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Keywords: porches

Historical Items

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Item 72953

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Corrine Sawyer, Rockland, 1912

Contributed by: Camden Public Library Date: 1912 Location: Rockland Media: Photographic print

Item 135775

South Parlour (Door to the Porch), Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print

Item 6615

The Green Parrot Tea Room and Gift Shop, Naples, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Naples Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 32508

Assessor's Record, 46 Avon Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Kathleen L Crabbe Use: Porch - Sleeping

Item 75726

Assessor's Record, 115-117 State Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth Milliken Use: Sleeping Porch

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111482

Toll residence sleeping porch elevations, Otisfield, 2011-2012

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2011–2012 Location: Otisfield Clients: Robert Toll; Jane Toll Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect

Item 111364

McIlhenny residence elevations, Portland, 1997

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1997 Location: Portland Client: McIlhenny Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect

Item 116346

Robinson house alterations, Portland, 1925-1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925–1940 Location: Portland Client: Clement F. Robinson Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929

Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.

Exhibit

Farm-yard Frames

Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)

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.

Site Pages

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Edward O'Brien House

"In later years, bay windows were added to the house at 313 Main Street, and the front porches were removed from both."

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - John Calvin Stevens House

"Note the turret and open, rounded porch which are drawn into the skin of the house by the unifying shingles."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock

"… fleur-de-lis symbol, using it lavishly in side porches, an Italianate architectural element. By the 1850s, he made a personal statement by moving…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

"Mama sings 'get your hands up'": Maria's Diary June 2020
by Maria

Maria, 7 years old, records impressions of staying with her grandparents in Somesville in June 2020.

Story

A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker

Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference