Built by John Howard Stevens in 1904. Enlarged in 1914.
Glimpses. 182 Craigie Street. A home for an architect.
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West End Walks. The Spring houses. Of details and decay
On the upper blocks of Danforth Street, at the corner of Emery Street, sits a pair of imposing brick houses. Built in the early 1850s for members of a mercantile family whose history is now a bit vague, they now present a dichotomy of care and neglect.
West End Walks. 178 Pine Street
Glimpses. 112 Winter Street
West End Walks. 149 Western Promenade
An English Country home on the most prominent street in town brings an earlier work from the architect James P Thomas.
Aurelius S Hinds. The story of a country boy who made good.
In my post about the converted garage at 99 Chadwick Street, I noted it was originally built for Aurelius Hinds. In doing a bit of research on Mr. Hinds at that time, I realized his story was worth telling as it traces a period of growth in the city of Portland both physically and economically. His presence is felt through the buildings he left behind. One in a fashionable, then and now, section of town and the other a landmark on one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. Here is a bit more of his story. Continue reading
Glimpses. 1246 Westbrook Street
Built in 1802 by Oakes Sampson
Home, in the early 1920s, to the American Impressionist painter Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin.
Glimpses. 5 Oakdale Street
Driving down Falmouth Street by the university and this caught my eye. Something intriguing and not quite right at the same time.
320 Danforth Street. A new style for the West End.
West End Walks. 3 Storer Street
Built for Henry Lewis in 1913. Design by John Calvin Stevens
Built in the then-popular Dutch Colonial Revival style. The ‘Dutch’ connections in said style are debatable at best but that’s another story.
Portland House Stories 