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6-720: The Westin Portland Harborview is a historic hotel at 157 High Street in Portland , Maine , United States. The hotel was developed by the Rines family, Portland businessmen who owned Rines Brothers, a major local department store. It was designed by Portland architect Herbert W. Rhodes and opened in 1927 as The Eastland , the largest hotel in New England . Aviator Charles Lindbergh stayed at The Eastland after returning from his historic solo non-stop flight across

12-585: A foreclosure sale in 2000, its name was modified slightly to the Eastland Park Hotel . It kept that name through a 2004 renovation until it closed in 2011. The hotel was completely gutted and rebuilt as a modern business hotel and reopened as The Westin Portland Harborview on December 12, 2013. This article about a hotel or resort in Maine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . High Street (Portland, Maine) High Street

18-607: Is a downtown street in Portland, Maine , United States. It runs one-way for around 0.81 miles (1.30 km), from Commercial Street in the southeast to Forest Avenue in the northwest. It is one of the three main routes crossing the Portland peninsula in this direction, the other two being State Street and Franklin Street . Part of the street passes through the Spring Street Historic District and

24-767: The Atlantic Ocean . In 1946, the hotel gained attention when it refused to allow former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to stay with her dog, Fala, for the night. She instead stayed at the Royal River Cabins in Yarmouth . In 1961, The Eastland was bought by the Dunfey family. In 1965, they made it a Sheraton Hotels franchise operation, and it was renamed the Sheraton-Eastland Motor Hotel . The hotel left Sheraton in 1974 and became

30-947: The Eastland Motor Hotel . It was sold in 1980 and in 1983 was renamed the Sonesta Portland Hotel . It left Sonesta in January 1995 and was briefly renamed the Eastland Plaza Hotel , only to become the Radisson Eastland Hotel Portland six months later, in July 1995. Following a 1997 sale of the property, the hotel left Radisson in December 1999 amid legal disputes and was renamed the Eastland Hotel . Following

36-481: The city's Arts District . High Street and State Street were converted from two-way traffic in 1972. Running one-way for its entire length, High Street begins at Commercial Street , directly opposite Becky's Diner , on a steep incline. The slope is shared with Park Street, on the opposite side of the Irving gas station separating the two. The hill continues until it crests at Congress Street, which in this section

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