Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial, Portland, ca. 1910

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Architecture commission for Portland Society of Art at High Street in Portland, ME, 1909–1965. The commission is associated with John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects. This item is part of the Stevens Architects drawings and records collection.

Other addresses include Spring Street in Portland, ME.

The Portland Museum of Art, or PMA, was founded as the Portland Society of Art in 1882. In 1908 Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat bequeathed her three-story mansion, now known as the McLellan House, and sufficient funds to create a gallery in memory of her late husband, Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, who was a U.S. Representative. Noted New England architect John Calvin Stevens designed the L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries, which opened to the public in 1911.

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