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1013: 317:, the company was only able to complete the building exteriors, and they were auctioned off, unfinished, between October 1835 and 1838. The individual unit interiors were then completed by their purchasers. Some were used initially to store hay and other materials. Looking back on this development three decades later, Neal described Park Street Row as "a huge, unsafe, unsightly row of tall houses, which passed then, and still pass for a factory, with strangers". It was added to the 108: 83: 66: 1024: 528: 115: 90: 305:, who is better remembered as a writer and critic, but was also an architect. In 1835, he made plans to build a row of eight connected homes on nearby State Street, but reduced the project to only two units after his investors backed out and formed the Ann Street Company (Park Street was previously Ann Street). That same year the company purchased a 297:
neighborhood, occupying the entire west side of Park Street between Spring and Gray Streets. It consists of fourteen residential units, built out of brick with brownstone trim, and resting on granite foundations. Each unit is four stories tall, with a dormered and skylit roof. The fronts of the units
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are three bays wide, with entrances in the right-hand bay. Iron railings are set on granite curbing between the stairs leading to each unit, and shallow iron balconies run the width of each unit. Due to the street's slope, the units are stepped in pairs.
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This housing project was one of the most ambitious of its type undertaken in 19th-century Maine. The rowhouse concept was introduced to Portland by
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The Park Street Row is located in the eastern section of Portland's
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine
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Barry, William David (January 1986). "John Neal 1793–1876". In
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

Park Street Row is located in Maine
Park Street Row is located in the United States
Portland, Maine
43°39′6″N 70°15′46″W / 43.65167°N 70.26278°W / 43.65167; -70.26278
Spring Street Historic District
ID70000043
72000074
rowhouses
Portland, Maine
Greek Revival
National Register of Historic Places
West End
John Neal
ropewalk
Congress Street
Panic of 1837
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


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