Portland Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Victoria Mansion

  Victoria Mansion, also called the Morse-Libby House, greets you here in downtown Portland as a stately brownstone Italianate villa. Completed in 1860 as a summer home for hotelier Ruggles Sylvester Morse, it offers a remarkably intact portrait of lavish living in nineteenth-century America.

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  Portland Museum of Art

  Your walk brings you to the Portland Museum of Art, the largest and oldest public art institution in Maine, in the downtown area known as The Arts District. Founded as the Portland Society of Art in 1882, the museum used a variety of exhibition spaces until 1908, when Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat bequeathed her three‑story mansion—now known as the McLellan House—and sufficient funds to create a gallery in memory of her late husband, Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, a U.S. Representative.

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  Time and Temperature Building

  Look up at 477 Congress Street, the Time and Temperature Building, originally the Chapman Building, a 14-story office tower on Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. It replaced Preble House, itself a successor to the mansion of Commodore Edward Preble.

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  Wadsworth-Longfellow House

  At 489 Congress Street, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House is the oldest surviving structure on the Portland peninsula and a museum run by the Maine Historical Society. This brick house, built between 1785 and 1786 by American Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth, was the first wholly brick dwelling in Portland.

• Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum

  Since 1993 the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum has run its 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway, reporting mark MNGX, from the former Portland Company Marine Complex in front of you. Operating out of the former Portland Company Marine Complex since it was founded in 1993, the museum's collection gathers passenger and freight equipment and artifacts from the 2 ft lines that ran across Maine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

All 34 stops

• Monument Square (Downtown Portland)

  Your route opens onto Monument Square, once called Market Square or Haymarket Square, a town square in downtown Portland, Maine, halfway between the East Bayside…

• Time and Temperature Building (Downtown Portland)

  Look up at 477 Congress Street, the Time and Temperature Building, originally the Chapman Building, a 14-story office tower on Congress Street in downtown Portland…

• Fidelity Trust Building (Monument Square)

  Your gaze lands on the Fidelity Trust Building in Monument Square, a 135-foot, 10-story Beaux-Arts tower designed by Boston architect George Henri Desmond.

• Portland Museum of Art (The Arts District)

  Your walk brings you to the Portland Museum of Art, the largest and oldest public art institution in Maine, in the downtown area known as…

• Charles Shipman Payson Building (Congress Square)

  Your eye catches the Charles Shipman Payson Building, the most recent expansion of the Portland Museum of Art, planted on the corner of High Street…

• McLellan-Sweat Mansion (Congress Square)

  High Street meets Spring Street at the McLellan-Sweat Mansion, sometimes called the McLellan House.

• Victoria Mansion (downtown Portland)

  Victoria Mansion, also called the Morse-Libby House, greets you here in downtown Portland as a stately brownstone Italianate villa.

• Longfellow Square (Congress Street)

  Notice Longfellow Square opening around you here in Portland, Maine.

• Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland peninsula)

  At 489 Congress Street, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House is the oldest surviving structure on the Portland peninsula and a museum run by the Maine Historical Society.

• Maine Historical Society (Downtown Portland)

  Founded in 1822, the Maine Historical Society occupies 489 Congress Street in downtown Portland.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument (West End)

  On the triangular plaza at the southeast corner of Congress and State Streets, in Portland's West End, sits the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument.

• First Parish Church (Portland)

  First Parish Church greets you at 425 Congress Street, right here in Portland.

• Portland City Hall (Portland's downtown)

  Portland City Hall, the center of city government in Portland, Maine, sits at 389 Congress Street on a prominent rise anchoring a cluster of civic…

• Kotzschmar Memorial Organ (Portland)

  Inside Merrill Auditorium, in the City Hall of Portland, Maine, you face the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ.

• Merrill Auditorium (Portland)

  Merrill Auditorium, the 1,908-seat hall tucked into the eastern section of Portland City Hall, opens up in front of you.

• Mechanics Hall (downtown Portland)

  Mechanics' Hall meets you at 519 Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine.

• State Theatre (Downtown Portland)

  Where High Street meets Congress in downtown Portland, Maine, the State Theatre fills the corner at 609 Congress Street.

• Exchange Street (Old Port)

  Exchange Street runs in front of you, the main commercial thoroughfare of Portland's Old Port.

• Printers' Exchange Block (Old Port)

  Here at 103–107 Exchange Street, in the Old Port of Portland, Maine, you face the Printers' Exchange Block.

• Rackleff Building (Old Port)

  Ahead of you rises the Rackleff Building at 129–131 Middle Street, in Portland's Old Port commercial district.

• Woodman Building (Old Port)

  Architect George M. Harding designed the Woodman Building at 133–141 Middle Street, a historic commercial block built in 1867.

• Thompson Block (Old Port)

  Right here in downtown Portland, Maine, the Thompson Block occupies 117–125 Middle Street.

• J.B. Brown Memorial Block (downtown Portland)

  Congress and Casco Streets meet in downtown Portland at the J.B. Brown Memorial Block, also known as the John B. Brown Building.

• Mariner's Church (Old Port)

  Mariner's Church greets you at 366–376 Fore Street in Portland, Maine.

• United States Customhouse (Downtown Portland)

  Down at 312 Fore Street in downtown Portland, you face the United States Custom House.

• Boothby Square (Portland)

  Boothby Square unfolds around you on the last cobblestoned stretch of Fore Street.

• Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum (Eastern Promenade)

  Since 1993 the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum has run its 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway, reporting mark MNGX, from the former Portland…

• Wendameen (Maine State Pier)

  Wendameen, a historic schooner, lies berthed at the Maine State Pier on Commercial Street in Portland, Maine.

• Bagheera (Portland)

  Berthed at the Maine State Pier in Portland, Maine, is Bagheera, formerly Beacon Rock, a historic schooner.

• Fort Allen Park (Munjoy Hill)

  Fort Allen Park unfolds around you on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine.

• Eastern Promenade (Munjoy Hill)

  Stretching across Portland's farthest eastern peninsula, the Eastern Promenade is a historic 68.2-acre (27.6 ha) public park and recreation area.

• Portland Observatory (Munjoy Hill)

  Captain Lemuel Moody organized the Portland Observatory in 1807 atop Munjoy Hill, and its signal tower rises over Congress Street above you.

• Abyssinian Meeting House (Munjoy Hill)

  Tucked into the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine, the Abyssinian Meeting House occupies 73–75 Newbury Street.

• Eastern Cemetery (Munjoy Hill)

  Eastern Cemetery spreads out where Washington Avenue meets Congress Street, in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine.

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