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The Western Promenade is a historic promenade, an 18.1-acre (7.3 ha) public park and recreation area in the West End neighborhood of Portland, Maine.Developed between 1836 and the early 20th century, it is one Portland's oldest preserved spaces, with landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers, who included it in their master plan for the city's parks.
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.
Roughly Western Promenade from Maine Medical Center to Valley St. 96: Western Promenade Historic District: Western Promenade Historic District: February 16, 1984 : Roughly bounded by Western Promenade and Bramhall, Brackett, Emery, and Danforth Sts.
Five city parks are located in the neighborhood, [2] including Clark Street Park, Harbor View Park, Tate-Tyng Playground and McIntyre Park, and the Western Promenade with a view of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. [11] The Western Cemetery, Portland's primary cemetery from 1829 to 1852, is located in the neighborhood.
Bramhall was a mansion in the Bramhall neighborhood of Portland, Maine, United States.Completed in 1858, it was owned by John Bundy Brown, an industrialist. [1] The mansion, which was designed by New York City architect Charles A. Alexander, [1] stood behind today's 147–163 Western Promenade, [2] near which he also built homes for his children. [3]
Nov. 8—AUBURN — Police raided a "drug house" Tuesday morning on Western Promenade, arresting a half-dozen people, seizing a variety of narcotics and plucking three suspects from inside a wall.
The Leighton House is located in Portland's West End, near the northern end of the Western Promenade, a public park. It is set overlooking the park on the east side, between West and Pine Streets. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick building, with a dormered hip roof with bracketed eaves. The front facade is three bays wide, with an asymmetrical ...
Construction of the Promenade began in 1836 and continued periodically until 1934. The 1.5-mile (2.4 km) park was designed by the Olmsted Brothers design firm and experienced its greatest expansion from the 1880s to the 1910s. The Promenade rings around the Munjoy Hill neighborhood and occupies the farthest eastern portion of Portland's peninsula.