Keywords: Greek-Revival Commercial Architecture
Item 27880
106-118 Front Street, Bath, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Bath; Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 27913
Merchants' Row, Bath, ca. 1883
Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1883 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
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Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
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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.
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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas
"… was inspired by the classicism of the American Greek Revival style. Thomas was at his best when designing in the English Tudor style."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"Most of the Greek-Revival residences surrounding the downtown area were built in the two decades before the Civil War."
