LC Subject Heading: Historic buildings
Item 161
Portland Observatory Poster, ca. 1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1937 Location: Portland Media: Paper
Item 6852
Bailey House, Wiscasset, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Wiscasset Media: Photographic print
Item 151513
The Portland Club heating plans, Portland, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Portland Client: The Portland Club Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 151583
Skowhegan municipal building, Skowhegan, 1907-1908
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1907–1908 Location: Skowhegan Client: Town of Skowhegan 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.
