<p>The Canaan Chapel  is a historic chapel on Canaan Road in Barrington, New Hampshire. Built in 1881, it is a typical example of a rural Free Will Baptist church of the mid-19th century, exhibitng modest elements of Greek Revival design despite a late construction date for that style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Canaan Chapel is located in western Barrington, on the north side of Canaan Road (United States Route 202) at its junction with Canaan Back Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. The interior of the building consists of a vestibule, with a small room off to the right, and an auditorium space measuring about 24 by. There is a raised stage at the far end, at whose center stands a raised pulpit. An 1890 organ manufactured by the Boston Organ Company occupies the corner to the left of the pulpit. Most of the room is occupied by the original pews. The property includes a c. 1898 horse shed.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1881, and is one of a small number of surviving area Free Will Baptist churches of the period. The Free Will Baptist denomination was founded in nearby New Durham in 1780, and spread through the rural communities of eastern New Hampshire. Most of the surviving chuches of the group were built in the mid-19th century; this one is a particularly rare late example, but it exhibits modest elements of the Greek Revival also found on older buildings. The building has been little altered; the main alteration has been the introduction of electricity (including conversion of the original chandelier), and the replacement of the wood stove.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Church is a historic church at 218 Central Avenue in Dover, New Hampshire. The church was designed and built by Captain James Davis in 1825, inspired by the Federal style designs of Charles Bulfinch, Asher Benjamin, and Alexander Parris. It is the fifth home to a parish that was first gathered in 1633 at Dover Point. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Dovers First Parish Church is located at the southern end of Dovers commercial downtown area, on the west side of Central Avenue (New Hampshire Route 9) at its junction with Church Street. It is a tall single-story masonry structure, built with load-bearing brick walls and a gabled roof with a stepped gable end at the front. A broad three-bay section projects from the front facade, with a fully pedimented gable and stepped gable parapet with a heavy baroque volute ornament adjacent to the tower base. The tower rises, its front face flush with the projection, to include a square clock stage and an open octagonal belfry topped by a lantern stage and steeple. Window bays are tall and topped by rounded arches. The front facade has three entrances, each topped by a stone lintel. The interior has a mid-to-late 19th century appearance, with slip pews.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1825 by James Davis, a local master joiner. Its design is based on the original appearance of St. Johns Church in Portsmouth, which was a design of Alexander Parris and also originally featured the volutes found here. The Portsmouth churchs design is in turn based on works of Charles Bulfinch. This church&#39;s steeple is based on another church, located in Newburyport, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation, founded in 1633 at Dover Point, is the oldest in state of New Hampshire. The site of its second church, built in 1654, is also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Church Site-Dover Point is a historic church site on Dover Point Road in Dover, New Hampshire. It is the site of the second meetinghouse of the First Parish Church, a congregation established in 1633. Built in 1653 and demolished in the 18th century, its well-preserved site is one of the few colonial church sites known to be fortified against native attacks, with a log palisade and earthworks. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Dover Point is a neck of land in southernmost Dover, separating the Piscataqua River from the Bellamy River and the Great Bay. Its southern tip, Hilton Point, is where Dover&#39;s first settlers arrived from Salem, Massachusetts in 1633. Their first colonial meeting house was built at that point, and its site has been obliterated by the construction of the Spaulding Turnpike. The second meetinghouse was built further north on the point in 1653, nearer where the settlers had established their first village.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was, according to surviving documentation, 40 ft long and 26 ft wide. Sometime between 1667 and 1675, it was fortified by the construction of an embankment with a log palisade on top. This defense was apparently successful in helping provide for the communitys defense in King Philips War. In 1713 a new meetinghouse was built at "Pine Hill", where Dover&#39;s center is now located, and services were halted at this location around 1720. The building was demolished later in the 18th century and the site abandoned, but its location remained well known, and was documented in local histories. In 1889 it was deeded back to the congregation, which has maintained it since.</p><br>
<p>The site is located on the west side of Dover Point Road, opposite its junction with Forsythia Drive. It is marked by a sign and its road-facing edge is lined by a low stone retaining wall. The grassy area of the site encompasses the foundations of the church and the earthworks that surrounded it. The earthworks was a roughly rectangular embankment, from which there were projections at two of the corners. These projections are where elevated observation sconces were built.</p><br>
<p>The Free Will Baptist Church is a historic church on Ridge Road in New Durham, New Hampshire. Built in 1819, it is considered the mother church of the Free Will Baptist movement, although it was not built until ten years after the death of founder Benjamin Randall. New Durham is where Randall rose to prominence, and where the church&#39;s teachings and governance were organized in 1780. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Free Will Baptist Church stands in New Durham&#39;s rural Ridge area, on the north side of Ridge Road east of its junction with Berry Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and claboarded exterior. It features modest Greek Revival and Italianate detailing, including corner pilasters, and a single central door flanked by pilasters and topped by a simple entablature. The two-stage tower was added in 1869; its detailing, including a box cornice and Italianate brackets, echo details on the main block. The interior includes a late 19th-century pressed metal ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1819, and is considered the mother church of the Free Will Baptist movement. It was in this area that Benjamin Randall (1749-1808) rose to prominence. A native of New Castle, New Hampshire, Randall, an itinerant evangelical Baptist, was disfellowshipped by more conventional Baptists for his objections to certain Calvinist teachings. He gained a following in eastern New Hampshire and southern Maine. The first organizational meetings of the Free Will Baptists took place in New Durham in 1780; this church was built eleven years after Randall&#39;s death.</p><br>
<p>The New Durham Meetinghouse and Pound are a historic colonial meeting house and town pound on Old Bay Road in New Durham, New Hampshire. Built in 1770, the wood-frame meeting house stands at was until about 1850 the center of New Durham, and was originally used for both civic and religious purposes. Now a public park, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The old New Durham Meetinghouse stands in central southern New Durham, on the south side of Old Bay Road just northwest of its junction with Davis Crossing Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is very simply styled, with plain corner boards and window surrounds. The main facade has a center entrance, also with simple framing, flanked by sash windows. Side elevations have four windows each. The interior retains only modest elements of its original appearance. Also on the property are the town&#39;s first burial ground, and a rectangular stone animal pound.</p><br>
<p>The town of New Durham was chartered in 1762, its settlers formally obligated to build a meeting house by 1768. This structure was erected in 1770 to satisfy the requirement. It was originally built as a two-story structure, but after the church congregation moved to its own building, the town voted to reduce it to a single story in 1838. It served as the town&#39;s principal civic meeting space until the construction of its present town hall in 1908. It was sold, along with the 1809 animal pound, to a local farmer, who used the building for storage. It was given back to the town by his heirs in 1979. The building was reported to be structurally unsound in 2014, but funding had been secured to stabilize it.</p><br>
<p>The Dover Religious Society of Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 141 Central Avenue  in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Built in 1768 for a congregation established in the 17th century, it is the only surviving 18th-century Quaker meetinghouse in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dover Friends Meetinghouse is located south of downtown Dover on the east side of Central Avenue, nearly surrounded by elements of Pine Hill Cemetery. It is a two-story wood frame structure, 50 ft long and 37 ft wide. A projecting vestibule with simple Greek Revival styling is a 19th-century alteration. Features distinctive to 18th-century Quaker meetinghouses include paired entrances on the long facade (for gender segregation), the removable partition wall at the center of the main chamber, and a crosswise bench for the congregation&#39;s elders.</p><br>
<p>Quakers first began to arrive in the Dover area in 1662, and were met with strong resistance from the dominant Puritan authorities. They persisted, and had by 1680 established a congregation with a meetinghouse on Dover Neck. This meetinghouse, built in 1768, was that congregation&#39;s third. The Dover congregation became the "mother congregation" for a number of new ones established throughout New Hampshire and southwestern Maine. This building was the scene of regular worship until 1912, when dwindling membership prompted its closure. It continued to be maintained and used irregularly until 1955, when regular services began again.</p><br>
<p>Acworth Congregational Church  is a historic church at the end of the town common in Acworth, New Hampshire. The white clapboarded church was built in 1821, with alterations at several points in the 19th century. Its design is clearly inspired by the Congregation Church of Templeton, Massachusetts, although attribution of this churchs design to Elias Carter, the architect of the Templeton church, is disputed. The structure is basically rectangular, with a projecting entry section that has its own triangular pediment  and pilasters, matching those at the corners of the main block. A four-stage tower  rises above the main facade. The churchs interior decoration is mainly the result of a redecoration in the 1880s. The building is now maintained by a local non-profit organization.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Lempster Meetinghouse  is a historic meeting house and town hall on Lempster Street in Lempster, New Hampshire. The wood frame structure was built in 1794, and is one of a modest number of New England meeting houses to survive from the 18th century, and one of a very small number with twin porches. It was built at town expense, serving as both a town hall and church until 1822. At that time it was divested of its religious functions and moved about 1 mi to its present location. The upper gallery level was extended to create a second floor, and the box pews and pulpit were removed. A bell tower was added . It has since then served a variety of community functions, include Grange activities, the local library, a high school academy, and a local theatrical company.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Claremont City Hall, also known as the Claremont Opera House, is located at 58 Opera House Square in the heart of Claremont, New Hampshire, United States. The monumental Italian Renaissance Revival two-story brick and brownstone building was designed by New York City architect Charles A. Rich, an alumnus of nearby Dartmouth College, and built between 1895 and 1897. Hira R. Beckwith, an architect in Claremont, was the contractor. Many of the construction materials for the building came from the surrounding region. The foundation consists of Green Mountain rock, and the base was dressed Connecticut River brownstone from Springfield, Massachusetts. The major part of the exterior is built from nearly one million bricks from Lebanon, New Hampshire. The original design of the building included first floor that housed a meeting space seating 700, while the upper floor housed the "opera house" , which seated nearly 1,000 and included a stage adequate for mounting theatrical productions. Rich and Beckwith spent two years and $62,000 to construct the building as a regional center for entertainment, cultural, community and political events. The building was dedicated on June 22, 1897.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1900s the Claremont Opera House was the entertainment center for the Upper Connecticut River Valley area. Much of this early success was due to Harry Eaton, local druggist and manager of the Opera House for 32 years. Eaton arranged for theatrical and musical acts, vaudeville minstrel shows, and films to perform in Claremont. John Philip Sousa&#39;s Band</p><br>
<p>of Fifty, with three soloists, notably appeared in concert for a 1906 Saturday matinee.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium has a frescoed ceiling and a decorative wall frieze culminating with a proscenium arch adorned with a combination of basswood, painted cream, and a gold leafed molded plaster-work in high relief. Much of the gold leaf is original. There is a circular multicolored fresco of the New Hampshire state seal seated above the proscenium arch. Total seating capacity for the auditorium is 783. In 1960, the first floor of the building was partitioned to house additional city offices, and the opera house was closed in 1963 citing lack of use. A restoration committee was created in the 1970s to spearhead the opera house&#39;s restoration and modernization, and after a lengthy awareness and fundraising campaign, it was renovated and reopened in 1979. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Today, the entire building is seen as a historic treasure. In addition to city offices and the performance space, the Claremont Police Department, District Court, City offices, and Claremont City Council chambers are also located on premises. The Opera House itself, now run by a Board of Directors, continues to present a wide variety of local, regional, and touring entertainment to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Allenstown Meeting House  is a historic meeting house on Deerfield Road in Allenstown, New Hampshire. It is a single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, resting on a granite foundation. It has a heavy timber frame and is sheathed in wooden clapboards. The main facade faces the road to the south, and is five bays wide, with a central door flanked by two windows on either side. The interior has retained its original box pews and pulpit. The northwest corner of the building was damaged by arson fire in 1985, but has been sensitively restored. The meeting house was built in 1815, and served as the town&#39;s main civic and religious building from then until 1886, when it was abandoned for both purposes. It is the only surviving single-story meeting house of the period in New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Arch of Tilton, sometimes referred to as Tilton&#39;s Folly, is a historic arch on Elm Street in Northfield, New Hampshire, United States, on a hill overlooking the town of Tilton. The 55 ft was built by Charles Tilton in 1882; it was modeled after the Arch of Titus in Rome, its surfaces, however, modeled in the rustication that was currently a fashionable feature of Romanesque revival building. The Memorial Arch of Tilton was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Tilton was inspired to create a triumphal arch in 1881, when he visited Rome. While there he saw the Arch of Titus and decided to create a similar structure in his town to "symbolize the victories of peace rather than those of war." Ironically he chose to build this monument to peace on top of an old Indian fort at the apex of a local hill.</p><br>
<p>Construction was completed on the Memorial Arch in 1882 at a price of 50,000 dollars.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1980s the monument had been added to the National Register of Historic Places,</p><br>
<h2>The arch</h2><br>
<p>The Memorial Arch of Tilton is 55 ft tall, 40 ft wide, and is constructed of Concord granite. It sits atop a hill 150 ft above the Winnipesaukee River, and its foundation goes into the earth 16 ft. At its base is a 50-ton sarcophagus and red granite "Numidian lion." Tilton intended to be buried in this monument, but was not. He was instead buried roughly a mile west, in Park Cemetery in Tilton.</p><br>
<p>When the Memorial Arch was built, gas lamps were placed at each corner of the monument to illuminate it. Because there were no electric street lights in Tilton at this time, the arch was the only illuminated object for miles.</p><br>
<p>Tilton also commissioned other monuments around the town of Tilton, including allegorical depictions of America, Europe, Asia, and a statue of a local Indian chief.</p><br>
<h3>Keystone</h3><br>
<p>The keystone of the arch is 5 ft tall and 12 ft deep. It is inscribed "Memorial Arch of Tilton" and "1882" on each end. Inside the keystone is a time capsule of sorts; it is a lead box with then-current newspapers from the erection period of the arch, a copy of Successful Men of New Hampshire, a history of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and gold and silver coins.</p><br>
<p>Robie&#39;s Country Store is a historic store at 9 Riverside Street in Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1822 and has been operated by the Robie family since 1887. Robies Country Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Robies has been a political stop for presidential candidates since the early 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Robie&#39;s was the oldest continuously operating business in Hooksett. The shop flourished at least in part due to its location: close to road, river, functioning mills and railroad traffic. The original building had a dock and received river barge merchandise until the railroad arrived in 1842.</p><br>
<p>The building burned in 1857, was rebuilt, burned again in 1906, and was again rebuilt. George A. Robie bought the store in 1887, and over the next 110 years it was passed down from father to son. It provided Hooksett with food and supplies and doubled as the towns post office. The Postal Service still maintains a small P.O. Box cluster for 26 customers inside the store. The building and its historical pieces were purchased by the Robies Country Store Preservation Corp. after the retirement of Lloyd Robie in 1997. The store operates under lease agreement.</p><br>
<p>Potter Place Railroad Station is a historic railroad station on Depot Street in Andover, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1874 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Andover Historical Society Museum</h2><br>
<p>The station is the primary museum building of the Andover Historical Society, and features an early to mid 20th century period station master&#39;s office. An early 20th century caboose is located next to the station.</p><br>
<p>The Societys other museum buildings include an early 20th-century railroad freight house displaying agricultural machinery and ice harvesting tools, a restored turn-of-the-20th-century village store, an early 20th-century post office, and a one-room schoolhouse. The Societys museum buildings are open on summer weekends.</p><br>
<p>The homestead site and grave of magician Richard Potter and his wife are located across the tracks from the station.</p><br>
<p>The Concord Civic District consists of a collection of local and state civic buildings centered on the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire. In addition to the State House, the district includes the Legislative Office Building, New Hampshire State Library, Concord City Hall, Concord Community Center, New Hampshire Historical Society, State House Annex, and the Concord Public Library. It also includes statuary and memorial objects placed on the grounds of the State House. The buildings, although architecturally different, are predominantly made out of locally quarried granite, and their grounds are landscaped in similar ways. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>State House and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The oldest portions of the State House were built in 1819, in a somewhat severe Federal style. The building was enlarged in the 1860s by architect Gridley J. F. Bryant, and again in 1909-10 by Edward Dow of Peabody & Stearns. The three story granite building is topped by a gilded dome rising to a height of 149 ft. The Bryant addition added the third floor (under a mansard roof) and dome, as well as the front portico and a single story addition to the west. The 1910 modifications included replacement of the mansard roof with a full third floor with a flat roof, and additions to the rear of the building. These changes included elements of Beaux Arts styling popular at the time.</p><br>
<p>The grounds of the State House include statues of figures important in state history: Daniel Webster, John Stark, Franklin Pierce, George H. Perkins, and John P. Hale are all represented by bronze statues. The grounds also house the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, marking the eastern entrance to the grounds, which was designed by Peabody & Stearns and dedicated in 1892, and a Veterans Memorial dedicated in 1953.</p><br>
<h2>Legislative Office Building</h2><br>
<p>This three story granite building was built in the 1880s to house the post office and federal courthouse, serving in one or both of those functions until 1967, when it was acquired by the state and converted for use as legislative offices. Architecturally, the building is roughly in a Chateau style, with Late Gothic and Renaissance Revival details. The building was remodeled in 1974, adding a wing to the west along with a parking garage. This building is also separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Whittier Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in Ossipee, New Hampshire. The bridge carried an old alignment of New Hampshire Route 25  over the Bearcamp River. Built in 1870, it is one of New Hampshire&#39;s few surviving 19th-century covered bridges, and a rare example of a Paddleford truss. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was closed to vehicular traffic in 1989, and was removed from its footings for restoration in 2008. It is presently resting on Nudd Road adjacent to the crossing point.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Whittier Bridge site is located southwest of the village of West Ossipee, at a long-used crossing point of the Bearcamp River, which flows roughly southeast toward Ossipee Lake from the White Mountains to the northwest. The bridge is a single-span Paddleford truss, with a total length of 137 ft and a clear span of 114 ft. Its exterior is clad in vertical board siding, which after its most recent renovation only extended part way up the sides. The portal ends project at an angle to a gable. The abutments are dry-laid large granite blocks reinforced by concrete.</p><br>
<p>Bridges have been documented at this location as early as 1792. The roadway was cut in the 1770s by Captain John Dudley on behalf of Ossipees proprietors, predating the towns incorporation. Known locally as the Great Bridge, it served as part of the major east-west route (now NH 25) in the region, later joined by an important north-south (now NH 16), with the two meeting in West Ossipee. Bridges standing here were documented by the town as undergoing either major repairs or reconstructions in the 19th century. The bridge preceding this one was washed off the abutments by flooding in 1869, and was rebuilt on commission from Henry Banks, proprietor of the West Ossipee Hotel. It is named for poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who summered at the hotel for several years in the 1870s. Like its predecessors, it has undergone a number of renovations and alterations. Laminated arches were added to strengthen it in the late 19th century, and steel supporting elements were added in the 1940s. It was again given a major restoration in 1983, at which time those elements were removed, and the full-height siding was replaced with the present shorter siding.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was closed again to traffic in 1989, and in 2008 it was removed from the abutments. It presently rests on the Nudd Road approach. It is being restored in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church, also known as the Old Corner Church, is a historic church at West and Federal Streets in Waterboro, Maine. Built in 1803-04 and altered to a Greek Revival appearance in 1849, it retains significant characteristics of more traditional Federal period meetinghouses. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Corner Church is located on a rise overlooking the southwest corner of West and Federal Streets, west of the main village of the town of Waterboro. It is a rectangular wood frame structure, about 40 x in size, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation obscured by a wooden water table. Its Greek Revival features include corner pilasters rising to a broad entablature, and a fully pedimented gable. The main facade faces east, and is symmetrically arranged, with a pair of entrances, each flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature. At the gallery level there are four sash windows. The side walls each have five triple-hung sash windows, with the pilasters, entablature and water table continued from the front.</p><br>
<p>The entrances lead into a narrow vestibule area, from which two stairs (one now closed off) lead to the gallery. The interior has rows of bench pews leading to a raised sanctuary area, with additional pews at the sides of the sanctuary. The sanctuary houses the pulpit, organ, and seating for deacons, with a raised area at the rear set off by an ornate stained woodwork balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1803-04 for a Baptist congregation organized in 1791. When built, this building originally had a gallery extending around three sides; this was reduced to a rear gallery when the building received its Greek Revival treatment in 1849. Despite these stylistic alterations (as well as the addition of a pressed-tin roof around the turn of the 20th century), the building retains a clearer indication of its Federal period roots than other such buildings in the state. This church was in active use until about 1947; it is still maintained by the local Baptist congregation, and is used for special events.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Buxton, also known locally as the Tory Hill Meetinghouse, is a historic church on ME 112 in Buxton, Maine. Built in 1822, it is an example of Federal period architecture, having had only modest alterations since its construction.</p><br>
<p>It is also notable for its association with the local author Kate Douglas Wiggin, serving as her inspiration for The Old Peabody Pew, a play that is now regularly performed at the church.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is associated with the United Church of Christ; its current pastor is Allison Flaherty.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The church is located at the northwest corner of Woodman Road and River Road (Maine State Route 112), just north of River Road&#39;s junction with United States Route 202. Oriented to face the southeast, it is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. A square tower with belfry, projecting slightly at the center of the main facade, rises to an octagonal steeple and weathervane. The projecting section widens below the roof line, an encompasses two entrances near its outer corners. The side walls are six bays long, with tall square sash windows. The interior is relatively plain, with bench pews and wainscoted walls.</p><br>
<p>The town of Buxton was incorporated in 1772, having been settled for some time. Land for this church property was granted in 1761, and the congregation was ministered by Paul Coffin from 1762 until is death 60 years later in 1821. In the following year, this church was built to replace the old meetinghouse. At an unknown date the original box pews were removed and replaced by the present bench pews; the original high pulpit remains, although it has been altered. The church is known as the "Tory Hill Meetinghouse" for the village, which became known as "Tory Hill" because local residents who opposed the War of 1812 refused to muster for militia service.</p><br>
<p>The building is noted for its literary association with the author Kate Douglas Wiggin, who lived nearby in Hollis in the late 19th century. She was instrumental in the founding of a community organization known as the Dorcas Society, for which she wrote The Old Peabody Pew. She also actively supported the church and other local groups, giving readings at the church for their benefit. The play is performed annually at the church each December.</p><br>
<p>The Former First Congregational Church is a historic church building at 938 Post Road, on the corner of Rt. 1 and Buzzell Road in Wells, Maine. It was built in 1862 on the site of the first colonial meeting house in Wells, believed to have been built in 1664. The building is a fine example of Romanesque and Gothic architecture. It now serves as the museum of the Historical Society of Wells and Ogunquit. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former First Congregational Church is located on United States Route 1 in central Wells, a short way north of the Webhannet River. The area is now commercially developed; the building stands at the southwestern corner of Route 1 and Buzzell Road, facing east. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. The front facade is symmetrically arranged, with sash windows topped by Gothic arched louvered panels on the outer bays, and the entrance at the center, set under a round arch supported by pilasters. Above the entrance is a three-part window with narrow sidelights, with Gothic-arch louvers above. A tower rises above the main ridge, with square stages supporting an open octagonal belfry with round-arch openings. The tower is topped by a steeple and weathervane.</p><br>
<p>The entrance leads into a vestibule area, which is separated from the main hall by two entrances, with an enclosed winding stair leading to a gallery above. The interior doorways are highlighted by gabled pediments. The gallery, unlike many churches of the period in Maine, is cantilevered over part of the nave area, supported by large brackets. The ceiling is pressed metal.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1862, and is the third meetinghouse to stand on the site; the first is believed to have been erected in 1664, and the second in 1699, after the first was burned in a Native American raid. The church saw active use until the 1960s, and was given to the local historical society in 1967. Its vestry space is used as a library and museum, while the hall is used as a community performance space.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Meetinghouse is a historic colonial meeting house at Meeting House Road and Old Pool Road in Biddeford, Maine. Built in 1758, it is the oldest public building in the city, and is one of the oldest buildings of its type in the state. It served as a combined church and town hall until about 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is now owned by the Biddeford Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Parish Meetinghouse is located at the triangular intersection of Old Pool Road (Maine State Routes 9 and 208) and Meeting House Road. Set facing west, toward Meeting House Road, it is a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. Its front facade is symmetrically arranged, with a pair of entrances at the ground level, and a single window in the gable at the gallery level. The doorways and all windows are topped by lancet-arched Gothic louvers. The main structure is built out of hand-hewn timbers. The building originally had a belfry; this was apparently removed during alterations in 1840, in which the pulpit was lowered and soundboard removed.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was built in 1758 by Nathaniel Perkins, a local master builder, pursuant to a vote by the Biddeford town meeting. The congregation that met here is the "mother congregation" of both the congregation church in adjacent Saco and the present UCC congregation in Biddeford. The meeting house was an important site in the community during the American Revolutionary War, when local organizing activities were held here. It is also notable for its association with James Sullivan, who rose to prominence as a lawyer here and eventually became Governor of Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s By-The-Sea Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic church at 529 Shore Road in Cape Neddick, Maine. Built in 1897, it is fine example of Gothic Revival architecture, and as one of several architecturally distinguished summer resort chapels that dot the Maine coast. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is used for services between June and September.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church is set on the east side of Shore Drive, just south of The Cliff House Resort near the easternmost point of Cape Neddick. It is a stone and wood construction, built in the style of a medieval English country church. It is roughly cruciform in shape, with short transepts and an entry porch. The stone tower rises in buttress-like steps to an open belfry, and is capped by a stone cross. The interior has Gothic style timber truss framing, tongue-and-groove paneled walls and ceilings, and Gothic-style lights.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Nanne Dunlap Conarroe made a bequest in 1897 to build the church and the Ogunquit Memorial Library. In accordance with her deceased husband George&#39;s wishes the church was built on Christian Hill so that the cross on the steeple could be viewed by fishermen at sea. The church and the library were both designed by Charles C. Burns, and built by Edward Blaisdell of York. A house, originally named Bonnie Brae but now known as the Marmion House, was built adjacent to the church in 1900, and has served as the rectory since 1908. In 1917 Nanne Conarroe died and left the church, Bonnie Brae, and two other houses, to the board of directors. The church was incorporated in 1927. In 2007 a memorial garden was opened adjacent to the church for the burial of cremains.</p><br>
<p>The J. Warren Smith House is a house at 21 North Palmetto Street at the corner of North Palmetto and Edgemont Streets in Liberty, South Carolina in Pickens County. It has also been called "Maggie Manor" and the Myrtle Inn, which were names during its use as a boarding house. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 2005. It is considered an excellent example of a Colonial Revival house and for its connection with J. Warren Smith, who was a local business executive.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>J. Warren Smith (1880-1968) was born in Anderson, South Carolina. He went to public schools and began his career in farming but switched to carpentry for six years. Then he worked for International Harvester in sales and as an expert in gas engines. In 1910, he founded Liberty Light & Power. Two gas engines were used to produce electric power for Liberty. When demand for power exceeded the companys generating capacity, he sold the company to Duke Power under an agreement that included lifetime employment. He became the Pickens County manager in its Liberty office. In 1937, he was transferred to Greenville in Dukes Rural Electrification and Engineering Department. He sold his house and moved to Greenville in 1941. He retired in 1955. In 1966, he moved to Easley where he died in 1968.</p><br>
<p>Around the time of the sale of Liberty Power & Light, Smith started building a new house that was appropriate for his status in the community. It is likely that construction took a number of years. Starting in the 1930s, the house was used to board local teachers and others. Eventually, the house became known as "Maggie Manor," which was named for Mattie Smith, wife of J. Warren Smith. When the house was sold to L. J. and Sybil Kelley in 1941, it became the Myrtle Inn. The cook was Mrs. Kelley&#39;s mother, who was known as "Granny Chamblin" and also lived in the house with her husband. Myrtle Inn served lunch for boarders and others. It was a popular place for many local businessmen to eat. It was used for boarders and as a tourist home until 1970. It was resold in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story, 4,080 sqfoot, brick-veneer house on a brick foundation. The front elevation faces east. The hip roof with composition shingles has a balustrade around its top. The house has wide, overhanging eaves. The attic has dormers facing east, south, and north.</p><br>
<p>The house has two formal entrances with porches. The porches are supported by Doric columns that are clustered at the outer corners and paired and engaged at the house. The main entrance is on the east elevation on Palmetto Street and the family entrance is on the north side on Edgemont Street. There is porch on the south elevation. In 1970, this porch was enclosed. The small porch on the west elevation was also enclosed with vinyl siding about the same time. The ceilings of the porches are bead board.</p><br>
<p>The windows on the east elevation are mainly six over six light sash windows. The dormers have a pair of smaller six over six light windows.</p><br>
<p>The first floor has 10 ft ceilings. The living room is the main room of the first floor and is off the main entrance. The room has dark oak baseboards that are 10 in tall. The house has hardwood floors, which are covered in carpet in the living room. The room has a faux brick fireplace with marble mantle.</p><br>
<p>Other rooms on the first floor are the dining room, center hall with stairways to the second floor and basement, breakfast room, kitchen, south porch, master bedroom and bathroom. The dining room has two fifteen light doors that lead to the south porch. The breakfast room connects with the dining room through a two-paneled swinging door. The kitchen is off the breakfast room and in the southwest corner of the house. A fifteen light door leads to the rear porch. The master bathroom is between a rear hall and the master bedroom.</p><br>
<p>The second floor, which has 9 ft ceilings, has six bedrooms and two bathrooms. Each bedroom has a six over six light sash window. The trim is the same as on the first floor. Only one of the bathrooms has the original plumbing fixtures. The other bathroom was converted from a closet. The attic was plumbed with water lines but was never unfinished. It is currently used for storage.</p><br>
<p>The front of the basement is a crawlspace. The rear is excavated and has the utilities for the house. It has a central vacuum system with connections in each room of the house for the vacuum hose. It has a coal-burning furnace that produces steam for heating. The furnace has a conveyor belt feed system that brings coal from the basement utility room. The basement was altered in 1970 that included a bedroom and an acoustical tile ceiling.</p><br>
<p>Holt House is an historic house, located on the grounds of the National Zoo, and probably built before 1814. It is one of the most important examples of early Neoclassical architecture in Washington, D.C., and was one of the major houses in the new Federal City when it was built. Its caretaker has been the Smithsonian Institution since 1889, and is the oldest building under the Smithsonian&#39;s auspices, but has been left vacant since the 1980s. It was listed in the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites in 1964 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Holt House is intimately linked to the early history of both Washington and the nation through its association with such prominent figures as Thomas Johnson (first governor of Maryland), Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Stoddert (first Secretary of the Navy), Benjamin Mackall (Georgetown merchant), John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. It has been owned by the Smithsonian Institution since 1890, and is the oldest building under its auspices.</p><br>
<p>While Holt House is one of the great country-style estates built during the early years of the new Federal City, it remains a mystery as to who built it and when. The chain of ownership and the backgrounds of the owners of the land on which the house sits suggest it could have been constructed no later than 1814. It seems most likely that the house was built by George Johnson, and if so, his connections to Dr. William Thornton, first Architect of the Capitol, suggest that Thornton may have a hand in the design of Holt House.</p><br>
<h3>Benjamin Stoddert</h3><br>
<p>The land on which Holt House sits was originally part of a tract of land acquired from the Beall family in 1793 by Benjamin Stoddert (builder of Halcyon House in Georgetown). Stoddert served as a captain in the Revolutionary Army, Secretary of the Board of War (1779–1781), merchant owner in Georgetown, co-founder and President of the Bank of Columbia (1794), and first Secretary of the Navy. It was probably Benjamin Stoddert who built Columbia Mills on the property in the 1790s. Despite his prominent position, Stoddert&#39;s land speculation left him land rich and cash poor. Perhaps to help increase his cash flow, he constructed a flour mill on this parcel of land.</p><br>
<h3>Walter Mackall</h3><br>
<p>In December 1800, Stoddert sold the property, referred to as "Pretty Prospect" to his friend Walter Mackall. The deed included "the buildings, improvements, privileges, advantages and appurtenances." These "buildings" may be a reference to only the mill structures, but may also have included some form of a residence for a mill manager. Architectural evidence suggests that the west wing of Holt House may have been built earlier than the rest of the house and may have served as a small residence. If a house the present size of Holt House existed at this time, it would have been significant enough a structure to be mentioned separately in the deed.</p><br>
<p>Walter Mackall came from Calvert County, Maryland, served in the Maryland House of Delegates, and was a wealthy land holder in both Maryland and Washington. His brother, Benjamin Mackall, married Christina Beall, whose father Brooke Beall, was a wealthy shipping merchant in Georgetown, sending great quantities of grain and tobacco to England. When the government moved to Washington in 1800 and when William Thornton was serving as City Commissioner, Benjamin Mackall was one of those in charge of the transfer of the government books from Philadelphia. Benjamin may have become involved in the milling part of his father-in-law&#39;s business. To his daughter Christina, Beall gave a double square on Georgetown Heights, part of his vast landholdings known as the "Rock of Dumbarton," where they built Mackall Square.</p><br>
<p>Walter Mackall owned Pretty Prospect for only four years. He may have originally taken an interest in the mills due to his brother Benjamin&#39;s connection to the Beall family business. This was also a period of great land speculation in the new Federal City, and the time when large country-style houses were being constructed in Georgetown and on the outskirts of the City. Mackall may have built the present house or expanded a smaller, pre-existing house on speculation of increased resale value.</p><br>
<h3>Jonathan Shoemaker</h3><br>
<p>In 1804, Mackall sold the property, which consisted of the existent "mills, mill seats, way waters, buildings, and improvements" to Pennsylvania Quaker and miller Jonathan Shoemaker for $3,800 with an additional mortgage for a total cost $9,600. He arrived with his family of five sons and one daughter to operate the mills. While the deed acquired by Shoemaker now mentions the mills, it still does not refer to a house on the property. Problems at Columbia Mills and a dispute with Thomas Jefferson forced the Shoemakers to sell the property and relocate to Shadwell, Virginia to help operate Jefferson&#39;s mills there.</p><br>
<p>The Shoemakers were among the earliest Quaker settlers in the area and traveled far to attend meetings. As a former Quaker, Mrs. Roger Johnson may have known Jonathan and Elizabeth Shoemaker as they may have attended the same Quaker meetings in Indian Springs, Maryland. When the first Quaker Meeting was held in Georgetown in 1806, the Shoemakers may have made the acquaintance of architect William Thornton then, but sold the property only three years later.</p><br>
<p>The fact that Shoemaker took a mortgage to acquire the property and sold it for less than his original purchase price suggests that he was not in a financial position at this time to construct a larger manor house the size of Holt House, had it not already existed when he bought the property. Additionally, his Quaker beliefs would suggest a more modest lifestyle, as he relied on his family and not employees or slaves to run the mills, and would not have allowed for managing a house of this size as well. Ultimately, the Shoemaker family was prosperous, and Pierce Shoemaker returned to Washington and purchased what is known today as Peirce Mill on Rock Creek Park.</p><br>
<h3>Roger Johnson</h3><br>
<p>In 1809, Jonathan Shoemaker sold the property for $7,500 to Roger Johnson, of Frederick County, Maryland, the younger brother of Maryland’s first governor, Thomas Johnson. This was an investment on Roger&#39;s part, as he already owned two foundries, a glass works, and a plantation in Frederick County and remained at his home "Bloomsbury" in Frederick County, while sending his son George to manage Columbia Mills.</p><br>
<p>Around 1809 or 1810, George Johnson is wed to Elizabeth Dunlop, daughter of wealthy Georgetown merchant James Dunlop, and the niece of Thomas Peter (the builder of Tudor Place and designed by Dr. William Thornton). There is evidence that George was married by 1810 and may have been living at the mill property by then, as Mrs. Dunlop (George&#39;s mother-in-law) sent three house slaves to her daughter in that year, which would probably not have occurred were they living with the Dunlops.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1812, George Johnson began borrowing large sums of money in order to rebuild the mills after they burned, employing a millwright to build "the best mill possible," and possibly may have used some of this money to construct a new house, or enlarge an existing house on the property as well. Perhaps the first reference to a "house" on the property appears in an 1818 letter from George Johnson to his father-in-law, James Dunlop. He was concerned that the house (which he refers to in the letter as "my house," "in town") would be attached with a lien due to his large debts, and was in hopes of renting it out. Possibly, George owned another house in Georgetown at that time as well. While "in town" in present-day terms generally refers to an urban center, because George Johnson is writing from Frederick, he may be referring to Washington in general. There have been no records discovered to-date that show any evidence of another residence for George Johnson other than Pretty Prospect. George&#39;s financial problems, beginning as early as 1814, suggest that he was not in a position to construct a large house after about 1812, due possibly in part to the financial impact of the British blockade of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac at that time.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, due to the extent of Georges debts, Roger Johnson attempted to intervene on behalf of his son. Only two days after Georges letter from Frederick, Roger also writes to James Dunlop. In his letter to Dunlop, he says that he hopes to sell his lot near the mill in the spring, then later to "sell the half of his Mil" (which he never did). Roger also asks James Dunlop to assume payment on half of Georges debts, as he considered him partially responsible as the under signer of the loans. In his letter to Dunlop, Roger makes no separate reference to a house, only to the lot near the mill. But, according to Smithsonian records, a month before this letter was sent, Roger had already transferred the deed for the mill to the Bank of Columbia, with Georges father-in-law, James Dunlop serving as trustee "to set up and sell at public sale for cash or upon credit" against George&#39;s debts, which totaled $28,161.55 with interest. The deed transfer encompassed "the Mill houses, dwelling houses, buildings, improvements." Roger maintained possession of 13 acres of Pretty Prospect, which later become the Holt House property.</p><br>
<p>It is uncertain who was paying on the mortgage between 1818 and 1823, but in fear of losing his home, in 1823 George approached his cousin Louisa Johnson Adams (wife of John Quincy Adams) in hopes that John Quincy would acquire the mortgage from the bank. Adams mortgaged his house in order to purchase the mill in 1823 for $20,000, and placed George on salary to continue to manage the mill, with the understanding that George would later buy back half the mills from Adams. Within months of purchasing the property, Adams became president.</p><br>
<p>Adams had hoped that the mills would be able to provide him some income and security in his retirement years. However, in 1823 his father (John Adams) wagered that demand would soar, and increased production. John Quincy watched as prices fell, costing him $15,000. Although never a successful business, the mill remained in the possession of the Adams&#39; family until about 1872.</p><br>
<p>In 1824, Georges arrangement with Adams to manage the mills was terminated by Adams due to Georges inability to run them efficiently. In that same year, George once again approached Adams for assistance, soliciting a place as a Clerk in one of the Departments, to which John Quincy assured him he would "in no case recommend him." George may have continued to reside in the house until his brother finally sold the estate in 1835. Records show that by 1827, George was working as a clerk at 1st Comptrollers Office in Georgetown. There are no records to date to indicate another resident at Holt House between Georges tenure there and the time it was sold in 1835.</p><br>
<h3>Ashton Alexander</h3><br>
<p>In 1831, Roger Johnson died, leaving the disposal of the 13 acres of Pretty Prospect to his sons, Joseph A. and Charles Johnson, requesting that "the house" and lot of land adjoining the Columbia Mills be sold to cover outstanding debts. It was not until 1835 that they sold the property to Dr. Ashton Alexander, a prominent physician from Baltimore, for whose family Alexandria, Virginia is named. Dr. Alexander never resided in Washington himself, and in 1838, rented the house to Amos Kendall, postmaster general of the United States, a close confident of Andrew Jackson, and one of the founders of the modern Democratic Party. Kendall dubbed the house "Jackson Hill" in admiration of his friend, probably much to the chagrin of Jackson’s political rival and adjacent property owner, John Quincy Adams.</p><br>
<p>Amos Kendall must not have been the best of tenants, as in 1841, Dr. Alexander placed an advertisement in the newspaper the National Intelligencer offering the property for lease or sale, declaring that “it has undergone three years of deterioration by the worst treatment by those who unfortunately tenanted. The proofs of which are grievously visible at a glance. And for the whole three years not a dollar, so far, has been received for damages or rent.”</p><br>
<h3>Dr. Henry Holt</h3><br>
<p>Dr. Henry Holt, a former USA Army assistant surgeon from Oswego County, New York, purchased the property in December 1844. Dr. Holt and his family finally sold the property to the commissioners for the National Zoological Park in 1889 for $40,000. By the time the Zoo purchased the property in 1889, Holt House was very dilapidated and badly in need of extensive repair. In helping plan the new zoological park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. advised the park’s planners to look to the graceful architecture of Holt House as a source of inspiration.</p><br>
<h3>National Zoo</h3><br>
<p>To meet the Zoo&#39;s needs for an administrative building and to stabilize the structure, there were so many changes made to the structure between 1890 and 1903, that much of the interior, historic fabric was lost. Despite its structural problems, however, the building has retained its distinctive character of a nineteenth-century country villa, which appeals to visitors. Zoo personnel occupied the building until 1988 after which it was boarded up, pending a future use. While the building is once again neglected, its purchase by the Zoo in 1889 probably helped ensure its survival over nearly 200 years.</p><br>
<p>Congress has limited spending on the house:</p><br>
<h2>Architecture of Holt House</h2><br>
<p>Holt House is one of the few remaining "suburban villas" in Washington, D.C, a design concept by the 16th-century Italian architect, Andrea Palladio. As with Holt House, many designs modeled after Palladio’s consist of five parts: a central or main block, flanked by a pair of symmetrical wings, connected to the main block by narrower hyphens and end pavilions or wings.</p><br>
<p>Holt House is in the "piano nobile" design style, with the upper or main floor of the house containing the formal rooms and family living quarters and the lower level or ground level usually functioning as a service area and cellar. The ground level of Holt House is thought originally to have had at least five rooms, less finely finished than the main floor and not a full story in height. The west wing had an interior stair that connected the lower floor with the upper floor, possibly connecting a ground level kitchen with an upper level dining area.</p><br>
<p>Due to the different methods of construction of the two wings, including an over sized external chimney and bricked up door and window openings, the west wing may pre-date the rest of the house. It may have been used as a residence for earlier owners of the mill, or used as the main family dwelling as the other parts of the house were completed, as was the custom in the 18th century. This was the sequence of construction at Tudor Place (designed by Dr. William Thornton, first Architect of the Capitol), the Custis-Lee Mansion (Arlington House), and Kalorama (designed by Benjamin Latrobe).</p><br>
<p>Holt House was built of load bearing masonry walls, primarily of brick but intermingled with local stones and rocks. The exterior of the masonry was covered with a white limed based stucco, with a smooth finish and possibly scored to resemble ashlar; similar to the exterior finish of Tudor Place.</p><br>
<p>The central block and matching wings on Holt House have gabled roofs with pedimented façades that are articulated with equally spaced modillions. The modillions are rectangular blocks or brackets used horizontally in a way that appears to support the roof above. The pediment of the central block, on the north and south elevations, was accentuated with a semi-circular window.</p><br>
<p>Originally the north entrance served as the main entrance to the house and the entrance hall, accessed by a stairway from the ground level to the main level’s open porch. Beneath the porch was an enclosed space accessed on both the east and west elevations through arched openings. Both arches remain today.</p><br>
<p>The south side of the house was accessible via a door on the ground level, and on the main level by a pair of matching spiral staircases. The paired spiral stairs were unique to this area but not extraordinary in Palladio’s designs. The grand room on the main level opened to a porch with flat, parapeted flat roof. The main level entrances on both the north and south sides of the central block were three panel double-doors with glazed sidelight sashes.</p><br>
<p>A significant architectural feature of Holt House&#39;s design was the use of Wyatt windows in the south elevation. These tripartite sash windows, with a center sash of six over nine, were a design popularized by the English architect, James Wyatt in the 18th century. The Wyatt window is similar to a Serliana or Palladian window, but without a center-arched glazed section. Wyatt windows are found in many houses in the Washington vicinity at the turn of the 19th-century.</p><br>
<h2>Pictures</h2><br>
<h2>End notes</h2><br>
<p>The houses at 208–218 East 78th Street in Manhattan, New York, United States, are a group of six attached brick rowhouses built during the early 1860s. They are the remnant of 15 built along that street as affordable housing when the Upper East Side was just beginning to be developed.</p><br>
<p>They are distinctive for the round-arched windows and door openings on their north (front) facades, an unusual trim for houses otherwise firmly in the Italianate architectural style common for urban buildings of that era. and in 1983 they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The row is on the south side of East 78th, between Second and Third avenues. The block is residential, with many similar, taller rowhouses on both sides of the tree-lined street. The neighborhood is just outside the Upper East Side Historic District, close to the southern edge of Yorkville.</p><br>
<p>Each house is three stories high and two bays, only 13 feet 4 inches (4.06 m) wide on a raised basement. All are trimmed with carved stone elliptical arched surrounds. The entryways and the adjacent first-story windows have an additional keystone molding. The upper windows also have corbeled sills. The flat rooflines have projecting cornices with vertical brackets. Stoops with iron railings lead to the sidewalk from the entryways, all located on the east bay of the front facades.</p><br>
<p>There are a few deviations from these standards. The house at 214 has had shutters added, and it and 216 have had some of their original ironwork replaced. At 218, the original brownstone stoop has been replaced with a modern concrete one.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the Third Avenue Railway in 1852 allowed residents of what was then the village of Yorkville to commute to jobs in what is today Midtown and Lower Manhattan. The present area of East 78th Street was still an undeveloped section of Yorkville nine years later, in 1861, when Howard Martin bought 200 feet (60 m) of frontage along the block to build speculative housing.</p><br>
<p>In accordance with a New York Supreme Court decision a year earlier, Martin paid $128 ($ in contemporary dollars) to the city for the opening of 78th Street. He had subdivided it into 15 lots, numbered 206–234 East 78th, and had begun building when he sold the properties to William Brower in 1862. Brower retained the builders, Warren and Ransom Beman and John Buckley, a likely reason for the uniformity of the resulting buildings.</p><br>
<p>Construction was delayed somewhat by the difficulty of getting materials during the Civil War, but Brower had sold all the houses by the time construction was finished in 1865. Since then, number 206 on the west end of the row and 220–234 on the east have been demolished to build the neighboring, taller apartment buildings.</p><br>
<p>Other than the alterations noted above, they are as they were when originally built. All five have remained private residences. In 2010 a real estate listing for 208 East 78th gave its rent as $15,775 a month.</p><br>
<p>Hammondsport Union Free School, also known as Hammondsport Academy and Hammondsport High School, is a historic school building located at Hammondsport in Steuben County, New York. It is a three story stone structure in the Italianate style. The earliest section was built in 1858 as a private secondary school, Hammondsport Academy. It was converted to a public union school in 1875, and was expanded in three additions over the next 38 years . It served as a school until 1935 and has been used for other public functions, including as the original home of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum from 1962 to 1994, and for many years as the Hammondsport Public Library and municipal offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It was converted to apartments by Arbor Housing and Development, a non-profit group in Bath, NY.</p><br>
<p>The Blairs Ferry Storehouse is a historic brick structure in the USA city of Loudon, Tennessee. Originally built as a storehouse for the burgeoning riverboat trade in the community of Blairs Ferry in the 1830s, the structure was eventually renovated and used for a variety of functions throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is one of the region&#39;s earliest surviving examples of a structure designed specifically as a warehouse. In 1977, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Blairs Ferry Storehouse is located at the corner of Main Street and Church Street, just off USA Route 11 in downtown Loudon. The storehouse overlooks the west bank of the Tennessee River, at River Mile 592, with a large factory dominating the view on the opposite side of the river. The storehouse is visible from the J. Carmichael Bridge, which crosses the river immediately downstream. Blairs Ferry Storehouse should not be confused with the Orme Wilson Storehouse, a mid-19th century structure currently occupied by the Wharf Street Coffeehouse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Blair family was one of the first families to settle at what is now Loudon, arriving sometime in the 1790s. James Blair (1777&ndash;1826)&mdash; whose brother-in-law John Hudson Carmichael had established the Carmichael Inn in 1810&mdash; was granted permission to operate a ferry along the river in 1817. The small community that grew up around the ferry thus became known as "Blairs Ferry." The community grew slowly, for while it was in a location well-suited for river traffic, most river trade was local, since various river obstacles (such as Muscle Shoals) isolated the Upper Tennessee River from the great ports along the Mississippi River for all but a few months each year. In 1830, the state government funded dredging projects that made the river navigable from Knoxville to Decatur, Alabama (at the head of Muscle Shoals), bringing increased river traffic to Blairs Ferry.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the 1820s and early 1830s, Blair&#39;s Ferry was the subject of a lengthy court case. In 1819, taking advantage of a provision in the Calhoun Treaty, the Cherokee leader Pathkiller claimed a 640 acre reservation</p><br>
<p>of land that included Blairs Ferry. Blair sued Pathkiller to regain title to the land. Although Blair died in 1826 and Pathkiller died the following year, Blairs sons John and Wiley continued to pursue the case against the Gardenhire family, to whom Pathkiller had sold the reservation. In 1834, the court ruled that Pathkillers sale of the land had made his reservation claim null and void, and title to the land was returned to the Blairs. The Blairs Ferry Storehouse was constructed shortly after this legal victory to take advantage of the growing river trade. The storehouse&#39;s builder is unknown, but some sources suggest a local entrepreneur named James H. Johnston (an associate of the Blairs), who operated a general store at the storehouse until the 1860s.</p><br>
<p>In the 1840s, Blairs Ferry had a general store, steamboat landing, and several houses, along with the ferry. The community changed its name to "Blairsville" in 1851, and the following year, the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad constructed a line connecting Blairsville with Dalton, Georgia. The company intended to connect Dalton with Knoxville, but struggled to raise funding to build a bridge across the Tennessee River, and thus Blairsville became the railroads temporary northern terminus. With the help of railroad planners, Blairsville expanded, and was renamed "Loudon" after the nearby colonial Fort Loudoun. In the years 1852 to 1855 (when the bridge was completed), Loudon experienced a boom period, with farmers arriving from around the region to ship their crops to the south.</p><br>
<p>After the USA Civil War, the Blairs Ferry Storehouse came into the possession of a local merchant named John West, who continued to use it as a general store. After Wests death in 1883, the storehouse changed hands several times over subsequent decades. It was variously used as a dance hall, packing house, and as a temporary church. In the early 1900s, the second story was partitioned and modified for use as residential apartments. A grocer named W.B. Arp purchased the storehouse in the 1930s, and while he used the storehouse for a grocery store, he continued renting out the second story as a residence. Arp added the rear and side porches, and converted the basement into a residential apartment. A grocery store operated out of the first floor of the storehouse until the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Blair&#39;s Ferry Storehouse is a Federal-style two-story building with a stepped brick facade and gable roof. The building was originally rectangular, measuring 25 ft by 58 ft (including the porch in the back), although a 16 ft wing addition to the south wall in the 1930s gave the building an "L" shape. The bricks of the original structure are handmade bricks laid in common bond, while the bricks of the later additions are pressed bricks. The floors of the first and second stories consist of wooden planks, while the basement floor is poured concrete. The building has two porches&mdash; a two-story, shed-roofed porch along the rear (west) wall, and a similar two-story porch along the south wall.</p><br>
<p>The first floor of the interior contains a storeroom (at the east, or front end), a parlor, and a kitchen. The second story contains two bedrooms, a parlor, and a dining room. The basement contains an apartment similar to the one on the second story. There are no interior stairways, so the second story is accessible only via the side and rear porches, and the basement is accessible through a door adjacent to the rear porch.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Valley Wine Company, also known as Great Western Winery, is a historic winery complex located in the Hamlet of Rheims in the Town of Urbana in Steuben County, New York. The complex consists of nine historic buildings constructed of fieldstone. The five oldest structures were built in the 1860s and are in the Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The winery has the largest plantings of Chardonnay and Riesling in New York.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Established on March 15, 1860 by Charles Champlin and 12 other investors, the winery is the first bonded winery in the United States; bonded winery #1. The winery produced Isabella and Catawba initially, expanding into sparkling wine production in 1865, earning the Pleasant Valley the nickname "the Reims of America." The on-site post office used the postmark "Reims, NY" until 1945.</p><br>
<p>During Prohibition, the winery survived by making sacramental and medicinal wines. After Repeal, the winery was sold several times, including the Taylor Wine Company in 1961, and inclusion in the sale of Taylor to Coca-Cola in 1977. Coke sold the winery to Joseph E. Seagram & Sons in 1983, which sold the winery to Vintners International in 1987. In 1995, the winery was purchased by the Doyle family.</p><br>
<p>The Jakobsberg is a hill, that forms the westernmost peak of the Wesergebirge chain and is the eastern guardian of the Weser gorge, the Porta Westfalica or "Westphalian Gate", in North Rhine-Westphalia .</p><br>
<p>The summit is the site of the Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower, which stands on the site of a former Bismarck Tower, near the Bismarckburg Inn, the Schlageter Monument and the Porta Bluff. Its name has been commonly used since 1788, when a Prussian publican (Zöllner), by the name of Jakob, cultivated a vineyard on its southern slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Jakobsberg rises at the western end of the Wesergebirge hills in the district of Minden-Lübbecke directly northwest of the town of Porta Westfalica and about 6 km south of the town of Minden which lies beside the Minden Aqueduct. It is located due east of the gorge of Porta Westfalica, which is on the northern perimeter of the Weser Uplands and southern boundary of the North German Plain, and through which the River Weser flows from the hill country northwards into the plain. The hill on the opposite side of the gorge to the west, the Wittekindsberg, which is the eastern guardian of the Wiehen Hills, defines the western side of this gorge.</p><br>
<p>The Jakobsberg is surrounded by the extreme eastern parts of the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehen Hills Nature Park that runs from just in front of the Bückeburg into the Wiehen Hills.</p><br>
<h2>Bismarck Tower, Porta Westfalica</h2><br>
<p>In 1902 a Bismarck Tower was built on the highest point of the Jakobsberg im memory of the old imperial Reich Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), by his admirers. The tower consisted of sandstone blocks, was 22 m high and was looked after by the Bismarck Federation (Bismarkbund). On its 50th anniversary (1952) it was torn down in order to make way for the first transmission tower on the Jakobsberg. The sandstone blocks of the Bismarck Tower were used to rebuild the town hall in Minden that had been destroyed in the Second World War.</p><br>
<h2>Underground manufacturing facility</h2><br>
<p>In the closing phase of the Second World War, most likely in March 1944, the manufacture of pipes by the firm of Philips was moved from the Netherlands to the Jakobsberg. Disused galleries of an old iron ore mine were developed. Such galleries run through many parts of the Wiehen Hills and Wesergebirge, their entrances are usually walled up nowadays and made unrecognisable. In Hausberge and Barkhausen there was a satellite of Neuengamme concentration camp with over a thousand prisoners, of which a considerable number worked in the Jakobsberg. Women from the area also worked, under much better conditions, in the hill. After the end of the war the local population used their surviving knowledge of the mine system running through the hills to collect material from the production facilities and sell it on the black market. The British occupation forces brought this to an end with a demolition that caused pictures to fall from the walls up to a distance of 15 kilometres away and that created part of the present-day riverside front of the Jakobsberg.</p><br>
<h2>Transmission towers</h2><br>
<h3>Old transmission tower</h3><br>
<p>On the site of the former observation tower, the Bismarckturm Porta Westfalica, a steel and concrete transmission tower was built in 1952. It was also called the Bismarck Tower. The Deutsche Bundespost, who had bought the land needed for the tower from the Bismarck Federation, was contractually committed as the owner of the transmission tower to establish a Bismarck memorial on the new tower and a public viewing platform.</p><br>
<h3>New transmission tower</h3><br>
<p>The Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower (known locally as Langer Jakob or "Long James") was built on the site of the old Bismarck Tower from 1974 to 1978, also in concrete and steel. It is a 142 m high transmission tower (standard tower).</p><br>
<p>The Deutsche Bundespost, as owners of the tower, was once again contractually obliged to have a Bismarck memorial and an observation platform on the new tower. Today the tower is owned by Deutsche Telekom.</p><br>
<p>The Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower</p><br>
<p>has an operations room at a height of 50 m and an observation platform open to the public at a height of 23.26 m, from which a good all-round view may be enjoyed, for example over parts of the Weser Uplands and the North German Plain as well as the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument on the Wittekindsberg.</p><br>
<h2>Bismarckburg Inn</h2><br>
<p>A few metres west of the Jakobsberg transmission tower is Gaststätte Bismarckburg, an inn that was built at the end of the 18th century and is rich in tradition. It acted as a falconry as well as being a popular local destination. It adapted to changing circumstances over time by undergoing several conversions; but has since become empty and fallen into disrepair.</p><br>
<h2>Schlageter Monument</h2><br>
<p>On the crest of the Jakobsberg towards the southwest and just under 650 m (as the crow flies) west of the Bismarckburg Inn at a height of are the ruins of the Schlageter Monument. Built in 1933/34, it was never completed, probably for ideological reasons. On a plinth was a large cross. This only stood there for a short time before being moved to Minden&#39;s North Cemetery (Nordfriedhof). There it was integrated into a memorial for those who fell in the First World War.</p><br>
<p>In 1958 the authorities of the town of Porta Westfalica had the ruins of the monument made accessible and erected an observation platform on the plinth, that gives visitors a far-reaching view to the south and west, for example to the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument on the Wittekindsberg.</p><br>
<h2>Porta Bluff</h2><br>
<p>About 150 m northwest of the Schlageter Monument on the western slopes of the Jakobsberg above a steep, southwest dipping crag is the Porta Bluff (Porta Kanzel, ), a natural observation platform.</p><br>
<p>In 1887 the crag, as the Porta Bluff, was made accessible by members of the Hausberge Tourism Club. From there it offers a good view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument on the Wittekindsberg and over the River Weser in the Porta Westfalica gorge.</p><br>
<h2>Military training area</h2><br>
<p>On the northern parts of the Jakobsberg (around the village of Lerbeck) is the Minden-Bückeburg training area, a military training area for the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr.</p><br>
<h2>Transport links</h2><br>
<p>Near the Wittekindsberg the B 61, B 65 and B 482 federal roads cross one another. These provide links to the A 2 and A 30 motorways not far to the south as well as side roads that lead to the hill.</p><br>
<p>In addition the Jakobsberg is linked to the Deutsche Bahn railway network by Porta station, which is part of Porta Westfalica and situated at the western foot of the hill on the east bank of the Weser.</p><br>
<p>The Jakobsberg is covered by a good network of walking trails, including the European long-distance path E11 over which the points of interest on the hill may be reached. Access for private vehicles is the village of Hausberge.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Advent is a historic church building on Church Street, one block south of the junction with Maine State Route 229 in Limestone, Maine. Built in 1881, the architecturally eclectic Gothic/Romanesque building was constructed for an Episcopalian church congregation founded in 1872, which is believed to be the oldest in Limestone. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and building history</h2><br>
<p>The Church of the Advent is a modest wood frame building, with a distinctive steeply gabled roof and a small tower just to the left of the main block. The main (west-facing) facade has two tall and narrow round-headed windows, with the main entrance in a rounded opening in the tower. A narrow rectangular window is above the doorway in the tower, with an open belfry above, capped by a pyramidal roof. Behind the sanctuary is a wider modern single-story addition built of concrete blocks, with a shallow-pitch gable roof. The interior (walls and barrel-vaulted ceiling) are finished in stained tongue-and-groove woodwork, although early accounts describe the church ceiling has having been plastered. Surviving original features include wall-mounted oil lamps.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal congregation that built the church in 1881 was founded in 1872, and is believed to be Limestone&#39;s first organized church group. It originally met in a school before having this building built. The building was originally located on the Grand Falls Road where the Protestant Cemetery continues to stand. The church was moved on log rollers, using horses to its present location over several months in 1896. It was reported in 1904 that its tower had been raised to accommodate the belfry.</p><br>
<p>The church continues to be used by the same congregation.</p><br>
<p>The Gray Memorial United Methodist Church and Parsonage is a historic church complex at 8 Prospect Street in Caribou, Maine. The Gothic Revival wood frame church, built in 1912-14 for a Methodist congregation founded in 1860, is the most architecturally sophisticated church in Caribou. It was built on the lot of the Colonial Revival parsonage house, which was moved to make way for the church. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The current pastor is Rev. Tom Bentum.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gray Memorial United Methodist Church is set on a grassy level lot at the corner of Prospect and Sweden Streets in downtown Caribou. The building is an L-shaped wood frame structure, with a multistage tower at the crook of the L. The facade facing Sweden Street has a large central gable with three lancet-arched windows, the central one larger than those flanking it, and an oriel window above. The main entrance is in the tower, which is slightly recessed from the facade and sheltered by a gable-roof hood. A secondary entrance is located to the left of the gable, and there is a porte-cochere to the right, supported by square posts set on stone piers. The Prospect street facade also has a primary entrance in the tower, with two secondary entrances on the large gable to the right. The gable has one large centered lancet-arch window with an oriel window above, and a smaller lancet-arch window to the left. The tower&#39;s second and third levels both have short lancet-arch windows, one on the second level and three on the third. Above the third level is a flared roofline, above which is an open belfry with paired lancet-arch openings, and a pyramidal roof above with an embedded clock.</p><br>
<p>The church interior has retained its original configuration and use since construction. It is based on a "combination plan", uniting the ideas behind the "auditorium plan" and "Akron Plan" that were popularized after the American Civil War. The interiors have decorative metal walls and ceilings, and cypress flooring. The stained glass windows were manufactured by Spence, Bell and Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and the tower clock is by Seth Thomas. The parsonage house, whose construction date is not known, is a Colonial Revival structure with a hip roof with dormers, and a wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist congregation in Caribou was established in 1860 with circuit ministers, and built its first sanctuary on an adjacent property in 1885. Having outgrown that space, it purchased the house next door, moved it back for use as the parsonage, and built the present sanctuary in 1912-14. The church was named in honor of Bessie Gray, the pastor&#39;s wife who was instrumental in the process of building the new facility. The church was built (and apparently also designed by) the local firm of Astle and Page.</p><br>
<p>The Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church is a historic church at 29 Capitol Hill Road in New Sweden, Maine. The congregation was established by Swedish immigrants to the area in 1871, and the Gothic Revival sanctuary was built in 1879-80. In 1896 the church was named in honor of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The church congregation was in 2003 subjected to one of the nation&#39;s largest cases of arsenic poisoning, apparently perpetrated by one of its parishioners.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church is set on the east side of Capitol Hill Road, about 0.5 mi north of its junction with New Sweden Road (Maine State Route 161). The church is a single-story wood frame structure whose exterior is finished in stucco. Its windows are uniformly Gothic style lancet-arch windows. It has a two-stage square tower, whose second stage houses a belfry with round-arched louvers. The belfry is topped by an octagonal steeple with a cross at the top. An entrance vestibule with gable roof projects from the front facade, with a double-door topped by a lancet-arched (roughly triangular) stained-glass window. One ell extends southward from the rear of the building, forming Svea Hall, the parish hall, and another smaller one extends east.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the sanctuary is largely white plastered walls, with dark stained pews and painted woodwork. The altar area is separated from the sanctuary by an elliptical carved railing and its rear wall is decorated by a large painting depicting Christ at Gethsemane. The Svea Hall, added in 1912, has pressed metal decorative walls and ceilings.</p><br>
<p>The first Swedish immigrants arrived in the area in 1870, as part of a program by the state to recruit settlers for the remote northern part of the state. These early settlers began Lutheran church services the following year, and in 1874 began planning construction of a church. The main part of the present building was completed in 1880 and dedicated in 1881 as the First Swedish Evangelical Church in Maine. In 1896 it was renamed Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church after the 17th-century King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. The town of New Sweden was incorporated in 1895. The church parsonage (extensively modified and no longer historically significant) was built in 1886, and the church hall was added in 1911-12. The interior of the church underwent major renovations in 1930, at which time the exterior (which was originally clapboarded) was redone in stucco. The small eastern addition was made in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The church received nationwide press coverage in 2003 when sixteen of its parishioners were poisoned, one fatally, by arsenic which had been added to coffee served after a church service. One week later a parishioner committed suicide, leaving a note claiming responsibility for the poisoning and claiming church politics as the reason. Another parishioner died several years later from complications associated with the poisoning.</p><br>
<p>The Maple Grove Friends Church is a historic Quaker meeting house on USA Route 1A in the Maple Grove village of southern Fort Fairfield, Maine. Built in 1863 and renovated in 1906, it is believed to be the oldest ecclesiastical building in the Fort Fairfield area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Maple Grove Friends Church is set on the west side of United States Route 1A in southern Fort Fairfield, a short way north of its junction with Up Country Road. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with clapboard siding, stone foundation, front-gable roof, and a three-stage square tower at its northeast corner. The east-facing front is dominated by a large stained-glass window and the tower, whose lower stage houses the main entrance, sheltered by a gabled hood with Italianate bracketing. The middle stage of the tower is shingled, and the upper stage has an open belfry with round-arch openings; the tower is topped by a pyramidal roof. The interior of the church is divided into the main sanctuary, which takes up two-thirds of the space, with the vestry facilities taking up the rest. The sanctuary is lined with oak pews, and there is a raised platform at the southwest corner, with a lectern. The ceiling and upper part of the walls are finished in metal paneling.</p><br>
<p>A number of Quaker families moved to the Fort Fairfield area beginning in 1859, soon bringing interest for the construction of a meeting house. When built in 1863, this building was a simple structure, lacking both the tower and the stained-glass window. In 1906 the building underwent renovation, at which time the tower and window were added; the latter was dedicated to William Penn Varney and Lydia Cook Varney, longtime leaders of the meeting. The church was opened to other religious denominations in the early decades of the 20th century, but was closed due to declining enrollments sometime after World War II. By 1972 the building had been purchased by an Orthodox Presbyterian congregation. It was given to Frontier Heritage, a local historical society, in 1995, and rededicated as a Quaker meeting house in 2000.</p><br>
<p>St. David Catholic Church is a historic church at 774 Main Street  in Madawaska, Maine. Built in 1911, it is an architecturally distinctive blend of Baroque and Italian Renaissance architecture. The congregation was the first separate Roman Catholic congregation established in Madawaska, the result of many years&#39; struggle, after the international border divided the French Catholic community here in 1842. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. David Catholic Church is set on the north side of US Route 1, between the road and the Saint John River. Its location is not far from the first landing site of the first French Acadians to arrive in the area in 1785. It is a large edifice, with a two-story facade with a central tower, and a large sanctuary behind, set on a stone foundation. The building is brick, with stone and wooden trim elements. The side walls of the sanctuary are divided into bays articulated by pilasters, with lancet-arched windows. The main facade is divided into five bays, the central three projecting. As on the sides, the bays are articulated by pilasters. There are three entrances, one at the center and two at the outer bays. All are set in round-arch openings, that in the center a more elaborate stone-trimmed setting. The second story repeats the arrangement of arched openings, with the bays flanking the center having sash windows with oriel windows above. A third level above the center bay begins the tower, which continues with an open octagonal belfry that has Corinthian columns supporting keystone arches.</p><br>
<p>The parish of St. David was established in the Diocese of Portland in 1871, after many years of petition by local French Catholics. The area had been disputed territory between Maine and neighboring New Brunswick, and the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which set the border on the Saint John River, divided the community. The Catholic population remained part of the Diocese of New Brunswick, but difficulties attending services in Canada, and the unwillingness of diocesan leaders to deal with Maine authorities prompted the drive for division, which was granted by papal decree in 1870. The parishs first church was completed in 1872; this larger church built in 1911-12 to a design by Chickering & OConnell of Boston, and was dedicated in 1913.</p><br>
<p>The Unitarian Church of Houlton is a historic church building on Military Street in Houlton, Maine. Designed by Edwin J. Lewis, Jr., and built in 1902 for an 1835 congregation, it is an architecturally eclectic structure, exhibiting medieval and Gothic features in wood. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Unitarian Church of Houlton stands at the southwest corner of Kelleran and Military Streets (the latter being United States Route 2), east of the towns downtown business district. It is a roughly rectangular structure, with a shingled exterior above a fieldstone foundation, and with a wealth of asymmetrical details. Its main facade faces north, featuring a large Gothic window in a recess in the main gable, and an entrance pavilion to the right under a similar but smaller arched recess. Gabled transepts project to either side. The entries and surrounds are decorated with heavy medieval-style timberwork, styling which is carried into the buildings Gothic interior.</p><br>
<p>The Unitarian congregation was established in Houlton 1835. Its first church was severely damaged by fire in 1888, and its second was destroyed in a major fire in 1902 that damaged a significant portion of the town. This building was designed by Boston-based architect Edwin J. Lewis, Jr., and was completed in 1902.</p><br>
<p>Watson Settlement Bridge is a historic covered bridge in eastern Littleton, Maine, United States. Built in 1911, it is one of the youngest of Maine&#39;s few surviving covered bridges. It formerly carried Framingham Road over the Meduxnekeag River, but is now closed to traffic, the road passing over a modern bridge to its south. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Watson Settlement Bridge is located in southeastern Littleton, a rural community in southern Aroostook County. The Meduxnekeag River flows north from Houlton into southeastern Littleton before turning east and crossing the international border into New Brunswick, Canada. Framingham Road, which the bridge formerly carried, crosses just south of the bridge on a modern structure. The covered bridge is about 150 ft long, with two spans resting on stone abutments and a central pier. The bases of these structures are rubblestone that has been reinforced with concrete, with a 5 ft top section that is contained within a timber cribwork. The structure is about 20 ft wide and a similar height, with an internal clearance height of 13 ft and width of 18 ft. The support system for the two spans are Howe trusses. The exterior of the bridge is finished in vertical siding, and the roof is shingled.</p><br>
<p>The bridge appears to be the first built at this location, no bridges having been marked on earlier maps of the area. It was built in 1911, and was attended by legal action between the county and the town over the cost of building its approaches, which was ultimately borne by the town. The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic with the construction of the adjacent bridge in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church, also once known as the Central Parish Church, is a historic church at 97 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1859-60, it is an excellent local example of religious Italianate architecture, and one of the state&#39;s few surviving churches designed by architect Thomas Holt. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The congregation was founded in 1859, and is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association; its current minister is Rev. Jennifer Emrich.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Parish Church is set in the center of Yarmouth, on the north side of Main Street, east of the North Yarmouth Academy and opposite Portland Street. It is a rectangular wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard and flushboard exterior, and a high brick foundation. A square section projects from the front facade, supporting a multistage tower and housing the main entrance. The entrance is set in a tall pilastered arch that also includes a pair of round-arch windows above. This stage of the tower has a rounded gable with modillioned eave, the latter detail also extended to the main roof. A plainly-pilastered square section tops this, with an eight-sided belfry above that has four round-arch openings. The tower is capped by an octagonal steeple. Windows on either side of the projecting section are two-port narrow windows, the upper section with a rounded arch top. Round-arch windows are also found on the building sides.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1859-60, and is one of four known surviving church designs in the state of Thomas Holt, an architect from Bethel, Maine. The congregation was established in 1859 by a split from the local Universalist congregation. After 1885 the congregation declined, most of its members returning to the mother congregation. The two congregations merged soon afterward, at which time the name "Central Parish Church" was adopted. In 1920 it took the name "First Universalist Church", which it retained after merging with the Unitarian congregation in 1962.</p><br>
<p>The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is an historic cathedral at 307 Congress Streets in Portland, Maine that serves as seat of the Diocese of Portland. The cathedral&#39;s pastor is Bishop Robert Deeley, and its rector is Father Gregory Dube. The church, an imposing Gothic Revival structure built in 1866-69, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Roman Catholic diocese complex occupies most of a city block, bounded by Cumberland Avenue, Locust Street, Congress Street, and Franklin Street. The main church building is set on the northwest side of the property, facing Cumberland Avenue, while the parish hall extends northeast from its rear, and the Bishops residence stands to its southeast, facing Congress Street. To the left (south) of the residence stands a two-story school. The church is an imposing masonry structure, built of red brick, with sandstone trim and a slate roof. The main façade has a central entrance recessed in a sandstone Gothic arch, with a large stained glass rose window above. The main tower rises to the right of the main entrance, with buttressed corners, narrow Gothic windows, and an octagonal spire. Windows on the side walls are also Gothic, with buttressing between. The interior of the cathedral is 186 x. The nave is 150 ft long, rises 70 ft and holds almost 1,000 worshipers. The tallest of the cathedrals three steeples is, at 204 ft, the tallest structure in the city of Portland.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1866 under the supervision of New York architect Patrick Keely. Construction of the church was interrupted by Portland&#39;s great 1866 fire, and it was not completed until September 8, 1869. The cathedral has undergone restorations in 1921, 1969, and 2000. In 1985, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The secondary buildings all have stylistically similar Gothic features.</p><br>
<p>The former Chestnut Street Methodist Church is an historic church building at 15 Chestnut Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1856, it is rare in the city as an early example of Gothic Revival architecture, and is one of the few surviving works of Charles A. Alexander, a popular architect of the period. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It now houses a restaurant.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Chestnut Street Church building is set in the city center, directly behind Portland City Hall on the east side of Chestnut Street. It is a single story masonry structure, built out of pressed brick with brownstone trim. Its slate roof is steeply pitched at the center, with a gentler slope over the outer aisles of the nave. Its foundation is brick, faced in brownstone to a height of 2 ft. Its walls are buttressed, with Gothic arched windows between the buttresses on the side walls. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of equal-height towers flanking the central gable. The towers originally had more elaborate spires, but these were removed for safety reasons in the 1950s, as were similar spires on the buttresses. There are three entrances, one at the center between the towers, and one each on the side aisles, all set in Gothic arched openings.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1856 for a Methodist congregation that had been meeting on the site since 1808. It is the first Methodist church into which an organ was installed. The building was designed by Charles A. Alexander, who designed a number of high-profile buildings in Portland in the 1850s, all of the others having either been demolished or significantly altered. The early Gothic style is also rare in Portland, as many buildings from the 1850s and early 1860s were lost in the 1866 fire.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, the Maine Women&#39;s Suffragist Association held their 24th annual convention at the church. The building was restored and converted into Grace restaurant in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Cousins Island Chapel is an historic non-denominational chapel on Cousins Road on Cousins Island, an island Casco Bay off the coast of Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1894 by local year-round residents, it is the most architecturally notable building on the island, and is representative of a late 19th-century trend of building summer chapels in coastal Maine. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Cousins Island is a roughly oblong island located just off the coast of Yarmouth, Maine, to which municipality it belongs. It is joined to the mainland by a causeway, and is connected via a second causeway to the small Littlejohn Island to its east. The Cousins Island Chapel is located near the center of Cousins Island, on the east side of the main road (Cousins Road), just north of its junction with the road leading to Littlejohn Island. The chapel is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof, and an exterior finished in a combination of wooden shingles and board-and-batten siding. It is oriented with its long axis parallel to the road, with a band of sash windows offset to the left of center on the street-facing facade, and a hip-roofed entrance porch to the right. The gable ends have lancet-arched windows, some with stained glass, with board-and-batten siding in the gables. There are decorative sawn brackets at the lower edge of the roof where it flare out slightly.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1894-95 by volunteer labor organized by the Yarmouth First Baptist Church, to provide a place of worship for the residents of Cousins and Littlejohn Islands. Although most of the services held there were Baptist, the building was open to all denominations. It was used regularly for services until World War II, and is now maintained by a local nonprofit group that organizes periodic summer services. The chapel is one of a series of architecturally distinctive coastal chapels built in Maine during the late 19th century, although it is distinguished from the others in that it was built for year-round residents, rather than for summer visitors.</p><br>
<p>The West Scarborough United Methodist Church, also known as the Dunstan Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church on USA Route 1 in Scarborough, Maine. The church building, built in 1839 and extensively altered in 1907, is one of the few surviving works of Maine architect and artist Harry Hayman Cochrane. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for its architectural significance.</p><br>
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<p>The West Scarborough United Methodist Church is located in southern Scarborough, on the south side of US 1, between Orchard and Church Streets. It is a basically rectangular single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and an exterior finished clapboard and wood shingle siding. The front facade, facing north toward US 1, has a single large lancet-arch window at the center of the gabled nave section, and a slightly project square tower at the northeast corner. The tower houses the main entrance, wheltered by a shed-roof porch accessed by a low flight of wooden stairs, with a narrow lancet-arch window above and open belfry capped by a pyramidal roof. The east wall of the nave has five lancet-arch windows, of varying sizes, and the west wall has three symmetrically placed windows. The parish house extends from the southwest corner. The building interior has stained wainscoting on the walls, topped by pressed metal walls and ceiling. A raised platform extends from the chancel into the nave, housing space for the choir and organ, and curved rows of pews line the main space of the nave.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was established in 1802, and initially met in an abandoned Congregational church. This church, the second built by the congregation, was built in 1839 as a Greek Revival structure. In 1907 the congregation undertook a major renovation of the building, retaining Monmouth, Maine-based architect and artist Harry Hayman Cochrane. Cochrane was a prolific designer, and is believed to have worked on an estimated 300-500 commissions. This church is one of only nine known to survive, and is the only one outside Monmouth. Alterations to the building included changing the roof to a steeper pitch, adding the tower, and replacing sash windows with Gothic stained glass. The interior walls, which might otherwise have had murals painted by Cochrane, may have been finished in metal as a cost-saving measure.</p><br>
<p>The East Harpswell Free Will Baptist Church is a historic church on Cundys Harbor Road in East Harpswell, Maine. Built in 1843, it is a little-altered modest Greek Revival structure, with a reversed interior layout  that is now extremely rare within the state. It has been used only sporadically since the early 20th century, but is maintained by a local community group. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The East Harpswell Free Will Baptist Church is located on the west side of Cundys Harbor Road, the main thoroughfare on Sebascodegan Island, which makes up the easternmost portion of the town of Harpswell. It is a simple, rectangular wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its main facade, facing east toward the road, is symmetrical, with two bays articulated by pilasters that rise to a plain frieze board, with a fully pedimented gable above. Each bay houses an entrance, flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and corniced entablature. The side walls each have two sash windows, and there is a single window on the back wall. The entries open into a narrow vestibule/hall space, set behind the pulpit, with interior doors that open into the main sanctuary on either side. The sanctuary has a coved plaster ceiling and three groups of original box pews, with a raised platform at the rear containing more pews.</p><br>
<p>The Free Will Baptist congregation on Sebascodegan Island was organized in 1817; where it met prior to construction of this building is not known with certainty. In 1843, the land for this building was purchased, and the building was probably built soon thereafter. The congregation&#39;s height in terms of size was between about 1840 and 1864, after which a steady decline began. By the early 20th century the congregation was moribund, and services were discontinued. There was a brief revival in the 1930s, when the building underwent some maintenance. Since the 1960s the building has been maintained by the local garden club, and is occasionally used for services and other events.</p><br>
<p>The building is one of twelve in the state that were once known to have the reverse orientation, with the pulpit set between the entrances. Most of these have either been altered to a more conventional orientation, or even demolished. The only other high-quality example of the form is the Federal period Lincolnville Center Meeting House in Lincolnville.</p><br>
<p>The East Raymond Union Chapel is a historic chapel at 394 Webbs Mills Road in East Raymond, Maine. Built in 1890, it is a modest wood-frame building with Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styling. It has served as a non-denominational religious meeting place for much of its time; it is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Casco Village Church in Casco. It has scheduled services during the summer. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
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<p>The East Raymond Union Chapel is located on the south side of Webbs Mill Road (Maine State Route 85) in the center of the rural village of East Raymond. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof and a square tower at its northeast corner. The exterior is clad in a combination of clapboards and decorative wooden shingles. The three-stage tower houses the building entrance in a Gothic-arched recess on the ground floor, and an open belfry at the top, with pointed-arch openings and gablets rising above, into the pyramidal roof. The main front facade has a single bay with a pair of narrow sash windows under a Queen Anne hood, and a similar single sash window in the gable above. The interior of the church has original pine bench pews, and a raised altar platform with Eastlake-style furnishings.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was built between 1880 and 1890 as a local community project, organized under the auspices of a benevolent society established for the purpose. It does not have a known designer, and its design represents a late use of Gothic Revival elements (which had fallen out of fashion in Maine in the 1850s), and a modern (for the period) use of Queen Anne and Eastlake elements. The building has had relatively few alterations since its construction, principally to accommodate a ramp at the entrance.</p><br>
<p>First Parish Church is an historic church at 425 Congress Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1825 for a congregation established in 1674, it is the oldest church building in the city, and one of its finest examples of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The congregation is Unitarian Universalist; its pastor is Reverend Christina Sillari.</p><br>
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<p>The First Parish Church stands on the north side of Congress Street in the civic heart of Portland, with Portland City Hall a short way to the east, the public library a short way west, and Portland High School immediately to its north. The church is a tall single-story structure, built out of granite from Freeport. The granite is ashlar, except for finely dressed corner quoining. The building is basically rectangular, with a projecting three-bay entrance vestibule, from which a square tower projects slightly further. The three entrances are set in round-arch openings with a fanlight above. The multistage tower has an arched louver above a marble date panel at the second stage, and a clock at the third stage, which is differentiated from the second by rounded corners. The belfry is octagonal, with round-arch louvered openings, and is topped by a smaller octagonal cupola and a short spire.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was founded in 1674, when Portland was known as Falmouth, and its early history was interrupted by Native American attacks. Its period of continuous history begins in 1718, when it began meeting in a log church, which was replaced in 1721 and again in 1740 by frame structures. The latter was where a convention was held to draft the soon-to-be states first constitution in 1819 (statehood being awarded the following year). This church was built on the site of the 1740 church, and was the first major granite structure east of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The building was the only one in the surrounding area to survive Portlands great fire of 1866.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Church is a historic church at 207 Maine Street in Brunswick, Maine. Built in 1845 to a design by Richard Upjohn, it is a unique example of Gothic Revival architecture done in wood, as the church was built with vertical board-and-batten paneling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. The congregation dates to 1717, and is affiliated with the United Church of Christ; the pastor is Rev. Mary Baard.</p><br>
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<p>The First Parish Church occupies a prominent location on a rise between downtown Brunswick and the Bowdoin College campus, which lies directly to its south. It is a single-story wood frame structure, whose Gothic Revival features include a buttressed tower, lancet-arched openings for doors and windows, and vertical board-and-batten siding. It originally had a spire, which was blown off in a storm in 1866 and not replaced.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was founded in 1717, for which this is the fourth church. It was built, on the site of the third church, in 1846 by the labor of the congregation, to a design by the noted American architect Richard Upjohn. Funding was provided in part by Bowdoin College, and it has been used by the college for commencement exercises and other activities. The attached vestry was built in 1883.</p><br>
<p>On May 2, 1851, American author Harriet Beecher Stowe had a vision while sitting in pew 23 here wherein she saw an enslaved man wounded from a beating he endured from his enslaver. The incident inspired her book Uncle Tom&#39;s Cabin. After years in disrepair, the church underwent extensive restoration, which was completed in 2004; the restoration earned the church a Maine Preservation Honor Award in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Congregational Church is a historic church at 116 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, USA. The congregation was established in 1730, as the ninth church founded in what is now Maine. The current Italianate meeting house was constructed in 1867-68, and is an important surviving design of Portland architect George M. Harding. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
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<p>Yarmouth&#39;s First Parish Congregational Church is located to the east of the town center, on the south side of Main Street (Maine State Route 115). It is a tall single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, an exterior sheathed in clapboard and flushboarded siding, and a granite foundation. A square tower projects slightly from the front, with a gabled entry vestibule projecting further in front of it. The entry consists of a pair of doorways, each flanked by thin composite columns and set in round-arch openings. A larger three-part round-arch window stands above them, with a banded frieze along the raking gable edge of the vestibule. The tower has four stages, and is elaborately decorated, with an open belfry and an octagonal spire.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish congregation was established in 1730, and first met in a meetinghouse about 1 mi south of this location. In 1818 they moved to a new building roughly across the street (at present-day 121 Main Street) from the present building. That building was turned into a public hall after the congregation moved out in 1868, and was demolished in 1879. The cost of the new church was $35,000.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed for the congregation by Portland architect George M. Harding, one of Maine&#39;s leading architects of the mid-19th century. It is one of only three church designs of his to survive in the state.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Meetinghouse, also known as the Old Red Church, is a historic church building on Oak Hill Road in Standish, Maine. Built 1804-06, it is a well-preserved example of rural Federal period design. The building has served the community as a church and school, and is still occasionally used for religious services. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
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<p>The Old Red Church stands in the main village of Standish, near its northern edge, on the northeasteast side of Oak Hill Road. The church is a two story wood frame structure, with front-facing gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. The front facade, facing the street, is symmetrically arranged, with two entrance set widely apart, with flanking sash windows to the outside, and sash windows above. The main gable has a full pediment, with a Federal period fan louver at the center. The facade is topped by a two-stage square tower, with an belfry open belfry at the second stage, and a balustrade at the top with finialed posts.</p><br>
<p>The interior originally had a large two-story meeting space with a gallery around part of the second floor. In 1848 the second floor was built out fully as part of the building&#39;s conversion to educational use. The original box pews and pulpit remain on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1804-06 on land donated by the Rev. Daniel Marrett, and served a Congregationalist congregation. In 1834 the congregation split over Unitarianism, with the Unitarian faction retaining the building. It used the building for religious services until 1860, adding the second story in 1848 to house a short-lived academy. In the 1890s and 1900s the building was again briefly used for education purposes, as the town high school.</p><br>
<p>Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house on Quaker Ridge Road in Casco, Maine. Built in 1814, it is the oldest surviving Quaker meeting house in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
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<p>The Friends Meetinghouse is located in a rural area of central Casco, on the west side of Quaker Ridge Road, about 0.75 mi south of Maine State Route 11. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and narrow clapboard siding. A shed-roofed entrance vestibule projects from the left side of the building, its roof extending from roughly the mid-point of the main roof slope. The front facade has single sash windows at the main and attic levels. The interior of the main space is divided roughly in two, with a fixed partition wall that has openable shutters on its upper half; this was so that the sexes would be divided, according to Quaker custom, while allowing communication between the sides to take place. The space is furnished with high-backed bench pews and a small parlor organ.</p><br>
<p>Quakers first appeared in Maine in 1730, but did not begin to spread into the states interior until the late 19th century. This meeting house was built in 1814. It served as the site of Cascos first town meeting, after it was separated from Raymond in 1841. Regular services ended in 1921, but the building has been used for annual or summer services since, primarily by summer residents.</p><br>
<p>The Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church  is a historic church at 46 Sheridan Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1914, it is home to Maine&#39;s oldest African-American congregation; it is named for Moses Green, an escaped slave. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
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<p>The Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church is located in Portland&#39;s eastern Munjoy Hill neighborhood, at the corner of Sheridan and Monument Streets. It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of concrete blocks and finished with a rough textured exterior. The building corners are partially quoined with smooth blocks. First-floor windows are rectangular sash, while second-floor windows have Gothic lancet arches, and are stained glass. The entrance is near the street corner, sheltered by an open gable-roofed wood frame vestibule; a short wood-frame tower rises through the roof above.</p><br>
<p>Portlands Abyssinian Society was founded in 1828, and originally met in the Abyssinian Meeting House, one of the nations oldest surviving African-American churches. A separate African-American congregation, the Fourth Abyssinian, was split off from the Second Parish Church in 1835 and merged into the Abyssinian in 1842. This church was built for that congregation in 1914, and was described in contemporary reports as "one of the most pretentious churches for a Black congregation in New England".</p><br>
<p>The Elijah Kellogg Church is a historic Congregationalist church at 917 Harpswell Neck Road  in Harpswell, Maine. Built in 1843, it is a well-preserved example of Greek and Gothic Revival architecture, and is further notable for its longtime association with Rev. Elijah Kellogg, a well-known 19th-century writer of children&#39;s books. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The church is affiliated with the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches; its pastor is John Carson.</p><br>
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<p>The Elijah Kellogg Church is located in Harpswell Center, on the east side of Harpswell Neck Road, opposite the 1750s Harpswell Meetinghouse. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, exterior mostly finished in clapboards, and a granite foundation. The roof is capped by a multi-stage tower, whose short first stage is finished in matchboard, with a taller second stage with corner pilasters, and an open square belfry with an entablatured cornice supported by pilastered posts, and a steeple above. The most prominent feature of the main facade is the entrance, which is set in an ogee-carved archway with tracery windows above and flanking the doors. Paired pilasters are set at the building corners, rising to a fully pedimented triangular pediment. The side walls are divided into two bays, articulated by pilasters, with sash windows topped by lancet-arched louvers.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1843, by a Congregationalist church congregation whose roots dated to 1753. The church was built in response to a controversy over ownership of the old meetinghouse, which was built prior to the principles of separation of church and state, and had been used for both civic and religious functions. The churchs first pastor was Rev. Elijah Kellogg, then recently graduated from nearby Bowdoin College. Kellogg served as pastor until 1854, but remained attached to the town, retiring to Harpswell in 1882, and again serving the church from 1889 until his death in 1901. Kellogg is best known as an author of a series of childrens books.</p><br>
<p>Mariners Church  is a historic church and commercial building at 368-374 Fore Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1828, the Greek Revival building historically served as both a church and marketplace. It was for many years the citys largest commercial building, and survived the city&#39;s great 1866 fire. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is now home to the Old Port Tavern and other commercial businesses.</p><br>
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<p>The former Mariners Church occupies much a city block in Portlands Old Port area. It occupies a trapezoidal lot bounded on the north by Fore Street, the east by Market Street, and the west by Moulton Street, with its main facade facing toward Fore Street. It is a three story masonry structure, built of granite and brick, with a broad gabled roof. The main facade has six storefronts on the ground floor, each with a recessed entrance flanked on one side by a large fixed-pane display window. The second floor has a bank of twelve round-arch windows, with rectangular windows on the third level. The gable above is fully pedimented, with a fanlight window near the center of its base. The building&#39;s corners are rounded, the left one in brick and the right one in stone. The main facade is predominantly stone, with the street-facing side walls mainly brick.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1828 and was used for "moral and religious" instruction of local mariners, with the buildings upkeep supported by the commercial businesses on its ground floor. The building was damaged in the citys 1866 fire. In 1969 the building was purchased by C.H. Robinson who saved it from demolition. In 1973 the building opened as a restaurant known as the Old Port Tavern, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places that same year. Today the building is used for events as the Mariner’s Church Banquet Center and also contains a billiards hall.</p><br>
<p>The North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as the Old Baptist Meeting House, is an historic church on Hillside Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1796 and twice altered in the 19th century, it is believed to be the oldest surviving church built for a Baptist congregation in the state of Maine. It is now owned by the town and maintained by a local non-profit organization.</p><br>
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<p>The North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meetinghouse is located on the west side of Hillside Street, a short way south of Maine State Route 115 on the west side of Yarmouth village. It is a tall single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. The front facade is five bays wide, the central three projecting in a gable-topped section from which the church tower rises. The central section has three doors, the outer ones topped by lancet-arched windows, the center one framed by pilasters and a corniced entablature. Windows on the front are tall lancet-arched sash, while those on the sides are rectangular sash. The tower has a square first stage, with an open octagonal belfry topped by a conical flush-boarded spire.</p><br>
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<p>The church building was constructed in 1796 by the local Baptist congregation. In 1889 the Baptist congregation moved to its current location on Main Street. In 1890 George and Ellen Hammond purchased the Old Baptist Meeting House and re-opened it as a library and antiquarian society. In 1910 they donated the building to the town, and it was used for town meetings until 1946. During World War II the building was used by the Civilian Defense System as an observation post, looking for enemy aircraft. In 1946 the Village Improvement Society took over responsibility for the interior of the building. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Major renovations occurred in the early 2000s. The building is currently available for weddings and other events.</p><br>
