Built ca 1895
A nicely detailed and well preserved Queen Anne in the USM neighborhood.
Glimpses. 108 Fessenden Street.
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464 Deering Avenue
Built in 1877
They called it the ‘Old Back Bay Road’ when Nathaniel Sawyer purchased the lot for our subject in what was then the Town of Deering from Edward Winslow in 1876. After Deering was annexed by Portland it would become today’s Deering Avenue.
38-40 Quebec Street
Built in 2016-17
Modernism has been making it’s way into Portland slowly but with an increasing presence over the last few years. It’s time for us all to accept it
Glimpses. 30 Glenwood Avenue
Built ca 1899
As we have seen in previous posts, the introduction of trolley and omnibus service in the 1880’s & 90’s opened large tracts of former farm lands westward off the peninsula to development. Our subject is part of this trend and puts us back in touch with Mr. Llewellyn Morse Leighton.
31 Belmeade Street.
Built in 1923 by Frank and Grace Leavitt
Design by John Calvin and John Howard Stevens
