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John Calvin Stevens House, 52 Bowdoin Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME



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Data Pages


Item Title


Location
52 Bowdoin Street, Portland, ME

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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.

Notes
Survey number HABS ME-137
Building/structure dates: 1884 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1905 subsequent work
Significance: House was built in 1884 in the "shingle style" by the Portland architect John Calvin Stevens, 1855-1940, as his own residence and has an early example of revived use of the gambrel roof.

Subjects
"Mission 66" Program
Brick Buildings
Houses


Related Names
Stevens, John Calvin


Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Contents
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer August 1965 NORTH ELEVATION
2. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 BASEMENT PLAN, 1905
3. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 FIRST FLOOR PLAN, 1905
4. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 SECOND FLOOR PLAN, 1905
5. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 ATTIC PLAN, 1905
6. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 EAST ELEVATION, 1905
7. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 WEST ELEVATION, 1905
8. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS, 1905
9. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of drawing in office of John Calvin Stevens, 127 Prospect Street, Portland, Maine 04101 SECTION, 1905
10. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of Plate VIII (dated 1889) in John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb, Examples of American Domestic Architecture, New York, William T. Comstock, 1889 PLANS AND INTERIOR DETAILS, 1889
11. Historic American Buildings Survey Photocopy of illustration in The American Architect and Buildings News, Vol. XVI, No. 469, December 20, 1884 PERSPECTIVE BY JOHN CALVIN STEVENS


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