New Chapman building, Portland, 1924
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Maine Historical Society
The city continued to encroach on the former family home.
The 10-story Fidelity Trust Building was built only nine years after Anne Pierce's death, in 1910. At the time, it was the tallest building in New England.
In 1924 the Chapman building was built on the Preble House site, across Preble Street from the Fidelity Building.
Developers retained three bays of the Preble house to reduce the impact on the adjacent Wadsworth-Longfellow house.
These tall buildings provided office space for the new class of workers who commuted to work.
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