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    Collection

    Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

    Document Type

    Still Image

    Call number of Original

    TL 02 MAR 1997 R5 28

    Contributing Institution

    Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

    Location

    Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA

    Creation Date

    3-2-1997

    Format of Original

    35mm color negative

    Description

    Full exterior view of business plaza at 511 Congress Street (former Maine Savings Bank Plaza), from southeast.

    In 1972, Maine Savings Bank acquired the buildings between Mechanics Hall, and Brown Street (including the Motley Block), and the buildings were demolished in 1972 and 1973. The bank plaza was completed by December 1974, and in January 1975 Maine Savings Bank opened its corporate headquarters in the building. The bank closed in 1991.

    A view of the plaza in 1982 can be seen at this link.

    Atlantic Bank was the anchor tenant in the plaza, at the time of this 1997 photograph. A D'Angelo's sandwich shop location is at right, in the ground floor east storefront. Mechanics Hall (519 Congress Street) is at left.

    Photo published in the Maine Sunday Telegram, on 2 March 1997

    Keywords

    Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Businesses, Congress Street

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