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North Deering


Portland, Maine is home to many neighborhoods.

Portland's Arts District is based around Congress Street in downtown Portland. The District includes the Portland Museum of Art, the Children's Museum of Maine, the Maine College of Art (MECA) and the State Theatre. It is a mixed use neighborhood with both apartments and commercial establishments.

Back Cove is a neighborhood off of Portland's peninsula and downtown areas. With views of the Portland skyline across Back Cove, it borders the neighborhoods of Deering Center, North Deering, East Deering, Rosemont, and Oakdale.

Neighborhood boundaries are: Washington Avenue (North), Baxter Boulevard (East), Forest Avenue (South), and Canco Road (West).

Within the boundaries of the Back Cove neighborhood are Woodford's Corner, Ocean Avenue, Payson Park, Cheverus High School (private Jesuit school), and Ocean Avenue School (Portland Public Schools).

Back Cove estuary basin in Portland, Maine

Deering Highlands is a residential neighborhood on a hill generally bordered by Woodford Street to the north; Stevens Avenue to the west; Deering Street to the east and the sloping hillside of streets in the same area, south of Brighton Avenue. The map on Barry & Anderson's _Deering: A Social and Architectural History_, p. 15 is ambiguous as to the neighborhood's precise borders.


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