Somerset Building and The Pagoda Restaurant, 1959

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Creator

Collection

Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

Document Type

Still Image

Call number of Original

93768C-1

Contributing Institution

Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

Location

Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA

Creation Date

9-23-1959

Format of Original

4 x 5" gelatin silver negative

Description

Full exterior of Somerset Apartments building, 633 Congress Street, from southeast. The Pagoda restaurant, at street level. Rear of building at 12 Deering Street, in left background.
The popular Chinese restaurant, owned by the Henry Wong family, was in business at this location from 1940-1985. In 1986, the Pagoda re-opened at 5 Forest Avenue, and was in business until closing in 1992.

Photo published in the Evening Express, on 23 September 1959

[See Additional Files links- below:
Complete Pagoda menu from 1982,
and
An exterior view of The Pagoda entrance in January 1985.]

Recommended Citation

"Somerset Building and The Pagoda Restaurant, 1959" (1959). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Newspapers (Guy Gannett) Still Film Negatives. 466.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/466