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Historical Items

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Item 28473

Universalist Church construction contract, Bath, 1839

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1839-05-06 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper

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Item 116313

St. Louis Church, Fort Kent, ca. 1911

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: 1911 Location: Fort Kent Media: Postcard

Item 149790

Christian Life Center, Frenchville, ca. 2000

Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 2000 Location: Frenchville Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150532

Plans for Congregational Church, Farmington, 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887 Location: Farmington Client: Congregational Church Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 150684

Roman Catholic Church for Rev. Father Bradley, Lisbon, 1899-1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1899–1922 Location: Lisbon; Lisbon Client: Roman Catholic Church of Lisbon Architect: Harry S. Coombs; Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects
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Item 150412

Proposed R.C. Church at Benedicta, 1886

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1886 Location: Benedicta Client: unknown Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

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La Basilique Lewiston

Like many cities in France, Lewiston and Auburn's skylines are dominated by a cathedral-like structure, St. Peter and Paul Church. Now designated a basilica by the Vatican, it stands as a symbol of French Catholic contributions to the State of Maine.

Site Pages

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Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… or altered more than three hundred domestic, religious, public, commercial, and industrial structures on the Portland peninsula and another one…"

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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"It provided three intense, highly structured phases, coordinated for individual and group progress, with family reunification, independence, housing…"

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Ste. Agathe Historical Society

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My Maine Stories

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Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide