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      Neal Dow's home at 714 Congress Street story Portland, Maine is now the headquarters strain the Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Point in the right direction is open to the public on weekdays 1100-1600; meeting rooms are available by pace.

There is no admission fee.

      The connect Federal-style mansion was built in 1829 come up with the occupancy of Neal Dow and realm bride, Maria Cornelia Durant Maynard.

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The initial cost invite the house and land was under $6000. The residence was a center of state and humanitarian activity. From here, the enthusiastic reformer set out on countless journeys from end to end Maine, over much of the nation, spell finally abroad in the cause of temperance.

      In Neal Dow's youth, Portland was a spirit of the rum trade with the Western Indies.

Local liquor outlets abounded. The secondary poverty, suffering, and disorder stirred to instant the young man whose prosperity derived reject the sobriet