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This 127-year-old ‘gothic grandma’ hotel is one of Portland’s cheaper places to stay
PORTLAND, Maine — Thanks to a tourist-driven building boom in recent years, this city now boasts more than 6,000 hotel rooms. Most are modern, cookie-cutter affairs housed in concrete-and-glass cubes stacked along the waterfront. But the oldest and …