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Location of Portland in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The Western Promenade Historic District encompasses a late 19th-and early 20th-century neighborhood in the West End of Portland, Maine.This area of architecturally distinctive homes was home to three of the city's most prominent architects: Francis H. Fassett, John Calvin Stevens, and Frederick A. Tompson, and was Portland's most fashionable neighborhood in the late 19th century.
The Spring Street Historic District encompasses surviving elements of the 19th-century commercial and surviving residential areas of Portland, Maine.Encompassing a portion of the city's Arts District and an eastern portion of its West End, the district has a significant concentration of residential and commercial buildings that survived the city's devastating 1866 fire.
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad transports passengers on a scenic tour of the Eastern Promenade. The Eastern Promenade (Eastern Prom) is a historic promenade, 68.2-acre (27.6 ha) public park and recreation area in Portland, Maine. Construction of the Promenade began in 1836 and continued periodically until 1934.
The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument is a public monument in Portland, Maine's West End. Located on the corner of State and Congress Street, it honors poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was born in Portland in 1807. The intersection built around the monument is known as Longfellow Square.
Maine Wharf is a historic wharf in Portland, Maine. It is located on Commercial Street , between Franklin Street and Pearl Street, [ 1 ] on the edge of the Fore River . On the waterfront side, it is situated between Maine State Pier (to the north) and Custom House Wharf (to the south).
A major rockslide prompted two highways to be shut down in Colorado over the weekend and witnesses captured the frightening moment on video. Highways 96 and 165 from Wetmore to Westcliffe in ...
The Gothic House, also known as the John J. Brown House, is a historic house at 387 Spring Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1845, it is one of Maine's finest and earliest known examples of Gothic Revival architecture. Although virtually unaltered, it was moved down Spring Street in 1971 to avoid demolition.