Maine’s Animal Refuge League used to be headquartered at 1 Pleasant St., shown in this 1956 Press Herald photograph.
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Demolition of Anshe Sfard synagogue, 1983
In 1983, the owners of the ‘Top of the Old Port’ parking lot tore down one of Portland’s oldest synagogues.
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Filling Long Wharf with ‘a bit of old England,’ 1945
A 1945 news photograph from the Portland Evening Express shows part of Portland Harbor being filled in with ballast from an English freighter.
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Porteous, Mitchell and Braun department store
The building was acquired and renovated during the 1990s to become the Maine College of Art.
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Portland’s skyline as seen from Back Cove, 1971
A pair of photographs from the same location in Payson Park shows the growth of downtown Portland’s skyline between 1971 and 2014.
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Portland Friends Meeting, 1996
A Press Herald photograph from 1996 shows the Portland Friends Meeting house, which celebrated its sesquicentennial with a renovation project.
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The Puritan Tea Room, 1940
A Portland Evening Express photograph from January 1940 shows a striking art-deco storefront at 566 Congress St. – now home to downtown’s Otto Pizza.
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Route 302, North Windham, in the late 1970s
This undated photograph from the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram print archives shows North Windham’s Route 302, looking southeast toward Portland. The old photograph and the 2014 view of the same area (below) share few recognizable landmarks in common, but the “Italian Sandwiches” sign seems to mark the present-day location of Feroci’s Pizzeria, and some […]
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The Gorham Station Restaurant, 1979
A Press Herald archive photograph showing Gorham’s old railroad station shortly before it was renovated into a restaurant.
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W.A.C. recruits at Union Station, 1944
A group of Maine recruits poses in front of Portland’s Union Station on St. John Street before departing for training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., in June 1944.