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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 ...
Map of Maine's counties. There are approximately 1,600 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maine. Each of the state's 16 counties has more than forty listings on the National Register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025.
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.
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.
Lincoln Park is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) urban park in downtown Portland, Maine.Created as Phoenix Square in 1866, following that year’s Great Fire, which burned down most of the buildings of Portland, it was renamed on January 24, 1867, in honor of former president Abraham Lincoln. [2]
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The rowhouse concept was introduced to Portland by John Neal, who is better remembered as a writer and critic, but was also an architect. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1835, he made plans to build a row of eight connected homes on nearby State Street, but reduced the project to only two units after his investors backed out and formed the Ann Street Company ...
Area [6] [8] Map Androscoggin County: 001: Auburn: 1854: From parts of Cumberland County, Kennebec County, and Lincoln County: The Androscoggin Native American tribe. 113,765: 497 sq mi (1,287 km 2) Aroostook County: 003: Houlton: 1839: From parts of Penobscot County, and Washington County: A Mi'kmaq word meaning beautiful river. 67,351: 6,829 ...