An English Country home on the most prominent street in town brings an earlier work from the architect James P Thomas.
West End Walks. 149 Western Promenade
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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.
Glimpses. 99 Chadwick Street
Originally a garage for Aurelius S Hinds. A successful druggist and businessman. At some point, it was converted to a home. The details of the street facades and gardens are wonderful.
1365 Westbrook Street. The Francis Waldo / Daniel Dole house.
Much has been said and written about General Samuel Waldo. War hero. Scoundrel. Promoter of colonial settlement. Opportunist. Above all of these, for our purposes, he was a powerful force in the early settlement of Portland and the area.
Images. In the gutter
The Great Fire. Greater Portland Landmarks gets into the spirit.
The Great Fire. A well done piece by the Portland Press Herald.
A pretty well done special presentation by the PPH on the Great Fire of 1866.
The attribution of the origin of the fire to kids playing with firecrackers is not supported by historical informatíon. It is at best apocryphal and, in my opinion, is pure anti-irish just as blaming Chicago’s fire of 1871 on Mrs O’Leary’s cow was.
Portland House Stories 