Keywords: Falmouth Hotel
Item 79439
Falmouth Hotel, Portland, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Greater Portland Landmarks Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: Postcard
Item 71688
Falmouth Hotel, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Portland Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 110082
Improvements at Falmouth Hotel stairs and cocktail lounge, Portland, 1920-1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920–1936 Location: Portland Client: Falmouth Hotel Architect: John P. Thomas; Poor & Thomas
Item 111969
J. B. Brown town houses on Neal St., Portland, 1906
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
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At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
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Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings
"Alexander’s 1868 rendering of Brown’s Falmouth Hotel served as the basis for a lithograph advertising the opening of Portland’s grandest nineteenth…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual
"In Portland, J.B. Brown's Falmouth Hotel reportedly practiced the same method. GALLERIES: Politics and Enforcement | Women Leaders and Temperance…"
Story
Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous
Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler
