Keywords: Town buildings
Item 12349
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1954 Location: Topsham Media: Photograph, print
Item 33783
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
Item 150529
Alteration & School Addition to the Town Hall, Ellsworth, ca. 1953
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1953 Location: Ellsworth Client: Town of Ellsworth Architect: Alonzo J. Harriman Inc Architects Engineers
Item 150052
Penobscot Shoe Company building, Old Town, 1952-1954
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1952–1954
Location: Old Town
Client: Penobscot Shoe Company
Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
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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: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan
Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building
"1908Patten Free Library The earlier building at the Grants Building site was the Old City Hall which was built in 1837 as Town Hall before Bath…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5
"The building was built with bricks and had a slate roof. Slate was used a lot because of the slate quarry in Monson."
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
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
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.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: The Elms - Stephen Longfellow's Gorham Farm
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
On April 3, 1761 Stephen Longfellow II signed the deed for the first 100 acre purchase of land that he would own in Gorham, Maine. His son Stephen III (Judge Longfellow) would build a home on that property which still stands to this day. Judge Longfellow would become one of the most prominent citizens in Gorhams history and one of the earliest influences on his grandson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work as a poet.
This exhibit examines why the Longfellows arrived in Gorham, Judge Longfellow's role in the history of the town, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's vacations in the country which may have influenced his greatest work, and the remains of the Longfellow estate still standing in Gorham today.
