Our Place, 1985

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Creator

Collection

Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

Document Type

Still Image

Call number of Original

145828-1

Contributing Institution

Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

Location

Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA

Creation Date

8-23-1985

Format of Original

35mm gelatin silver negative

Description

Full exterior view of Our Place building, 54 York Street, from northeast. Maple Street at left, York Street at right. Commercial Street visible in left background. Building at 85 York Street (Portland Photographics) in right background.

Our Place, a nonprofit community center, was created in 1972, "providing social activities, suppers, games, and music to low-income people from all over Greater Portland." The building had been bought through the Portland City Council with $35,000.00 from the former federal Model Cities program and turned over to the nonprofit organization.

Photo published in the Evening Express, on 23 August 1985.

See Additional Files links- below- for 3 photos of Our Place, published in the Evening Express on 29 September 1975.

Recommended Citation

"Our Place, 1985" (1985). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Newspapers (Guy Gannett) Still Film Negatives. 718.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/718