Houses and mansions in Portland
This tour visits places the Register records as dwellings, among them single houses, rowhouses and mansions. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk. More of the Portland register is houses than any other kind of building, 21 listings of it in all.
The stops that carry a construction date run from 1868 to 1903. 13 stops, 2.1 miles end to end. Of the stops, 2 are National Historic Landmarks.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Oct 16, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Daniel How House23 Danforth St.Building · listed 1973start
- 2Charles Q. Clapp House97 Spring St.Building · listed 19720.2 mi from stop 1
- 3McLellan-Sweat MansionNHL111 High St.Building · listed 1970290 ft from stop 2
- 4Morse-Libby MansionNHL109 Danforth St.Building · listed 19700.2 mi from stop 3
- 5William Minott House45 Park St.Building · listed 1979255 ft from stop 4
- 6Joseph Holt Ingraham House51 State St.Building · listed 1973389 ft from stop 5
- 7Nathaniel Dyer House168 York St.Building · listed 1987340 ft from stop 6
- 8A. B. Butler House4 Walker St.Building · built 1868 · listed 19740.5 mi from stop 7
- 9Williston-West Church and Parish House32 Thomas St.Building · listed 1980422 ft from stop 8
- 10John Calvin Stevens House52 Bowdoin St.Building · listed 19730.2 mi from stop 9
- 11The Gothic House387 Spring St.Building · listed 1974298 ft from stop 10
- 12Harrison B. Brown House400 Danforth St.Building · listed 19800.2 mi from stop 11
- 13Adam P. Leighton House261 Western PromenadeBuilding · built 1903 · listed 19820.5 mi from stop 12
2.1 straight-line miles over 12 legs.
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 13 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Local history books for Portland
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in PortlandJohn William Babin and Allan M. Levinsky, 2015Find at Bookshop.org
Maine travel guides
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