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Southern end of Grafton Street, close to Stephens Green, in 2015. In 2008, Grafton Street was the fifth most expensive main shopping street in the world, with rental pricing of €5,621/m 2 /year, [21] and the thirteenth most expensive main shopping street in the world in 2016 at rental pricing of a much lower region of €3,300/m 2 /year. [22 ...
A shopping street [1] or shopping district [2] is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of retail establishments (such as stores, boutiques, restaurants, and shopping complexes). Such areas may be pedestrian-oriented, [3] with street-side buildings and wide sidewalks.
According to the 2020 United States census, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1,372,247 inhabitants, and the 12th smallest by land area, spanning 30,842.92 square miles (79,882.8 km 2). [1] Maine is divided into 16 counties and contains 482 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and plantations. [2]
The Congregational Church (38 Main) was built in 1895 to a design by Will S. Aldrich, is a Shingle style wood-frame structure built on the site of an earlier church. The former B. H. Bartol library stands at 55 Main Street, and was built with funding assistance from Andrew Carnegie; it has, like most of the houses, been converted to retail use. [2]
Grafton, the southernmost township, was the only township to achieve incorporation. The first European settler was James Brown in 1834. He built a sawmill in 1838, and a few of the men he hired to cut logs and mill lumber built homes along what is now Maine State Route 26 above Grafton Notch State Park. A few raised some livestock, hay, oats ...
I recently went behind the scenes at The Holy Donut, one of the most famous doughnut shops in Maine. I tried four of their most popular flavors, including a savory and a seasonal blueberry ...
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 National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
Deering Center is a neighborhood that runs from Brighton Avenue to Forest Avenue to Walton Street, then past Evergreen Cemetery, near Wayside Street on Ludlow Street. Formerly known as the town of Deering (named for Captain James Deering, horse farmer and early resident of Deering), which separated from Westbrook in 1871.