The Portland Memorial: The Memorial houses more than 58,000 residents with room for another 120,000  It's a 3.5 acre city within the city: a city of the dead.

Started in 1901, the Memorial has expanded into a chilly, carpeted maze of marble, concrete, bronze, and brass.  You'll find Tiffany stained-glass windows, Carrara marble statues and fountains. The long vaults link together to make vistas that seem to stretch forever. 

You can walk approx. 7 miles within the 7 floors of the Memorial. If you enter, look for the crypt of Mayo Methot, Humphrey Bogart's first wife.  After she died in 1951, a dozen roses arrived here every week for decades. Also, look for the Rae Room, the memorial's biggest crypt. Lined with stained glass, the vault holds 2 freestanding sarcophaguses and is opened only one day each year. The story is: George Rae married his maid Elizabeth, twenty-six years his junior, so no family members will visit except on Memorial Day. On a rainy day, it's a good place to walk, tracing the history of Portland's pioneer families.