Keywords: Evergreen Cemetery
Item 10866
Evergreen Cemetery, Houlton, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 23335
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, 1869
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 111544
Thaxter house on Cushing Island, Portland, ca. 1896
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Location: Portland Client: Sidney Warren Thaxter Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 116360
S. W. Thaxter house, Portland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Client: S. W. Thaxter Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Exhibit
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 Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson
"… on Munjoy Hill (1897-98), the Wilde Chapel in Evergreen Cemetery (1902), the Castle in Deering Oaks (1894), the Armory on Milk Street (1895), the…"
