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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. [2] [3]
Mayo Street Arts is a community arts and performance venue in the East Bayside neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It was founded in 2010 by Blainor McGough [1] after leasing the building which was formerly St. Ansgar Church. [2] Mayo Street Arts' second executive director, Ian Bannon, succeeded McGough in May 2020 following McGough's resignation. [3]
Some churches in Portland have offered Blue Christmas services. [9] The Winter Market has hosted a Christmas in July event at the Goat Blocks. [10] Santaland, Macy's, 2008. Santaland was a feature of the Meier & Frank (later Macy's) store in downtown Portland's Meier & Frank Building for over forty years, [11] starting in the 1950s.
The Portland Museum of Art in the Arts District of Portland. The project to integrate the three buildings began in the fall of 2000 and was completed in October 2002. The McLellan House and L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries have an emphasis on 19th-century American art, and the Payson Building houses European and American works from the 20th ...
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 Hill Arts or St. Lawrence Arts Center is a performing arts center and community space at 76 Congress Street in the Munjoy Hill district of Portland, Maine. It is located in the former parish hall of the former St. Lawrence Church, a historic Romanesque church that was built in 1897. In 2008, due to severe deterioration, the sanctuary of the ...
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The Portland Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour of Portland, Maine. Established in 2007, [1] its 2-mile (3.2 km) course passes through the city's oldest and most historic areas, including those related to its African American population, and features thirteen points of interest. Most of the stops are in the Old Port and Arts District.