Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"… by 4’ wide by 7’ high, the area between the outer brick walls and the cells being 11’ wide and 25’ high."

Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.

"… soon found, A building made from wood with a brick foundation, Which was the start of a Hallowell sensation."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"The regular building was made of wood with a brick foundation. The building had parts built onto it in 1894, expanding it all the way to the railroad…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Cunningham School

"The building was constructed of brick and was intended to be indestructible, but it caught fire in 1921. It was rebuilt in 1922."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"The Bath Bank building, the first brick building in downtown Bath, was built in 1810 with large columns facing Centre Street."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"The buildings are three-story, brick structures with flat roofs. This block was built on the site of the Columbian Hotel and the Columbian Hall…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… from one largely of wooden buildings to one of brick. The fire not only affected many businesses, but also severely affected many people's lives."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"In 1975, a brick extension was added to the east side. The current building is made of brick on a granite foundation and is notable for its granite…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"It is a fireproof structure made of limestone and bricks with a granite foundation. There are columns at its entrance to define the curved front…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"The Ledyard Block is a brick building that combined elements of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles of architecture."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Built around 1850 by Oliver Moses, the brick building at 94 Front Street is a three-story building designed originally in Greek Revival style…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"It was built of brick and granite with the architecture being Greek Revival. The Sagadahock House dominated the street because it was the largest…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"The reason this is true is because he helped make the bricks for the first school ever built in Lincoln."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… produced a new central business district of brick buildings beginning in the late 1830s. Survivors of that fire that remain in the current downtown…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"The actual building was started from a $7,000 donation by Mary B. Ingersoll in 1923. Ira Fish's gristmill used to be where the library is today."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"The new station was constructed completely out of brick, as protection against fires. The people of Bath were very proud of the station."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"The building was made of wood with a brick foundation. Charles Weiner became the president of this establishment, and David Haskell was the treasurer."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"The Church Block is a three-story building. Details on the Church Block that are still there are women's faces cast into the iron columns."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"The original building was made of brick with wood dentils and very detailed window borders; the foundation was made of granite."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"The brick on the outside made it very challenging. Sending their men inside in a raging fire such as this was too risky, and that unfortunately was…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"It was a nice brick store, but as the years went on the location became inadequate for Sears. When Bath rejected a massive urban renewal project in…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."