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Victoria Mansion, also known as the Morse-Libby House or Morse-Libby Mansion, is a historic house in downtown Portland, Maine, United States. [1] The brownstone exterior, elaborate interior design, opulent furnishings and early technological conveniences provide a detailed portrait of lavish living in nineteenth-century America.
Libbytown is a neighborhood in Portland, Maine, United States. [1] One of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, [2] it is located between the Stroudwater, Rosemont, Oakdale, and Parkside neighborhoods, and is separated from the city of South Portland by the Fore River. [3] It extends to the intersection of Stevens Avenue and Congress Street. [1]
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 State Theatre was designed by Portland architect Herbert W. Rhodes, originally containing 2,300 seats. [3] The building it is located in replaced the Charles Libby Mansion. [4] The theatre was designed to be a creative combination of Spanish, Italian, and Art Deco aesthetics with elaborate works of art.
Harrison Jewell Libby (1811–1891) was the eldest child of Rev. Elisa Libby and Jane Jewell. After moving from Limerick, Maine, to Portland, the state's largest city, he began working in the dry-goods business. In partnership with John Williams, of Boston, in 1844 he formed textile firm H. J. Libby & Company. [2]
Beyond these more famous influences, Cobb also had a strong desire to link the Payson building to Maine. He remarked, “The Portland Museum is a regional museum in a region that is itself a museum, so I believe I had an obligation to connect the new building to the city and the region.” [7] To express the museum’s connection to Maine, Cobb ...
Tompson was born in Portland in 1857, to John A. Tompson and Mary Elizabeth Libby. [1] In 1876, after graduating Portland High School, [1] he entered the office of Francis H. Fassett, Maine's most prominent architect at the time.
The Thomas Brackett Reed House is a historic brick duplex house at 30–32 Deering Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1876, the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975 for its association with Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), Speaker of the House of Representatives (1889–1891 and 1895–1899). Reed owned and occupied ...