Keywords: Sylvan Site (Portland, Me.)
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 10688
Stone house with clipped gables, 974 Sawyer Street, South Portland, c. 1920s
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
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.
