Keywords: Scales Building
Item 30923
Scales Buildings, Guilford, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
Item 30927
Aerial View of Guilford Looking East, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
Item 37441
550-566 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co. Use: Track Scales
Item 86736
Office Scale House, Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Wharf Proprietors Use: Office Scale House
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5
"It was a hardware store on the first floor and the First National Bank on the second floor. John Scales & Sons became the firm name on January 20…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5
"… next 5 pages: 1) Odd Fellows Hall, Bank Square 2) Scales Building, Guilford Fire Station 3) Guilford High School, Braeburn Hotel, Low's Covered…"
Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
