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The Time and Temperature Building, originally known as the Chapman Building, and officially 477 Congress Street, is a 14-story office building on Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. The building, which replaced Preble House (a successor to the mansion of Commodore Edward Preble ), [ 3 ] is named after a large three-sided four-element ...
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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.
One City Center is an office building located in Monument Square, Portland, Maine. The building serves as the northern New England offices for Bank of America, and a Bank of America logo is featured at the building's highest point. It consists of 13 floors and features a five-story atrium with a full-service food court inside the building.
The city rebuilt, and again became a major shipping center and Maine's leading port and economic center. Commercial Street was created by fill in the 1850s, and Middle and Exchanges Street area developed as a major commercial district. In 1866, a major fire swept through the area, bringing on a wave of new construction. [18]
The Rackleff Building is an historic commercial building at 129–131 Middle Street in the Old Port commercial district of Portland, Maine.Built in 1867, to a design by architect George M. Harding, it is, along with the adjacent Woodman Building and Thompson Block (both also Harding buildings), part of the finest concentration of mid-19th-century commercial architecture in the city. [2]
Built in 1923, replacing the Portland Business College building, [2] the seven-story structure held the offices of the Portland Press Herald from 1923 until May 2010. [3] [4] An addition was added to the north side of the building in 1948 [5] after the former Davis Block at 390 Congress Street was demolished. In the 1940s, News of the Day ...
Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842-1932), philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader; lived in Portland her entire life; Lois Galgay Reckitt (born 1944), executive director of Family Crisis Services, Portland, Maine; Frederick L. Small (1866–1918), stockbroker; convicted and hanged by the state of New Hampshire for the murder of his wife