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Congress Street is the main street in Portland, Maine. Around 5.77 miles (9.29 km) long, it stretches from County Road, Portland's southwestern border with Westbrook , through a number of neighborhoods, before ending overlooking the Eastern Promenade on Munjoy Hill .
The Asa Hanson Block is a historic commercial building at 548-550 Congress Street in Downtown Portland, Maine. It was built in 1889 to a design by local architect Francis Fassett in partnership with Frederick A. Tompson , and is one of a small number of surviving commercial designs by Fassett in the city.
Portland's Arts District is based around Congress Street in downtown Portland. The District includes the Portland Museum of Art, the Maine College of Art (MECA) and the State Theatre. It is a mixed-use neighborhood with both apartments and commercial establishments. [1]
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The building was designed by John Calvin Stevens, then already a well-known Portland architect, and was built in 1883. John B. Brown, in whose honor it is named, founded the Portland Sugar Company in 1855, and in 1868 built the Falmouth Hotel , on Middle Street , which was a center of the city's social activities for half a century.
The Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building is located in Portland's Arts District at the upper end of Congress Street. It occupies the middle portion of a city block on the south side of Congress Street, between Oak and Brown Streets. It is a five-story structure, with a steel frame and brick walls clad in limestone-colored terra cotta.
Built in 1923, replacing the Portland Business College building, [2] the seven-story structure held the offices of the Portland Press Herald from 1923 until May 2010. [3] [4] An addition was added to the north side of the building in 1948 [5] after the former Davis Block at 390 Congress Street was demolished. In the 1940s, News of the Day ...
The Time and Temperature Building, originally known as the Chapman Building, and officially 477 Congress Street, is a 14-story office building on Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. The building, which replaced Preble House (a successor to the mansion of Commodore Edward Preble ), [ 3 ] is named after a large three-sided four-element ...