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Old City Hall (Portland, Maine)

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in Market (or Haymarket) Square 1825. The first floor in the building's early years housed stalls used by farmers to sell agricultural products. Also known as Military Hall, the building's simple gable appearance was modified in 1833, to plans made the previous year by
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Between 1866 and 1868, the old city hall building was brought into use as such again, after the first iteration of the Congress Street building burned in the
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from the roof and adding a portico to the front. The cupola was reinstalled on the Universalist school house (now Alumni Hall on the
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today) between 1833 and 1888, when it was demolished. In 1862, it was replaced by an earlier version of the
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Old City Hall, pictured in 1886, two years before its demolition
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from Market House, pictured in 2024 on Alumni Hall on the
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now stands on the former site of the original city hall
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Congress Street
Middle Street
Portland, Maine
43°39′27″N 70°15′32″W / 43.65738°N 70.25891°W / 43.65738; -70.25891
Old City Hall (Portland, Maine) is located in Maine
Portland, Maine
Monument Square
City Hall
Congress Street
Portland
Market House
Charles Quincy Clapp
Greek Revival
cupola
University of New England
Portland Rum Riot
Neal Dow
new city hall
Congress Street
Exchange Street
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Monument Square
fire of 1866
United States Hotel


Monument Square
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
A sketch by Charles Quincy Goodhue (1902) of Market House (c. 1830), which was modified to become the first city hall

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