine and graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine became an American icon. Lines from his poems intersperse our daily speech and the characters of his long narrative poems have become part of American myth. Longfellow's fame was international; scholars, politicians, heads-of-state and everyday people read and memorized his poems. Our goal is to show that just as Longfellow reacted to and participated in his times, so his poetry participated in shaping and defining American culture and literature. The following unit plan introduces and demonstrates an American Studies approach to the life and work of Longfellow. Because the collaborative work that forms the basis for this unit was partially responsible for leading the two of us to complete the American & New England Studies Masters program at University of Southern Maine, we returned there for a working definition of "American Studies approach" as it applies to the grade level classroom. Joe Conforti, who was director at the time we both went through the program, offered some useful clarifying comments and explanation. He reminded us that such a focus provides a holistic approach to the life and work of an author. It sets a work of literature in a broad cultural and historical context as well as in the context of the poet's life. The aim of an American Studies approach is to "broaden the context of a work to illuminate the American past" (Conforti) for your students. We have found this approach to have multiple benefits at the classroom and research level. It brings the poems and the poet alive for students and connects with other curricular work, especially social studies. When linked with a Maine history unit, it helps to place Portland and Maine in an historical and cultural context. It also provides an inviting atmosphere for the in-depth study of the mechanics of Longfellow's poetry. What follows is a set of lesson plans that form a unit of study. The biographical "anchor" that we have used for this unit is an out-of-print biography An American Bard: The story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Ruth Langland Holberg, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, c1963. Permission has been requested to make this work available as a downloadable file off this web page, but in the meantime, used copies are readily and cheaply available from various vendors. The poem we have chosen to demonstrate our approach is "Paul Revere's Ride." The worksheets were developed by Judy Donahue, the explanatory essays researched and written by the two of us, and our sources are cited below. We have also included a list of helpful links. When possible we have included helpful material in text format, or have supplied site links. Our complete unit includes other Longfellow poems with the same approach, but in the interest of time and space, they are not included. Please feel free to contact us with questions and comments.