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Gazetteer of the State of Maine With Numerous Illustrations, by Geo. J. Varney

BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY B. B. RUSSELL, 57 CORNHILL. 1882. Public domain image from

GAZETTEER OF MAINE.

240 rooms, and 10 large stores. Its front is of Albert-stone, and its side
walls pressed brick, with Albert-stone trimmings. The building of the
first National Bank, near by, is a fine building of red-sandstone. A little
farther down is the fine granite front of the Casco Bank building. The
Maine Savings Bank has its rooms on the corner of Plum street. Over
it is the St. Julian Hotel, a neat little house conducted on the European
plan. A short distance beyond is the handsome red-freestone building
of the Canal Bank. The oldest of the public houses of the ci^v, recently
enlarged and brought up to the requirement of the times, is the United
States Hotel, on the eastern side of Market square, and occupying the
space between Federal and Congress streets. In Stanton Block, on
Exchange street, the Board of Trade has its head-quarters ; and here,
also, is the Merchants’ Exchange, with its reading-room. Close by is

PORTLAND OBSERVATORY.

the elegant building of the Merchants’ Bank. On the corner of
Middle and Exchange streets is the Post-Office, an elegant building of
Vermont marble, occupying a square by itself. Among its red brick
neighbors, its chaste white walls and elegant architecture give it a
somewhat ethereal look. Its cost was half a million of dollars. In the
second story is the United States Court room and offices. A little
further up on the same street, is the fine block of the Portland Saving’s
Bank,—then the Printer’s Exchange, where several papers are issued.
On Congress street, at the head of Exchange, is the City Government