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Portland City Hall is the center of city government in Portland, Maine. The fourth city hall built in Portland, it is located at 389 Congress Street , on a prominent rise, anchoring a cluster of civic buildings at the eastern end of Portland's downtown.
The Old City Hall of Portland, Maine, was located in what was then known as Market Square or Haymarket Square (Monument Square today) between 1833 and 1888, when it was demolished. In 1862, it was replaced by an earlier version of the City Hall located today on Congress Street , a short distance northeast of the original location.
1909 - City Hall re-built. [1] 1910 Memorial statue of Thomas Brackett Reed unveiled. [39] Population: 58,571. [3] 1911 L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum dedicated. [40] Portland Terminal Company formed. 1912 Kotzschmar Memorial Organ installed in City Hall's Merrill Auditorium. Eastern Promenade laid out according to design by Olmsted ...
The History of Portland, Maine, begins when Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Məkíhkanək meaning "At the fish hook" in Penobscot [1] [2] and Machigonne (meaning "Great Neck") [3] in Algonquian. The peninsula and surrounding areas were home to members of the Algonquian-speaking Aucocisco branch of the Eastern Abenaki ...
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County.Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. [4]
In 1833, the structure was modified to serve as Portland's first city hall. [10] [11] In 1862, it was replaced by a new city hall, located on Congress Street at the head of Exchange Street. [12] The old city hall was demolished in 1888 and replaced by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, at which time Market Square was renamed Monument Square. [13]
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 ...
In March 2009, the Portland City Council designated much of the inner portion of Congress Street a historic district. [1] [2] The western section of the street includes the city's Arts District. The street was formerly known as both Country Road and Back Street. [3] West of downtown Portland, the street is known colloquially as Outer Congress ...