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Description
The Portland Breakwater Lighthouse in a photo taken in 1962 for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
The structure is cast iron with brick backing on a granite base. It has six iron Roman Corinthian engaged columns, and entablature with dentil cornice and acroteria.
It was built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1875. It was abandoned in 1943.
About This Item
- Title: Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, 1962
- Creation Date: 1962
- Subject Date: 1962
- Location: South Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 18 cm x 13 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 445, Box 1
- Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey photographs
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Architectural elements
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
- Lighthouses--Maine
- Portland Breakwater Lighthouse (Me.)--Photographs
- Portland Harbor (Me.)
- Surveys--Historic buildings--Views
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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