 Thank you all for being here. My name is Hillary Bassett, and I'm the executive director of Greater Portland Landmarks. And I'm very glad to see all of you coming out. And isn't it great that it's nice and air conditioned in here? So I just wanted to tell you a little bit about Greater Portland Landmarks. We're Portland's historic preservation, education, and advocacy organization. We've been around since the 1960s, and we started really inspired by an action, a bad action that happened on August 31st, 1961, which was the destruction of Union Station. And that is what launched the preservation movement in Portland, and it led to the founding of Greater Portland Landmarks in 1964. And since then, we've been researching, surveying, advocating, and educating about historic buildings, historic neighborhoods in the Greater Portland area. So thank you for your interest in this event. I'd like to give you a little preview of a few things that are happening at Landmarks. This is the first of four neighborhood talks that we'll all deal with different neighborhoods. We have also talks coming up in Nason's Corner, Peaks Island, and East Deering, which are all based on surveys we did this summer with our summer interns. We had four interns in our conference room doing survey work and fieldwork all over Portland. We are very involved in advocacy in Portland, and we've actually done some work. We've done some survey work in the Forest Avenue and Woodford's area. So we've actually studied this area, and then also have been doing a lot of work on Munger Hill. You may have heard about the work that we did last spring and looking toward zoning for buildings that are more compatible with the neighborhood. And the council has approved a demolition delay for historic buildings in that neighborhood. And there's more to come. We're about to start a more detailed survey of several historic areas on the hill, and one of our speakers tonight is going to be very involved in that project. So that's going to be coming up on advocacy. And then Julie is going to tell you a little bit about our strategic research as part of her talk. And I also want to call your attention to a couple of publications. The first is Four Walks Through Portland, which is a new publication that Landmarks has put together. There are four neighborhoods, the Oldport, Congress Street, India Street, and State Street. And these are illustrated guides featuring about 10 buildings in each of those neighborhoods that you can go through and learn about the buildings. And they're fun questions to get you thinking and looking about the architecture in those areas. Those are for sale at the back table. Very affordable, $7.95. And then this book, Deering, which we published back in 2010, is the first social history of the Deering area of Portland, which is pretty much every part of the city except for the islands and downtown. So many neighborhoods are covered. It's fully illustrated with wonderful documents from a lot of collections in the area. And it really kind of spurred our interest in surveying and finding out what was happening beyond the peninsula in Portland. So I highly recommend this book. If you don't have it, we have a few copies for sale in the back. And then lastly, I'd like to thank a number of folks who are here tonight. First of all, I want to recognize the Portland Media Center, which you probably know as Channel 5, which is the community TV. This talk is being recorded. So if you are a friend, if you'd like to see it again or a friend missed it, you can watch it on Channel 5. We'd also like to recognize the Main Historic Preservation Commission, the organization, state organization that provided a grant for some of our survey work this summer, especially of this neighborhood, Deering Highlands. And of course, the Woodford's Club for being our host tonight. This is great to be partnering with you again for this program. And I'd like to recognize our staff, Alessa Wiley, who's in the purple in the back, Julie Larry, who's going to be speaking, Chloe Martin in the stripes, and Tova Mellon, who are on our staff. And then Sam Shoup is one of our summer interns who's still here, which is fabulous. Now I'd like to introduce our speakers, and they've been working very hard all summer and up to the minute. Julie Larry is our director of advocacy, and she's an amazing architectural historian as well. She's able to synthesize vast quantities of information. We have piles of books and city directories all over our office. And she also has a degree in architecture from Tulane University, and previously also was a part owner of her own architecture firm, TTL Architects. And then I'd like to also introduce Sam Shoup, who's just completed, is completing his summer internship. He is working on a doctorate in American and New England studies on recreational history, which I love, 19th century cycling and other things, at Boston University getting his doctorate there. And then he's also going to be doing some more survey work for us in the next few months of the Munder Hill area to support the efforts in that neighborhood to know more about the buildings in selected areas up there. So I just want to reiterate, Hillary's thanks. Part of the funding for this comes from what's called the Historic Preservation Fund grants, and those are supported by the National Park Service and administered by the Main Historic Preservation Commission. And in addition to that grant funding, we couldn't do the work that we do without the generous donations that we receive from our membership to support our preservation and education activities. So thank you to those of you who are members. The work of our staff and interns on this project focused mainly on, this is the second year of a survey, and last year we worked on the section of the neighborhood that's highlighted in the red zone. And this summer we focused on what I would call the downhill or on the right side of this map, which is the area from Beacon Street downhill to Deering Avenue and from Highland Avenue back to the west towards Stevens Avenue. Hillary mentioned the Deering Book. The work that we did this summer couldn't have been done without all of the immense research that was undertaken to compile the Deering of Social and Architectural History by William David Berry and Patricia McGraw-Anderson. And so if you want more information on the neighborhood, there is much more than we could present this evening in the book. Deering was in the mid-19th century a part of Westbrook. Initially all of Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, Westbrook, Falmouth were part of the town of Falmouth. And eventually those communities split off and where we are with just the little red dot, if you can follow my little red dot, maybe Sam's will work better than mine, is the neighborhood that we're in. So initially we're all part of Falmouth and then the Deering neighborhood became part of the city of Westbrook. And then eventually the Westbrook downtown area, the Saccharapa Falls area, became much more industrial and had a really different character from the Deering neighborhood, which was far more residential and really acted as a suburb of the city of Portland rather than of downtown Westbrook. And so eventually Deering broke off from Westbrook. They became a town and eventually a city. And then later on were annexed in 1899 by the city of Portland, who were desperate for those voters who had moved out of the city. The two periods that we'll mainly talk about tonight are that 1871 period, the town of Deering, city of Deering period, and then after the annexation by the city of Portland. Just to orientate you on this map, you can do it. The big gray line down the middle is the railroad tracks so everyone will know where those are. We're near the top there on Woodford Street. And then this is Forest Avenue going down the right side of the image. Brighton Avenue is going up across the middle of the image and Stevens Avenue is to the left. The little green spot up at the top is Deering High School. This area was primarily owned by two large landowners. James Deering, who had a 200 acre farm that is mainly centered where the USM campus now is. But all of that acreage extended into the Deering Highlands neighborhood. And then just beyond that was the Chandler Radcliffe estate. Chandler Radcliffe owned from Forest Avenue all the way back to Stevens. He also owned some land that went down all the way into Back Cove. And if I say Back Bay tonight, somebody shoot me, okay? I've been hearing that a lot lately and it's driving me crazy. Yeah, so I'm going to talk mostly about the houses and some of the structures that we see in the neighborhoods and then Julie will offer commentary on that. Just a quick mention, I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with the 1924 tax photos, but if you're not, in 1924 the city of Portland took a picture of every tax producing structure in the city. So it's pretty much every building except schools and churches. And so it's a digitized record so you can look through the main historical society website and find your house by searching by address. But we're going to be showing a lot of the 1924 photos of these buildings and then the photographs we took this summer just so as a heads up that's what you're seeing. This is one of the rare houses that predates the formation of Deering in 1871 and the fire and all of that. This is 102 Ashmont Street which was built in 1843. Christopher Wilson purchased 13 acres from the Deering estate in 1843 and built this farmhouse. It's quite a large and imposing structure. Pretty much unlike most of the houses that you see in Deering which are single plot suburban houses. This is a large farmhouse that occupies several plots. Here's a better image of what it looks like today. It's a Greek revival main structure there on the left. It has several classical features like the pilasters and the paneling on the walls. There's a large pediment above the, thank you, we can switch laser pointer duties. Large pediment above the main section there. And then there's small windows in the entablature which all sort of indicate this early classical style. It was subsequently added to on the right side of this image here with Italian eight hoods over the doors. Decorated brackets. So those are all later additions which can still be seen. But again this is sort of a rare example of an early pre-Civil War house in the Deering neighborhood. So there I think this might be one of the earliest, if not the earliest house. I just wanted to show that sort of offer some context first for the prehistory here. In the mid-19th century the area that we studied this summer was which is outlined here in red was very sparsely settled. And most of the homes as you can see on this map from the 1857 Atlas were located along the roads that form the perimeter of the neighborhood. And that was largely because you had those two landowners who owned most of the land. This is an inset map from the 1857 Atlas. And you can see that there were a few homes in the middle of the neighborhood. Sorry. Just a few, I don't know why it works when you're talking but I can't apparently do two things at once. So there's a number of Radcliffs as can be expected as the Radcliffs own much of this land. But there are also a few other people who owned property, mostly like four to six acre parcels that were subdivided off the Radcliffe or the Deering property. You can see a few homes in the neighborhood. You can also see little blocks and stores. Woodford's Corner is right in the middle of this. You can see there is also a railroad line going up through the neighborhood running behind where the Odd Fellows Hall is now. This was the Portland and the Kennebacan Portland Railroad which later became the Portland and Rochester Railroad. That line went out of existence and then the Main Central Railroad line that came in came a little bit later than this. In 1866, the city of Portland, the peninsula had what we call the Great Fire of 1866. It destroyed a third of the Portland Peninsula. It left about 10,000 people homeless and created a tremendous need for housing very quickly. This happened on July 4th with winter coming on. They needed to house people as quickly as they could. And many residents turned to Deering as a location because it was a less dense, less of an urban area. And it was hoped it would have greater potential to avoid such catastrophic fires. Because Deering was largely rural, it also conformed to an ideal that was of the period that there would be these rural cottage lives that you could move to. Not unlike what we think of today that we're going to live in suburbia and we're going to have three acres in a house. It's that same kind of development process that was happening. And this was an ideal place for middle and upper class families. And we'll see some of the first families that moved out into the neighborhood were typically lawyers, well-to-do people who could afford to live out here and own horses and travel into the city. And that was the primary way that many people would travel into the city until the street cars. So in addition to the fire pushing people off the peninsula, the development of mass public transit was really responsible for the earnest suburban development of the Deering neighborhood. There was horse-drawn street cars built in the 1860s, which were street cars like we imagine them and see them here on the bottom photograph. But they weren't electrified, they were actually pulled by a team of horses. So there were railroad tracks running through Portland streets in the 1860s, but they were pulled by horses. In the 1890s, the trolley system gets electrified and is much more efficient. And we get these wonderful telephone wires and large poles that we are familiar with now. And then those, through the 1890s, moved all through the peninsula out to Westbrook through Deering and various other places. And then it spreads even further in the beginning of the 20th century. You can see it extending out to Morrill's Corner and beyond 1911 there. The photograph at the top left is from Woodford's Corner. That's where the ride aid that just closed is located. There used to be a central street car stop there that you could catch the train going into Monument Square wherever you were going on the peninsula. And I think an electrified ride, as we've estimated, was probably about 10 to 15 minutes. If you think about it, the trolleys were on unobstructed rails so they could move pretty freely through the traffic. So it was a pretty efficient system, but it's these regularly trolleys that are running year-round that allow living in Deering to be possible. I'm sure a lot of people here who live in Deering also commute to Portland. And at the turn of the century it was done by street car mostly. This is just not the best quality but is a fun map that I've shown before in various settings that's kind of interesting to look at. This was produced by the Portland Railroad Company, which was the main entity that ran the street cars in Portland. This is a map they produced around 1900. And you can see on the peninsula here all of the white lines are their major street car lines. So there was two running through sort of cutting across on Conger Street here to the heart of the peninsula and then working their way out over Tukey's Bridge around the Boulevard, all down Brighton Ave, Forest Avenue to Woodford's Corner. And you can see the section that we're talking about here is really enclosed by this street car. So no matter where you're living you're always within a few blocks of the train. So it was really, again, just to sort of emphasize how efficient it is. And this is certainly not the most accurate map, but you can just see how the trolley companies are imagining Westbrook and out towards Gorham as this like pastoral farmland. But you can see here how Deering is starting to look, even in this rendition, sort of as urban as Portland, you know, gridded streets laid out high density. And again, this is from about 1900. Oh, did I say back Cove? No. Oh, back Bay. Yeah. So this is a map from just shortly after that great fire of 1866. And we start to see the neighborhood slowly developing more as people are building houses in the Deering Highlands, particularly on part of Radcliffe's land. So this is Mechanic Street, which is now Revere Street. And you can see there are a number of houses on that northern side of the street. There are about 14 houses built within a period of 20 years along this side of the street that was subdivided. All of these people generally bought their property right straight from Radcliffe. A year after this in 1872 Chandler Radcliffe would pass away. He's buried in Pine Grove Cemetery out near UNE. In a couple years later in 1874 his heirs laid out a subdivision plan of the neighborhood. And this is the plan of the neighborhood. So we have, oops, we have at the far side over here would be the Stevens Avenue end of the neighborhood. This is Deering Avenue. Here's the railroad coming through the neighborhood. And you can see there was initially planned that there would be this loop of the streets coming together as they went up to what is now Highland Street was marked high street on that. So this didn't quite get executed as the family laid it out. But in large part the neighborhood that exists today was part of this development. So this is one of the houses that still exists that is on that Radcliffe development that Julie was just describing. This is 452 Deering Avenue. So if you're driving towards Big Sky on Deering Avenue this is on your left approaching there. This was built in 1879. It's an Italian 8 style house with a carriage barn. The Italian 8 style was really fashionable style of building in the United States in the 1870s, 1880s and so forth. And this house really sort of fits into that mold. You can identify that by the decorated brackets under the roof line there and over the windows. And then also the tall narrow arched windows there extending from the bay, the bay windows. And then on the left there we have a little less decorated but still some ornamentation on the carriage barn there which would be for horses. Again this is a 1924 photograph. This is what it looks like today. I'm sure maybe some people recognize this. This is looking at it from Deering Avenue. And you can still see that it retains some of its original features which is really nice. These tall skinny arched windows and the decorated brackets under the roof line and on the hood over the front door. And the owners now have maintained it in really good shape and kept the paint up. We think we have a close up image of the attached carriage barn which you could see where the horses would go in. That door is still the same. The window placements have stayed the same original from the 1870s. And then the haymow which is where that center window that Julie was just pointing to is used to be a door where you would low hay into the loft for your horses. But now you can see it's been replaced by a window. When we were surveying this summer there was a guy, I think he was just whittling in the garage there and he let us go in and see the garage. And then he said that they stored hay beneath, there's a basement in the carriage barn where they stored hay beneath it and on top. So it's pretty diverse use carriage barn. But it's still there in pretty much its original shape which is fantastic. But again it's 1870s Italian. Here is a stick style house on 84 Lincoln Street. Again this is a 1924 photograph of it. This was built right around the same time, 1874. The stick style was another popular style of building at the end of the 19th century. That was sort of happening at the same time as the Italian 8 style. There are some modest differences between the two. The gable of the roof is a much steeper pitch so it's a little more of an extreme angle. Then there's also decorative trusses under the gable. So those little decorative features there in the corner. And then there's diagonal braces under the porch. Here's what it looks like today. You can see it's retaining a lot of its original features which is great. It includes the decorative trusses under the gables of the house and on the carriage barn which the 24 photograph. There's a tree in the way unfortunately so you can't see it but they are there behind the branches. And then you can see that they've been maintained here today. These styles with all this decoration, the trusses and so forth on the stick style and the Italian 8, all these brackets and so forth are made possible by this period of the Second Industrial Revolution. So trains are happening, electrification is happening, and the mass production of goods and lumber and things like this to build houses are spreading and being transported all over the country. And so highly ornamented houses at the turn of the century are really a product of this and that is all over Deering. So these Italian 8 styles with this type of decoration or the stick style and so forth are really very much of their time and indicative of the neighborhood. Because they were stick framed houses and this was meant to be an expression of the stick on the outside when you would have these, although they were decorative trusses this isn't really holding up the roof at all. See for some reason I'm capable of doing, maybe it's because I'm using my left hand. Because they were, you were expressing the structure, you were expressing the stick structure so it was the stick style. It's also another name for it is Eastlake Victorian. You tend to hear that a little bit more on the west coast. If you think of the painted ladies in San Francisco that's a very famous image. Those are Eastlake Victorian or stick style houses for the most part. This is a bird's eye map from about, this is from 1886. The way bird's eye maps were made was they sent folks out into the field in turns like Sam. Who would have come from Chicago or New York or Boston and come out and they would have done sketches of individual buildings and then those were taken back to the offices and assembled into these bird's eye maps which were kind of the early Google views or satellite images. They're highly reliable because they were done from field work in the field. But of course there's a time lap there because people come out into the field so maybe two years later. So this is maybe more representative of what Dering would have looked like in say 1884 than 1886. What we found in doing some of our research was some of the buildings that we know and can document were built in 1886 aren't on this map but that is again a product of the time that it takes to assemble these images. I'm going to point out some of the, this track here, this is Presum Scott Trotting Park. This is where the playing fields and Dering High School are now. This was built by the owners of the trolley system. This was an entertainment venue to get you to ride their trolleys out of the city to go on a Saturday or Sunday out to the races and to ride on their streetcar system and spend your money. You have the cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery out here, closer in. This is, right here is Woodford's Corner. We have the Hesseltine School. Those of you who maybe grew up in this neighborhood might remember that. It's at the corner of Irving Street. I think it's Hesseltine Park or Irving Street Playground. That's the site of the school that was built by the city of Westbrook to house the growing school children population in Woodford's Corner as this neighborhood developed. And then, let's see, anything else that we can see there? It's hard to see on that image. At the same time period as we're having a more densely developed suburban neighborhood here in the Highlands, we still have large scale mansions along Bat Cove. And most of the farms extended had some piece of frontage on the Bat Cove and then extended out to one of the major streets. This is a blow up of the Deering Highlands neighborhood kind of zooming in on that bird's eye image. You can see some of that. This is Woodford's Congregational Church, the old church before it was across the street, about where we are today. This is Woodford Street. This is Prospect Clark, which is now Ashmont, correct? Is that right? Yeah. And then this is Mechanic Street here, but which is now Revere Street. And then Lincoln and that would be Coyle, right? Yeah. You can see some of, there's some larger houses up here in the neighborhood. And we have on this slope of the hill fairly built up, particularly closer you are to the corner. The back end of the neighborhood towards Stevens Avenue is still largely rural and agricultural. All right. One of the houses that is from this period right around the bird's eye of 1886, we have 47 Revere Street again, and this is a 1924 photo. This is an Italian aid structure, and we thought we'd show it because it has quite a unique feature that survives, which is the, I'm going to pronounce this wrong, but Port... Go share. Go share. My French is... Which is this member sticking out here on the left, which was where you would drive your carriage in under here to get to your carriage part in the back, but it was a covered sort of a 19th century carport, if you will. And just some, I have a little bit of social history about the people who built the house and owned it. The turn of the century was occupied by a 64-year-old Charles Ratcliffe, who was a salesman in a local grocery store. He also lived with his 32-year-old daughter, May, who was a dressmaker. And there was other tenants in the building. It's not clear if it was multifamily in the turn of the century, but census and city directories indicate that there was quite a number of people living there, so it's possible that there was borders or separate units. The person living in the building was a 70-year-old Harriet Jewel and her 42-year-old son, Thomas, who was a railroad conductor, and his 53-year-old wife, Margaret. When Charles Ratcliffe died in 1907, the owner of the house, his daughter sold the house immediately and moved with her husband out of Portland, so it seems like she was taking care of him and then was, once he was passed, was ready to leave, yeah. Here's an image of the structure today. You can still see the Port Co-Share survives. It's been filled in the first floor as sort of a garage or shed, but the original structure is still there, which is pretty remarkable. Some of the Italian features are a little more visible in this image. We have the long, again, skinny windows that are arched, the bay windows with the decorative members over the tops of them, and it is currently a three-unit house. So again, we're not sure if it was broken up into separate units when it was built, but it is now. Here is a house at 207 Coil Street. This was built right around 1886, so at the same time that that bird's eye was made. And here we have a new style that's introduced in addition to the Italian eight-and-a-stick style, and this is the Queen Anne, which is another style that's really popular throughout the Deering neighborhood. The Queen Anne is defined by various window shapes, so we have all sorts of different sizes and shapes, windows. A regularity is really key here. This corner tower, lots of decoration and sort of odd features. Decorative brackets you can see over the windows and on the cornice, the roof line there. And then we have small gables here on the lintels above the first floor windows. So this Queen Anne style that you also see all over Deering is really marked by lots of irregularity, big, bold roof forms, and lots of ornamentation. It was built by Isaac Elder, again in 1886. He was an attorney who lived on the peninsula on Smith Street, which is right at the bottom of the hill near Union Bagel, if anyone has been there. He lived with his wife, daughter, and sister, and the family owned it until about 1930 when they sold it and it was subsequently turned into a two-family home. So this started as a single family home, but then became a multi-family home. What kind of family had Alice? Well, Isaac? An attorney. Yeah, an attorney. Isaac Elder, who's an attorney. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So would it be time to have their parents living one side or the other at all? Isaac, we know, was older at the period when he built this house, so he was more established when he built this. And he actually had some of his adult, he had an adult daughter who lived with them and his sister, who was a public school teacher. So they had a servant because you don't clean a house like this by yourself without electricity. So those information that you can gather from the census records help tell you a little bit, start to tell you the story about how somebody can afford a house this big and what they took to take care of a house this big, which is probably why when they sold the property in the 30s, you think we're in the Depression, somebody in that era couldn't afford a big house like this, and so it became a multi-unit. So here it is today. You can see the general shape has been maintained, but it has lost some of its stylistic features. The wood clabbered signing has now become vinyl, which is pretty common throughout the neighborhood in all of Portland. The lintel decoration is gone. A lot of the windows are much more plain now as they've been replaced with vinyl windows and so forth. And it is now four-unit house, which you can see by the mailboxes here. So it's been split up even further to be apartments. But again, this is 207 Coil Street from about 1886. Here is a house on Glenwood Avenue. Here's another Queen Anne house that takes a little bit of a different approach. Unlike originally built as a single-family house, this was originally built as multi-family. It's a double house that's actually two units in one. This is 69 to 71 Glenwood Avenue built around 1896. It also has decorated lintels, brackets, large front porch. There's paneling between the windows. Windows are different shapes and sizes. Again, a lot of the features that just sort of scream Queen Anne. But again, what's different about this is that it's a double house, but really taking after the style of these large single-family houses to try to fit into the vibe of the neighborhood to look like a single-family house but offer a more affordable alternative. And just to give an example, at 1900, the two occupants, one of them was John Cummings, who was a manager at a grocery store, and then the other occupant was Clarence Daniels, who was a driver for a bakery on Congress Street. So someone who worked at Big Sky may be living in the apartment. Here's what it looks like today. Again, this is on Glenwood Avenue right around 1896. This is what it looks like this summer. It's some of its original architectural integrity. My least favorite thing that's gone is the shared front porch. So now each of the entrances are isolated in their own, which sort of breaks with the communal character of the house, which is kind of unfortunate. They have their own sort of awnings here, hoods over the doors. So the original front porch is gone. And the window decorations on the first floor are also gone. So the building looks a little more plain. So you can see the serious decoration, small brackets, all of this sort of separating the first and second floor has now been gone and it really sort of changes the whole character of the house. But again, still there. It has natural wood shingle siding. Well, shift to the back of the neighborhood or the western end of the neighborhood now towards Stevens Avenue. This will help you key in a little bit. This is Stevens Avenue. This is Prospect Street, Belknap Street, and Radcliffe Street, I believe, right? And so this is the original subdivision of Belknap Street in 1899. This is the plan of the Belknap lot, which is where Belknap Street, of course, takes its name. It was extended a little bit further back and to what is now Mason Street. It was extended back in 1904. This portion of the land was then owned by Richard G. Smith, who was a mason who lived nearby on Concord Street and perhaps where the name Mason Street comes from. We know where the name Belknap comes from. It comes from the Belknap family that owned the land in this neighborhood. They were most well known for owning a tripe factory of you who don't eat tripe on a regular basis. That's stomach. Across Stevens Avenue, a little bit closer to the corner with Brighton Avenue, and this is an advertisement from 1888 advertising their company. Tripe and Pig's Feet, it's what's for dinner. The Belknaps sold land to the McRonald family at 27 Belknap Street in 1899, and a leaser, McRonald, was a carpenter. He built this house for his family here on Belknap Street. He would have been very popular with all of the various styles as a carpenter in the city of Portland. He constructed his house in the Queen Anne style. He died just a few short years later in 1902, but other members of his family continued to live in the house, including his wife Elmyra, their son Fred, who was a machinist at 58 4th Street, which we now know as the Portland Company. And then later on, his brother Adelbert Howard McRonald, which is quite a name, lived in the house with his family. He was a draftsman for the state of Maine. This building is really still quite spectacular. It features some very character defining features of the Queen Anne style. It has these cutaway bays here. It has this big large roof that encompasses the front porch. It also has a stained glass window here on the side. And then I just want to call your attention. It has its original porch skirt, which is laid out with a brick pattern. This is an amazing piece of detail to have survived. Often those things get replaced with cheap lattice pattern from Home Depot. So this is a great building. A little bit further into the neighborhood, we have the laying out of Glenwood Avenue in 1897. This was laid out in part by Charles B. Dalton, who was a major real estate developer in the city of Portland. He was a director of the Cape Shore Railway, and he also developed subdivisions in South Portland and Cape Elizabeth. And he owned a hotel in Portland called the Colonial Hotel. So here is one of the houses that sprouts up on Glenwood Avenue. This is the same house that we used for our flyer for this event, so it might seem familiar. This is 30 Glenwood Avenue. It was built around 1899. And we chose this one because it is exemplary of another style that is emerging at the turn of the century that gains popularity in the Deering neighborhood, as well as all over New England, called the Shingle style, which is defined by irregular roof forms and lots of strange and creative ornament. So with this house, we have quite a bit of irregular roof forms, including this conical tower here on the front. There's a flat roof, two-story bay, also tower-looking piece in the back, and then a gambrel, almost barn-like shape roof on the back. So three roof forms, three major pieces, making up the basis of this house. And then there's also a decorated stained glass window in the tower here. This was owned by Miss Susan Heaton, who at the time, the census records indicate that she lived with her partner, Miss Julia Schwab. So we're not sure... Julie did most of the research for these two women, but we're not sure what that partnership was, if it was business or otherwise, but it was two women who owned and ran this house at the turn of the century. This is as it appears today. It's in great shape. Some of the features have changed. They've added a hipped roof to the... which was once flat on this bay back here. And there's also now this sort of commanding garden. And if you haven't taken a walk down Glenwood, you should because there's a lot of fantastic gardens there. And this is also a great image because you can see another shingle-style structure in the back, again, with various kind of roof forms and the gambrel and then a gabled roof here. But right next door to each other, there's a string of shingle-style houses there, and this one sort of starts it. This is...now we are moving over to Woodford Street, which is...this is a house that has a story that everyone will probably be familiar with. This is 332 Woodford Street. This was built around 1904. This is an example of a Queen Anne house, but also has a lot of sort of colonial revival features, as well to it, slightly less ornamentation than a typical Queen Anne, more reserved. You can see that in the simple Doric columns here on the porch, and windows are all pretty regular. It's sort of a reserved Queen Anne style. This was owned by Arthur Ledbetter, who ran a dairy in the barn behind the house, which is connected, and I'll show you a picture of it in a second. Arthur Ledbetter owned this house and ran his dairy out of the barn until 1921, when the Bennett family bought the dairy and moved it to Forest Avenue, and it's now what we know as Oakhurst. So this is the house that Oakhurst built, and here it is today. It's painted a nice bright yellow color on the Woodford Street facade that's facing Woodford Street. Not much has changed, except the porch entrance has changed. So on the last one, you used to enter from Woodford Street straight up into the house, and now you enter from the driveway, which is over here. There's a walking path, and you go sideways up the porch. So that has changed. But it's still, from this angle, you can see a little bit more of that Queen Anne decoration under the roofline here, which I learned today is called the Soffit, which are these striped painted members here. I'm a cultural historian, and spent the summer learning architectural history. So it's still in great shape today, and the people who own it have been doing a great job. This is an image of the barn. They've gone with sort of the ketchup and mustard motif. And the barn, we don't have original photos of it, so it's hard to tell exactly how much it's changed, but it certainly has changed quite a bit since its original construction has expanded and so forth and been connected in various ways to the main structure. But this is more or less where Oakhurst started, and this is right on Woodford Street. Here is another style of house that is prevalent in the Deering neighborhood. This is known as the Triple Decker. This is 177 Coil Street. This was built around 1908, and it's a three-family apartment building. So there's one unit on each floor, hence the name Triple Decker. We have possibly an occupant there standing on the snowbank. This is a popular style all through New England in the early 20th century. This is all over Boston, Dorchester to make a plane. I actually live in one in Jamaica Plain. And it is all over Monjoy Hill, and it hits Deering at the beginning of the 20th century too. It's much more modest in decoration, but it does have a bay window, which we've been seeing in some of the Queen Anne houses in Italian 8, and it does have some decorative brackets under the roof line here. So it's a bit more modest, but it does have some of those features that speak to the rest of the neighborhood. Here's what it looks like today. The vinyl siding is sort of, I think, kind of masks it a little bit. The original, the clabbards were painted different colors, sort of made it stand out a little bit more and separate that first floor. And the monotone vinyl siding has sort of taken that ornament away, but we can still see the small decorative brackets under the roof line in the bay window still projecting out. And the three levels indicate the three units, but also I'm sure we're all familiar with our three recycling bins there. When it was built, it was owned by Winfield Thurston, who was a carpenter who lived on Franklin Street downtown. Throughout the early 20th century, it changed hands several times and was owned continuously by people who didn't live there. So this was always an investment property and a revenue-creating property. So in addition to people living in these houses in the Deering neighborhood, there's also these revenue-creating apartment buildings that are going up as well. This is 14 Prospect Street. This is sort of the last iteration of housing style that I'll talk about. This is in the later era in the 1920s. This was built around 1921. This is a bungalow-style house. We suspect this was a kit house, meaning that it was built from catalog plans put out by seers and other companies like that. We used to be able to buy pretty much a whole house from a catalog and get it built. There are several homes in the Deering neighborhood that we suspect are kit houses, and this bungalow style was really popular in those catalogs. That bungalow style is really defined by this large, dramatic, hipped roof and then this porch that's engaged under the main roof form. So this three-season engaged porch under this big roof is really indicative of the bungalow style. Early owners include George Hudson, who was a painter. He lived with his wife, Emily. By 1930, 10 years after the house's built, census records indicate that George was an invalid. His daughter took care of him. Alice and her husband lived there too, who was a manager at a gas station. So it's pretty really representative of the era of cars sort of hitting the scene here. And he lived at home too and probably helped take care of him. So there was at least four people living here at one time, a whole family. Here's what it looks like today. A few things have changed. Dormers have been added to the side. So this dormer was always there in the original plan, but there's a dormer on the side of the roof here and there's also one on the other side. If you look at the Google image street view or walk by yourself, which has expanded the top floor. And then there's been replacement windows and that engaged porch has been turned into insulated input as part of the house and so remodeled. And it is currently for sale. And as of this afternoon, looking on Zillow, it's, I think, 390,000. So on Prospect Street. So Deering is a popular place to be. And then the last house I'll talk about, which is getting at this last era of transportation, which we're all familiar with now, which is the car. This is 48 Revere Street. This is also what we suspect to be a kit house. So this is a popular style that was through all these Sears and catalog magazines and so forth. The Dutch colonial revival, which is really defined by this gambrel roof, this long dormer side door that leads to the basement. This probably goes to the landing of the basement. A little stained glass window over the stairs. And then the original car garage here in the back, which is still there. There's not too many of these left in Deering. A lot of garages have been updated. But this is what the original auto garages built in the early teens and 20s would look like. They're often one story with a hip roof. You can see this one has gotten some sort of natural decoration here. And then sometimes they're just one door wide or two bay. We've seen, I think, some as much as four. But the doors were these kind of the hinged swinging doors. So you'd have to get out of your car and open. And you can imagine with any snow on the ground how miserable this would be and how it's quick that garage design brings in the door, the garage door, the overhead door that we know today. And you can just see how frustrating this is. And you can notice the car not parked in the garage. But again, this is on Revere Street. And it's still the original garage with the original doors that exist. And there's a couple of these hidden throughout. Moving back over towards the Brighton Corner. This area of the neighborhood, as I showed in the bird's eye image, stayed largely agricultural for a longer period of time. This section of the neighborhood that I'm going to talk about is right here at the layout of Hollis Street, or Hollis Road, I believe it's called now. This was the farm of Robert D. Hollis. He was a farmer who came to the United States from Nova Scotia. He is listed in agricultural census records from 1880 as living on his small four acre farm. He had two horses, a milk cow that produced 100 gallons of milk and 50 pounds of butter. They had a hog and 30 hens that laid 400 dozen eggs. His heirs sold his farm in 1914 to Ethel Elliott. And Ethel Elliott and her husband George built this house at 367 Brighton Avenue. And this was at the same time that Hollis Road was laid out through the farmland. This Arts and Crafts bungalow has several of the features that Sam was talking about earlier on other properties. It has the big hipped roof. It has an engaged porch underneath that roof. We have some hipped roof dormers as well. One of the things that I think is really nice about this is it had these lattice screens at each end of the porch, which sadly are no longer there. Ethel was a manor, but her husband George had come to the US from Prince Edward Island in 1885. He was a jeweler and manufacturer of jewelry in downtown Portland on Forest Avenue. Here's the house today. It's right next to what is now Brighton Medical Center. It's currently owned by a division, a realty division of Maine Medical Center. At the other end of Hollis, we have 40 Hollis Road, which was built sometime between 1924 and 1925. We know it was probably here in 1924 because the tax photo was here. I don't know why I had 25 written here. It was built for Reverend Thomas Owens, who was the minister of the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Portland and his family. Shortly after the family moved to Hollis Road, Thomas passed away, but the family continued to live in the dwelling until his children sold the house in 1948. It's a colonial revival home. It's much more reserved than the Queen Anne style that we've been seeing. It has a very square form, very rectilinear. It has a portico with some simple columns. A portico literally means tiny porch, so you can't put your chair out there or anything like that and have a cup of coffee. It has four-over-one and eight-over-one windows, and very typical of the colonial revival style is you'll have an attached side, either L or porch. It was often like a reading room or a three-season porch. Here's the building today. It's had replacement columns, but it essentially still looks very similar until it did in 1924. Over on Brighton Avenue, this is an image from 1900 of a very early building in the neighborhood built circa 1800. This building later became known as Highfield, and it was the home of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Sr. This was on Brighton Avenue near Highland Street. Alexander was the brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was a photographer, a mariner, an explorer, and an artist, and he lived in this house from about 1851 until the family moved sometime after 1870. In this image at this period, the dwelling was owned by George Thornton Edwards, who was a real estate developer in this neighborhood. He lived in the house until it burned around 1907. He was responsible for the development of this section of the neighborhood in Dering Highlands, as well as the area across Brighton Avenue, which is known as the Longfellow Highlands. This is an image from the Portland Department of Public Works. This was about 1940, and you can see this is Dering Avenue. Here's the railroad tracks running through the neighborhood. Woodford Street Stevens Avenue and Brighton Avenue. You can see at this point much of the neighborhood is built out and developed, as are most of the other surrounding neighborhoods. Here where the star is, you can see there's a fairly large lot with a single home here. We're going to talk a little bit about that as we wrap up tonight. This was originally the Pierce Family House. It was then bought in the early 20th century by Dr. Westcott for his sanitarium, where he had mental and nervous patients. It would later be bought by a group of physicians who incorporated in 1935 and initially purchased a residence at 166 Pleasant Avenue, which is just over here. That was where they established a 16-bed hospital for osteopathic medicine in 1937. They then purchased the Westcott property, and that property had a barn associated with it. It sat on 5.25 acres, which is why you can see it was a very large open lot, and the house could double the size of the number of beds that they could provide. That became, for those of us who've been here a while, the Osteopathic Hospital, now Brighton Medical Center. You can see here in this image, the Westcott sanitarium or the Pierce House attached to a modern 1950s addition where you could go out and sit on the balconies and get the fresh air, and that would be part of your healing. Of course, you can't do that anymore. People jump. Those have been closed off, and you can see as the hospital developed in the neighborhood and grew over a period of additions, there were about five to six additions that happened over a 30-year period at the hospital. It slowly encroached on the rest of the neighborhood, and we know that some houses were removed along Prospect Street and along Hollis Road. You can see in this great construction image some of the neighborhood houses to the back, which I believe some of them aren't there at the extension of the parking lot that's happened. One of the last additions was done in the 1970s, and here was a rendering that appeared in the Portland Press Herald for that. You can see here it is today as we know it as New England Rehab and Brighton First Care. There are a lot more properties that we focused on during the survey. There are nearly over 300 resources that the interns looked at in the Deering Highlands neighborhood alone. As I mentioned, we also surveyed properties on Peaks Island, East Deering, the Nason's Corner neighborhood, and as well as a smaller neighborhood near the Hannaford called Baxter Boulevard Park, rather, kind of behind where Palmer Springs is if you're familiar with that neighborhood. If you want any more information on the properties that we worked on this summer, all of these properties that we've documented are online in the statewide database, which can be accessed at this link above. If you have any questions, you can also email me. My email is right there on the screen. It's super easy. J-L-A-R-R-Y at brolinlandmarks.org. And we have a number of additional meetings coming up. We have all of the neighborhood meetings in East Deering, on the Peaks Island and the Nason's Corner. We also have our annual meeting at the end of next month. We're going to be having our annual meeting at the Motherhouse on Stevens Avenue, which will be residents will be moving into the following week. So this will be an opportunity to get in and see the restoration of that fantastic building. And we're going to be having our preservation awards that same evening. We also have some architectural workshops coming up. If you want to learn more about how to research your house, I'll be doing a talk in October on how to do that. And all of this information can be found on our website. One of the other things that's on our website is Hillary mentioned earlier, we're doing a strategic plan. We're doing some research before we launch into that plan. And one of the things we're asking for is feedback from the public on our work and what we do and the events and the programs that we present. And it would be really terrific if you would be willing to help us and take a very quick survey, just 10 questions or so. Very easy questions too, I think. And so that's available on our website too. It's right on the front page as you go in and you can just click on that. That would be really helpful to us as we move forward. So thank you very much for your attention here today. And if you have any questions, Sam and I will be here. We can answer some questions now or if you feel more comfortable, you can come on up to us afterwards too.