Built in 1802 by Oakes Sampson
Home, in the early 1920s, to the American Impressionist painter Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin.
Glimpses. 1246 Westbrook Street
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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.
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.
In the gutter redux
It doesn’t get much worse
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.
