Time and Temperature Building | |
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![]() The building viewed from Center Street | |
Location within Maine | |
Former names | Chapman Building |
General information | |
Type | High-rise building |
Architectural style | Neoclassical |
Location | Portland, Maine, United States |
Address | 477 Congress Street |
Coordinates | 43°39′26″N 70°15′36″W / 43.6571°N 70.2599°W |
Completed | 1924 |
Renovated | 1996 |
Owner | TT Maine Venture LLC |
Height | 184 ft (56 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 14 |
Lifts/elevators | 3 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Herbert W. Rhodes |
References | |
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The Time and Temperature Building, originally known as the Chapman Building, and officially 477 Congress Street, is a 14-story office building on Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. The building, which replaced Preble House (a successor to the mansion of Commodore Edward Preble),[3] is named after a large three-sided four-element eggcrate display screen on the roof that flashes the local time and temperature. It was built in 1924 as a 12-story building, with Maine's first indoor shopping center on its ground floor.[4][5] It sits across Preble Street from the 10-story Fidelity Trust Building.[5] Until the 1970s, these buildings were Portland's only skyscrapers.[6]
The building, one of Portland's tallest, is visible from miles away, including from Peaks Island across the harbor, and it has become a landmark to Portlanders who depend on it for the sign's time and temperature, but also mariners sailing into Portland harbor.
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