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Historical Items

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Item 96522

Contributed by: Baldwin Historical Society Date: circa 1805 Location: Baldwin; Sebago Media: ink on paper

Item 108835

Plan of lots 1-10, Fairfield, 1782

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1782-12-20 Location: Fairfield Media: Ink on paper

Item 108862

Survey of lots for Peter Brown, Georgetown, 1761

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1761-01-12 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110429

The Mount, Lenox, MA, 1980-1999

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980–1999 Location: Lenox Client: The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 116451

U.S. Courthouse alterations, Portland, 1930-1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1931 Location: Portland; Portland Client: United States Treasury Department Architect: J. A. Wetmore

Item 111594

Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Exhibit

The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

Exhibit

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Congress Street, Portland, ca. 1890

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.