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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
133302
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
2-28-1978
Format of Original
35mm gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior view of H.H. Hay Drug Store, in the H.H. Hay Block (594 Congress Street), from west. Congress Street in foreground. Free Street in right background.
The H.H. Hay building (the "Upper Hay's," as the "Lower Hay's" drug store (in the Byron Greenough Block) was built at the northeast extremity of Free Street {262 Middle Street}) is also known at the Charles Quincy Clapp Block, named after the building's architect. Built in 1826, a third story designed by John Calvin Stevens was added in 1922.
In 1979, funding from a Federal Urban Development Action Grant (coinciding with the expansion of the Portland Museum of Art and the creation of Congress Square Park) was used for renovating and restoring the H.H. Hay Block.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 28 February 1978
(Additional view of H.H. Hay Block, from southwest, at link below)
Recommended Citation
"H.H. Hay Block building, 1978" (1978). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Newspapers (Guy Gannett) Still Film Negatives. 331.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/331
H.H. Hay (Congress Square) from southwest
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Congress Square, Congress Street
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