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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.

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30-32 Deering Street. Portland’s post war/fire revival and Maine’s own ‘czar

Built in 1875-76 for William Anderson and Edward Preble

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Design by Francis Fassett. Simon Libby builder. Nathan Redlon and Samuel Knight, masons

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