Moulton Street

{{Short description|Downtown street in Portland, Maine}}

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Moulton Street is a historic downtown street in Portland, Maine, United States. Situated in the heart of the Old Port, it runs for around {{Convert|233|ft|}}, from Fore Street in the northwest to Commercial Street in the southeast. One-way from Fore Street, its surface is cobblestoned, with brick sidewalks. The street is named for William H. Moulton, president of the Cumberland Bank, which stood at the corner of Moulton and Commercial.[https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=books_documents The Origins of the Street Names of the City of Portland, Maine as of 1995] – Norm and Althea Green, Portland Public Library (1995)

At the corner of Fore and Moulton is a Portland Freedom Trail marker for the anti-slavery bookstore and printshop run by Daniel Colesworthy. The Mariner's Church, built in 1828 in the Greek Revival style, stands at the northern corner of Fore and Moulton. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.{{NRISref|2009a}} C. H. Robinson,{{Cite book |last=Maine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWxCAQAAMAAJ&dq=c.h.+robinson+portland+maine&pg=PA576 |title=Acts and Resolves Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Maine |date=1919 |publisher=Stevens & Sayward. |pages=576 |language=en}} a paper company owned by Charles Henry Robinson (1839–after 1926),{{Cite web |title=7-9 Moulton Street, Portland, 1924 |url=https://www.mainememory.net/record/64456 |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=Maine Memory Network |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Hodgkins |first=Theodore Roosevelt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yH-Fof3AoUC&dq=c.h.+robinson+portland+maine&pg=PA221 |title=Brief Biographies, Maine: A Biographical Dictionary of Who's who in Maine |date=1926 |publisher=Lewiston journal Company |pages=221 |language=en}} formerly occupied the entire block, including 9 Moulton Street, which became the home of Mexicali Blues for 28 years.{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=Featured Property: 9 Moulton St. |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2020/05/05/featured-property-9-moulton-st/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=Press Herald}} Old Port Tavern occupied part of the Mariner's Church building between 1973 and 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-30 |title=Portland's Old Port about to lose a 50-year-old mainstay |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2022/12/29/portlands-old-port-about-to-lose-a-50-year-old-mainstay/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Press Herald}}

At the head of Moulton Street, 375 Fore Street{{Cite journal |date=1942-04-27 |title=375 Fore Street, 1942 |url=https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/474 |journal=Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives}} was the home of Bull Feeney's, which closed in 2023 after 21 years in business.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-22 |title=Portland's Bull Feeney's pub announces closure |url=https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/money/business/bull-feeneys-announces-closure-business/97-9055c59c-bfc0-4370-b038-8c35eb04e3cf |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=newscentermaine.com |language=en-US}}

Long Wharf, the home of DiMillo's Floating Restaurant, stands across Commercial Street from Moulton Street. Wharf Street,{{Cite web |date=2015-07-13 |title=Flashback: Moulton Street in Portland's Old Port, 1980 and 2015 |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/13/flashback-moulton-street-portlands-old-port-1980-2015/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=Press Herald}} meanwhile, runs southwest from Moulton Street to Union Street, crossing Dana Street en route.

Moulton Street has been noted for its boutique stores.[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/18/travel/shoppers-world-treasures-of-a-maine-port.html "SHOPPER'S WORLD; Treasures of a Maine Port"] – The New York Times, October 18, 1992[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/travel/whats-doing-in-portland.html "What's Doing In; Portland"] – The New York Times, July 7, 1991

File:NORTH FRONT AND WEST SIDE - Mariners' Church, Fore Street, between Moulton and Market Streets, Portland, Cumberland County, ME HABS ME,3-PORT,21-1.tif|C. H. Robinson Company in the Mariner's Church, viewed from Fore Street (mid-20th century)

File:PFT Moulton Street.jpg|Portland Freedom Trail marker referencing Daniel Colesworthy

File:Moulton Street 2024.jpg|Looking northwest along Moulton Street from Commercial Street (2024)

File:Portland old harbour 08.07.2012 13-02-36.jpg|Wharf Street from Moulton Street (2012)