Keywords: tree-lined street
Item 1208
State Street looking south from Longfellow Square, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 100189
Brown Street, Portland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Maine Historic Preservation Commission Date: circa 1875 Location: Portland Media: photographic print
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architecture
"… been known for the impressive homes lining its tree-lined streets. It is a town whose architecture retains the original 19th century flavor of a…"
