LC Subject Heading: Churches
Item 12362
Old Congregational Church, Brunswick, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Location: Brunswick Media: Lithograph
Item 20476
Congregational Church, Brunswick, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1820 Location: Brunswick Media: Lithograph
Item 151640
Small Baptist Church, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects
Item 150344
Southport Methodist Church, Southport, 1904
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Southport Client: Southport Methodist Church Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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.