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By the 1820s, the area was Portland's second seaport via the Back Cove's ship channel. Much of the debris from the Portland fire of 1866 was deposited into Back Cove, significantly increasing the size of East Bayside. Maps produced around 1900 show an extension of the shoreline out to Marginal Way.
The building (left) in the Portland skyline, looking east in 2023. The Casco is an eighteen-story apartment building at 201 Federal Street in Portland, Maine, United States.. Upon its completion in 2023, it inherited the titles of the tallest building in Portland as well as the tallest residential building in Maine from nearby Franklin Towers, on Cumberland Avenue, which held the record since ...
MaineHealth Maine Medical Center Portland (MMCP), commonly contracted to Maine Med, is a 929-licensed-bed [1] teaching hospital in Portland, Maine, United States. Affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine, it is located in the Western Promenade neighborhood. It has a staff of over 9,500. [2]
Spring Harbor Hospital came into being in 1999 when Maine Medical Center purchased a for-profit psychiatric hospital, Jackson Brook Institute. [1] [2] In 2007, a donation from philanthropist Al Glickman created the Glickman Family Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, [3] which helps to support programs for families at Spring Harbor.
The Portland area has eleven professional golf courses, 124 tennis courts, and 95 playgrounds. There are also over 100 mi (160 km) of nature trails. Portland hosts the Maine Marathon each October. Bayside Bowl was expanded in 2017 to 20 lanes, including a rooftop deck. It hosted the 2017 PBA League and Elias Cup.
The Portland–Lewiston–South Portland Combined Statistical Area is made up of four counties in Maine. The statistical area includes two metropolitan statistical areas . [ 5 ] As of the 2000 Census, the CSA had a population of 591,361 (a July 1, 2009, estimate placed the population at 623,365).
The Old Port district is located on the southeastern side of the Portland peninsula, overlooking the wide mouth of the Fore River and the Port of Portland.It is bounded on the east by Franklin Street (U.S. Route 1A), with Commercial Street running southwest along the waterfront, and 19th-century buildings on its north side as far west as Maple Street.
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.