Portland, Maine's legendary Asylum was demolished and reborn twice the size. Aura at 121 Center Street, in the heart of the downtown peninsula, opened in April 2017 after a 9.1-million-dollar project that razed and rebuilt the building that had housed the Asylum nightclub since 1997 - the WBRC-designed reconstruction adding two storeys, a balcony level and state-of-the-art production, and doubling concert capacity to about 1,000. The result slots precisely into the gap in the city's venue ladde.....

The largest indoor venue in southern Maine, Cross Insurance Arena is a multi-purpose arena in the heart of downtown Portland. Opened in 1977 and known for many years as the Cumberland County Civic Center, the building underwent a major renovation completed in 2014 that modernised its facilities and added its current name, securing its place as the region's premier venue for sport, concerts and large gatherings. The arena holds around six to seven thousand spectators depending on the configurati.....

Anchoring the centre of Portland, Maine, Cross Insurance Arena is the region's principal indoor arena and a hub for sport and entertainment in the southern part of the state. The venue traces its history to 1977, when it opened as the Cumberland County Civic Center, and a comprehensive renovation in the early 2010s brought it thoroughly up to date while giving it the name it carries today. With a capacity in the region of seven thousand, the arena is designed for versatility, its central floor .....

Two planes flew a salute over the opening football game in 1931, and nearly a century later a professional soccer club has made the same ground its home. Fitzpatrick Stadium at 239 Park Avenue in Portland, Maine - not Oregon - is the city's 6,000-seat multi-purpose stadium, sitting in the civic sports campus that also holds Hadlock Field, the Portland Exposition Building and Troubh Ice Arena, across Deering Avenue from Deering Oaks Park. Built in 1930-31 as Portland Stadium on the footprint of .....

There is a 37-foot green wall in left field, a Citgo sign, a giant Coke bottle - and a lighthouse that rises from centre field every time the home team homers. Hadlock Field, at 271 Park Avenue in Portland, Maine, is the home of the Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, and quite deliberately the most Fenway-like ballpark in the minor leagues. The park opened on 18 April 1994, built for about 3 million dollars on the site of a high-school field named for beloved Portl.....

Portland, Maine's newest mid-size music hall opened in March 2026 with a mission statement in its capacity: 800 people, filling the gap between the city's clubs and its civic auditorium. Live at Madrid's, at 1945 Congress Street near the Portland International Jetport, converted the longtime Italian Heritage Center into a purpose-renovated concert venue. The backstory is a family bet on live music: the venue takes its name from Madrid's, the events business of the Regali family, who bought the .....

A publishing magnate gave his hometown one of the largest pipe organs on earth - 1912 Portland got an instrument that would cost five million dollars to replace today. Merrill Auditorium, at 20 Myrtle Street inside Portland City Hall in Maine, is the 1,908-seat civic hall built around the mighty Kotzschmar Memorial Organ. The hall rose from a fire: when Portland's previous City Hall burned in 1908, the rebuilt 1912 building included a grand auditorium, and Cyrus H.K. Curtis - the Portland-born .....

The chairs are cushioned, free-standing and arranged close to the stage on purpose - this is a listening room, and the room is the point. One Longfellow Square, upstairs at 181 State Street in Portland, Maine, is the city's dedicated nonprofit home for acoustic, folk, jazz, blues and roots music. The building carries its own arc: the 19th-century structure at the corner of Longfellow Square stood abandoned from 1994 until Portland Performing Arts bought it in 1998 and spent nearly 800,000 dolla.....

A florist shop on the first floor of a parking garage became the busiest stage in Maine's largest city. Portland House of Music and Events - PHOME to locals - occupies 25 Temple Street on the edge of Portland, Maine's Old Port, a two-level, roughly 300-capacity venue that opened in June 2015 and programs live music most nights of the week. Founder Ken Bell built it as a successor to The Big Easy, the Market Street club he ran for nearly a decade until his lease expired in 2013 - a closure local.....

Maine's home for adventurous art was built inside a former Wendy's, and 500 people came to opening night. SPACE at 538 Congress Street in Portland, Maine opened on First Friday, 2 August 2002, founded by Jon Courtney and Todd Bernard as a volunteer-built contemporary arts centre in the historic Durant Block on the city's main downtown artery. The nonprofit model matured fast: 501(c)(3) status in 2003, purchase of its landmark 19th-century building through a 2015-16 capital campaign, and grants .....