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INTERIOR, MAIN ROOM, DETAIL OF OCTAGONAL WRITING PODIUM AND CLOCK - U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
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INTERIOR, MAIN ROOM, DETAIL OF OCTAGONAL WRITING PODIUM AND CLOCK - U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Description
U.S. Department of the Treasury; Mullet, A B; Oertly, B; Kingsbury, Henry; Sargent, E C; Boucher, Jack E; Kingsbury, Martha; Reeves, F Blair
Depicted place Maine; Cumberland County; Portland
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS ME,3-PORT,25-10
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  • Significance: According to the Custom House's Collector, Mr. Washburn, in 1872 when it was opened, Portland was the 7th or 8th port in the nation in duties on consumption and warehouse goods, and 3rd or 4th in amount of duties on goods through the Custom House. A magnificent Custom House would be worthy of the trade's importance in the city, and the city's in the nation. Washburn felt that general sympathy for Portland after the devastating fire of 1866, was partly responsible for generously increased appropriations for the building. As a result, the government had erected a building "such as would stand for ages...be an ornament to the place, and would transmit to future times an idea of the architecture of our time." Following Washburn, an English ship captain with a less historical orientation, "spoke of the new edifice as the most chaste and one of the finest buildings for customs purposes he had ever been in."
  • Survey number: HABS ME-138
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1867- ca. 1872 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/me0032.photos.087890p
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