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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
124973
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
3-13-1974
Format of Original
35mm gelatin silver negatives
Description
Full exterior views of the Butler Elementary School, 71 Pine Street, as the building was being prepared to become apartment housing. Designed by Portland architect Francis Fassett (notably, the designer of the Rines Brothers Company department store building), Butler School was built in 1879. The school closed in 1972, as the new Reiche School (166 Brackett Street) opened.
Photos published in the Evening Express, on 13 March 1974
[Full view of the Butler School, in 1899, from "Portland Past and Present," at Additional Files link below.]
Recommended Citation
"Butler School, 1974" (1974). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 402.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/402
Butler School in 1899
Keywords
Portland, Me., West End, Schools
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