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Dec 4, 2024

　　The main branch of the Portland Public Library is located within the 83,000-sq-ft Baxter Building, an architectural gem that cleverly utilizes vast glass installations and natural light to create an airy, refreshing reading and research area. There's a huge section for kids, and in general this makes for a nice place to relax and soak up Portland's more bookish characters.

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Fort Williams Park
Portland
　　Four miles southeast of Portland on Cape Elizabeth, 90-acre Fort Williams Park is worth visiting simply for the panoramas and picnic possibilities. Stroll around the ruins of the fort, a late-19th-century artillery base, checking out the WWII bunkers and gun emplacements that still dot the rolling lawns (a German U-boat...
Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine
Portland
　　Kids aged zero to 10 years shriek and squeal as they haul traps aboard a replica lobster boat, milk a fake cow on a model farm, operate a sound studio, or monkey around on an indoor rock-climbing wall. The highlight of this ultra-interactive, upbeat place (more a play center than...
Main Library
Portland
　　The main branch of the Portland Public Library is located within the 83,000-sq-ft Baxter Building, an architectural gem that cleverly utilizes vast glass installations and natural light to create an airy, refreshing reading and research area. There's a huge section for kids, and in general this makes for a nice...
Portland Breakwater Light
Portland
　　Portland is graced by a handful of handsome lights, including the 1875 Portland Breakwater Light with its Corinthian columns. Dubbed the 'Bug Light' because of its tiny size, it sits in a small park in South Portland with a panoramic view of downtown across the harbor. 　　To reach it, cross...
Portland Museum of Art
Portland
　　Founded in 1882, this well-respected museum houses an outstanding collection of American artists. Maine artists, including Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Louise Nevelson and Andrew Wyeth, are particularly well represented. You'll also find a few works by European masters, including Monet, Degas, Picasso and Renoir. 　　The collections are spread across three...
Portland Head Light
Portland
　　Fort Williams Park, on Cape Elizabeth, has rolling lawns dotted with bunkers and gun emplacements. Within the park stands the beloved, and much-photographed, Portland Head Light, the oldest of Maine’s 52 functioning lighthouses. It was commissioned by President George Washington in 1791 and staffed until 1989, when machines took over....
Tate House Museum
Portland
　　This home preserves the Colonial residence of George Tate, Maine's last British 'mast agent' (mast agents procured New England white pine trees as construction material for the British navy). Tate's elegant home is the only one in Portland that dates from pre-Revolutionary times that is open to the public. Besides...
Victoria Mansion
Portland
　　This Italianate palace, whose exterior would work well in a Tim Burton movie, dates back to 1860. Inside it's sumptuously decorated with rich furniture, frescoes, paintings, carpets, gilt, exotic woods and stone. The former owner of the house was a hotelier in New Orleans, and many details, like a stained-glass...
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