| 1897: One of the most impressive sectional views of the city of Portland. All is refreshingly new or romantically old. Thus the building to the right in the foreground has echoed the shots and felt the strokes of the balls fired by the militia into the mob during the rum riots of 1855. Across the narrow Preble Street, whence electrics depart for suburban Deering, Westbrook and Riverton Park, stands, shaded by its giant elms, the Preble house, one of Portland's chief hotels, remodeled from the mansion of Commodore Preble of Algerian war fame. Next to the Preble and still shaded by the elms, stands the early home of the poet Longfellow. All else is new; block upon block of brick and stone lining each side of the wide thoroughfare until culminating in the great Congress Square Hotel at the head, in the picture. |
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