The Longfellow Hotel | 754 Congress Street | Portland

[matt.greeson]

 

[matt.greeson]

 

[Corey]

Tandem and Longfellow Hotel Construction, Congress Street by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

 

[matt.greeson]

Rooms come with great view of Tandem line.

 

[lunardinosaur]

Tandem could use a paint job.

 

[cneal]

Man, the Tandem building looks really slick from the side. Too bad they have to have concrete crash barriers to keep drivers from crashing through their windows (cars ruin everything)

 

[Max]

Man, the Tandem building looks really slick from the side. Too bad they have to have concrete crash barriers to keep drivers from crashing through their windows (cars ruin everything)

My recollection is that there was a dry cleaner in here previously, and then I'm assuming this site was a gas station at some point in the past??

 

[Portlander]

Property had a multi unit residential building in poor condition (tax assessor comments) back in 1924. I can't remember what gas station brand was located there prior to the dry cleaners, maybe markhb will know.

Maine Memory Network photo

 

[markhb]

Thanks for putting me on the spot! ISTR that Dick Stewart had a couple of stations up there, a Shell and maybe a Mobil? One was where the other new apartment block is now, and possibly this was his other? Just guessing, though... It's beena long time

 

[Portlander]

Sorry, but you're my historical go to guy when I can't remember! I didn't frequent that part of Congress Street during my younger days and I would use the Exxon on Park Avenue by the Expo for gas and free road maps when I was in town.

 

[markhb]

Sorry, but you're my historical go to guy when I can't remember! I didn't frequent that part of Congress Street during my younger days and I would use the Exxon on Park Avenue by the Expo for gas and free road maps when I was in town.

Hamilton's. That one I knew better; ISTR it was originally an American / Amoco before they pulled out of the East.