Greater Portland Landmarks

The four properties, now owned by MaineHealth, will enable the museum to add much-needed parking and free up more of the museum building for gallery space.

Awards from the preservation nonprofit gave praise to adaptive reuse, contextual new construction, storytelling, placemaking and preservation through policy, trades and stewardship.

The museum is planning to take down the building and replace it with a temporary park until the new building can be built, but Greater Portland Landmarks is asking for a delay until all plans and fundraising are finalized.

Greater Portland Landmarks said it wouldn’t pursue further legal action opposing the plan, which includes razing an existing building for the museum’s expansion.

Greater Portland Landmarks has lost it lawsuit to prohibit the Portland Museum of Art from razing the former home of the Children's Museum & Theater of Maine.

As some people had expected, the preservation group has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the city's removal of a historical protection for the property.

A new executive director of Greater Portland Landmarks has been hired from New York City, as the historic preservation group waits for the Portland City Council to take up a controversial plan that would demolish 142 Free St.

The Portland Museum of Art, which has proposed a $100 million expansion, has sought to tear down the former Children's Museum building next door.

The demolition of 142 Free St. is a key part of the Portland Museum of Art's planned $100 million expansion. But Greater Portland Landmarks argues: “It is critical to maintain the integrity of the district and the buildings within it."

Laird Yock is co-founder of Philanthropy Works, a website providing training for fundraising professionals. He served for 20 years in several senior fundraising positions.