Item 71611 - L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Gallery, Portland, ca. 1938
- Item 71611 - L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Gallery, Portland, ca. 1938
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- Item 71611
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Image Info Portland architect John Calvin Stevens designed the L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Gallery in 1911. This Beaux-arts style building, along with the McLellan House and the Charles Shipman Payson building, comprise the Portland Museum of Art campus.
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The building is named to honor politician Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (1818-1898). Following a bequest by Lorenzo's wife, arts patron Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823-1908), the Portland Museum built the gallery.
