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The museum was formed from the possessions within Perham's Maine Mineral Store, which was founded in 1919. Following the store's closure in 2009, Massachusetts-based philanthropists Lawrence Stifler and Mary McFadden purchased the Perham collection. The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum then opened in 2019. [3]
Cross Insurance Arena (formerly Cumberland County Civic Center) is a multi-purpose arena located in Portland, Maine. Built in 1977, at a cost of US$8 million, it is the home arena for the Maine Mariners of the ECHL. There are 6,206 permanent seats in the arena, and it seats up to 9,500 for concerts.
Parkview-GEM closed two money-losing stores in Indianapolis in October 1972. [11] Two months later. Parkview-GEM announced closings of stores in Hartford, Cincinnati, Omaha north, and Saugus in December 1972. [12] By May 1973, the company had closed 22 stores and sold off its 12 retail drug stores just since the previous November. [13]
The Portland Exposition Building, also known as The Expo, is a sports and convention center building complex in Portland, Maine. [1] Much expanded since the original building was constructed in 1914, the complex now includes five inter-connected buildings with 24,000 square feet of exhibition space and ten meeting rooms.
^ Florida's state gem, moonstone, was adopted to highlight Florida's role in the United States' Lunar program, which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [81] ^ Since 1983, Massachusetts has had 3 other official state rocks: State Historical Rock (Plymouth Rock), State Explorer Rock (Dighton Rock), and State Building and Monument Stone . In ...
Opened in 1997, the museum's collections date to the 1930s with the museum housed in a home built to display the rock and mineral collections of the museum founders. The ranch-style home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the first of its kind listed in Oregon. In 2015 the museum became a Smithsonian Affiliate museum.
The Portland Expo Center, officially the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, is a convention center located in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in the early 1920s as a livestock exhibition and auction facility, the center now hosts over 100 events a year, including green consumer shows, trade shows ...
Portland Stage Company is a professional LORT (League of Resident Theaters) theater company in the state of Maine. [1] Founded as the Profile Theatre in 1974 as a touring theater company, the company made Portland its permanent location in 1976. In 1982, it moved to its current home of 25A Forest Avenue in Portland, Maine. [2]