Established in the seventeenth century and expanded over generations, Eastern Cemetery preserves burial, maritime, military, epidemic, and community histories within a layered urban landscape.
Built in 1807 as a commercial maritime signal tower, the Portland Observatory allowed Captain Lemuel Moody to identify incoming ships and alert subscribing merchants before radio made the system obsolete.
Completed around 1860 as a summer residence for Ruggles and Olive Morse, Victoria Mansion preserves extraordinary architecture, interiors, objects, and connections to New Orleans wealth and the domestic slave economy.
Built for Peleg Wadsworth in the 1780s and later home to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s family, the brick house documents domestic life, politics, literature, urban growth, and preservation.