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In the photo on the left, a view of Dana Court from Bridge Street in the 1800s, the wooden building on the left is the carriage house for an old brick mansion that stood on Bridge Street at Dana Court. This mansion was referred to as the Bean Mansion and was demolished in 1974. Buildings behind it on Dana Court were mill houses occupied by employees of the Westbrook Manufacturing Co., which was located on the right side between Dana Court and the Presumpscot River. The large brick building to the right was a warehouse built in the 1850s for Westbrook Manufacturing Co. In later years this building was occupied by the C. E. Noyes Tire Retreading Co. That went out of business and the building remained vacant for years before being destroyed by a spectacular fire in 1993. The photo on right is a current one of Dana Court with apartment houses on the left and on the righ, the stairway for the parking garage adjacent to the Riverfront Plaza office building, which is out of view.
Research and photos courtesy of Mike Sanphy
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