Keywords: Town Halls
Item 12349
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1954 Location: Topsham Media: Photograph, print
Item 12216
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1890 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, Print
Item 151018
Preliminary Sketches for Changes in Town Hall, Freeport, 1920-1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920–1930 Location: Freeport Client: Freeport Town Hall Architect: Poor & Thomas
Item 150306
Town Hall at Brunswick, Brunswick, 1882
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1882 Location: Brunswick Client: Town of Brunswick Architect: Fassett & Stevens Architects
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Bloomfield Academy
In 1842, the new Bloomfield Academy was constructed in Skowhegan. The new brick building replaced the very first Bloomfield Academy, a small wooden building that had been built in 1814 and served as the high school until 1871. After that, it housed elementary school classes until 1980.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building
"Right before this new Town Hall was occupied, the “Great Fire of 1837” decimated most of the early records thought to be safely in storage."
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall
"City Hall had a courtroom, a marshal's office, a judge's office, and a police matron's office. The City Hall is still used for meetings and official…"
Story
Saturday Evening Dances at the Westport Town Hall
by Deborah G. Greenleaf
Fond Memories of Westport Island
Story
Biddeford City Hall: an in-depth tour of this iconic building
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Visual tour and unique insights of Biddeford’s historical landmark
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
