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Keywords: Colonial Revival architecture

Historical Items

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Item 22388

Dyer Library, Saco, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1914 Location: Saco Media: Glass negative

Item 36061

Corner View of 151 Broadway, Bangor, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Bangor Media: Glass Negative

Item 36133

Richard Webb house, Portland, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111961

House for Henry Lewis, Portland, 1913-1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1947 Location: Portland; Portland; Cape Elizabeth Client: Henry Lewis Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 116301

Study for house in Penn., ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 116345

Stevens architectural office, Portland, 1912-1978

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912–1978 Location: Portland Client: Stevens Architects Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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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.

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A Snapshot of Portland, 1924: The Taxman Cometh

In 1924, with Portland was on the verge of profound changes, the Tax Assessors Office undertook a project to document every building in the city -- with photographs and detailed information that provide a unique view into Portland's architecture, neighborhoods, industries, and businesses.

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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs

The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.

Site Pages

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Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… the twentieth century, the more formal Colonial Revival style came to dominate his work. Both the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival are…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Thomas favored the Shingle Style and the Colonial Revival for his houses and the Romanesque Revival for his public and commercial buildings."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… From the first humble log cabin beginnings, Colony architecture has come to reflect that of many other Maine communities founded in the late 19th…"