Keywords: meeting-house
Item 22391
Tory Hill Meeting House, Buxton, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Buxton Media: Glass negative
Item 26613
Thomaston Academy and Congregational Meeting House, Thomaston, ca. 1855
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Thomaston Media: Engraving, lithograph
Item 67821
Assessor's Record, 81 Oak Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Friends Meeting House Use: Church
Item 65231
77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: The Story of the Heywood Tavern
The story of the Heywood Tavern in Skowhegan.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park
"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Old North Church
"… Through General Knox’s involvement, a Town Meeting House was constructed in 1796 on High Street, and was the first house of worship in the town…"
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
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
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.
