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.
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.
It doesn’t get much worse
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.
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.
Built for a well known local retailer and designed by a new name in our catalog of architects.
