Keywords: Chestnut Street
Item 15476
Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: circa 1876 Location: Cambridge, MA Media: Wood
Item 74944
Frederick Archer recital poster, Portland, 1887
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 36784
25 Chestnut Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Ida B McAfee Use: Garage
Item 36803
54 Chestnut Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Aram Serunian Use: Garage & Storage
Item 151596
Chestnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Portland, 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 150954
Masonic Building Cor. Congress & Chestnut Sts., Portland, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1909
Location: Portland
Client: unknown
Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
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Exhibit
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
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
Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas
"… are Deering High School (1922-23) and the Chestnut Street Methodist Church Community House (1924), both in Portland."
