Keywords: Cumberland House Hotel
Item 20585
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 33661
Checkley House Hotel, Scarborough, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1938 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
Item 58082
Assessor's Record, 430 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Congress Square Hotel Company Use: Garage
Item 68566
Cushing's Island Hotel & Realty Company property, Cushing's Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cushing's Island Hotel & Realty Company Use: Cottage
Item 111316
The Checkley House, Scarborough, 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Scarborough Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 110045
Proposed alterations to the Atlantic House at Scarborough Beach, Scarborough, ca. 1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1911 Location: Scarborough Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Poland Spring Preservation Society
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930
"… in 1858 to make way for the Preble House hotel. The new four-story building had a Mansard roof, which originally included decorative windows, stone…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
