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The Arts District is a section of downtown Portland, Maine’s designated in 1995 as to promote the cultural community and creative economy of the city. [1] It covers a large part of upper Congress Street towards the West End and spans Congress Street toward the East ending at Portland City Hall and its Merrill Auditorium concert hall.
Portland High School, whose original building that is the school's middle wing was built in 1863, and Baxter Academy, a charter high school with a STEM curriculum, are both located in the neighborhood, as is Merrill Auditorium.
Originally known as Portland City Hall Auditorium, it is located in the eastern section of Portland City Hall. The auditorium was built in 1912 and underwent a major rebuild and renovation in 1997. It features a large pipe organ, the Hermann Kotzschmar Memorial Organ , donated by Cyrus Curtis and built by the Austin Organ Company (Opus 323).
In 1963, then-manager and director Ralph Tully retired. Edith Francis, who had worked at the theater for seventeen years, took his place. In the coming years the State Theatre fell on hard times, which climaxed when Francis died after being hit by a car at a nearby intersection.
Separate from its observatory, 875 Michigan Avenue formerly had a restaurant space on its 95th floor and a cocktail lounge space on its 96th floor. The combined space on these floors was approximately 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2). [49] The original restaurant in this space was named "The 95th restaurant", which operated from the 1970s until 1993.
The City of Portland created the position of Municipal Organist in 1912. The position was maintained until 1981 when it was eliminated due to budget constraints. That same year a non-profit organization called Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ was formed in order to provide continued funding for a municipal organist (who would become an FOKO employee), as well as to fund maintenance and ...
After falling into disrepair in the 1980s and 1990s, the area is being revived as a destination for restaurant and nightlife near NoMa and H Street. While for many it is a specific building containing the gourmet food hall , it is in fact an area that today features restaurants, a small movie theater, an ice cream factory and new luxury ...
Having previously given the restaurant zero stars out of four, The New York Times critic Pete Wells praised Mar's ability to transform The Beatrice Inn into "one of the most celebratory restaurants in the city" and awarded it two stars, meaning "very good". [11] In December 2016, Thrillist named Mar "NYC Chef of the Year for 2016". [12]