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Item 10602
Title: Grand Lake Hotel, Grand lake Stream, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1914
Location: Grand Lake Stream
Media: Postcard
Item 19734
Title: Eureka Hotel, Danforth, ca. 1911
Contributed by: East Grand School
Date: circa 1911
Location: Danforth
Media: Photograph
Item 19733
Title: The Renovated Eureka Hotel
Contributed by: East Grand School
Date: 1911
Location: Danforth
Media: Postcard
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Urban renewal, a post World War II impulse to clean up "slums" and other blights in urban areas, led both to renewed economic activities in some cities and towns in Maine and the loss of a number of grand buildings. The loss of the structures helped prompt historic preservation efforts in the state.