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Keywords: Sylvan Site (Portland, Me.)

Historical Items

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Item 10687

Stone house with hip roof, 975 Sawyer Street, South Portland, ca. 1920s

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 10705

Spanish villa, 140 Clifford Street, South Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 10706

Stone and stucco house, 6 Richards Street, South Portland, ca. 1920s

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

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.

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.