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Item 4173
Title: Plan of Portland, 1866
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1866
Location: Portland
Media: paper
Item 31299
Title: Central Street, Kirstein Block, Bangor, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Bangor Museum and Center for History
Date: circa 1935
Location: Bangor
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 10687
Title: Stone house with hip roof, 975 Sawyer Street, South Portland, c. 1920s
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Location: South Portland
Media: Photographic print, hand colored
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Sylvan Site: A Model Development
Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.