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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
50105A
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
8-11-1947
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 left 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.
Photo published in the Portland Press Herald, on 11 August 1947
(Additional view of H.H. Hay Block, from southwest, at link below)
Recommended Citation
"H.H. Hay Block building, 1947" (1947). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 499.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/499
H.H. Hay (Congress Square) from southwest- 1947
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Congress Square, Congress Street
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