<p>The Universalist Meeting House is a historic church on Maine State Route 231 in the Intervale area of New Gloucester, Maine. Built in 1839, it is a fine example of a Greek Revival church in a rural context. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Universalist Meeting House stands on a rural stretch of SR 231 in southern New Gloucester, on the west side of the road, a short way north of its junction with Dougherty Road. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. It has no tower. The building corners are pilastered, rising to an entablature that encircles the building. The front gable is fully pedimented, with molded trim and a flushboarded central tympanum. The main facade has a pair of entries flanking a central window. Each entrance is framed by simple molded surrounds, and have separately-framed multipane windows above (now protected by wooden boards). The doors open into separate vestibules, with stairs leading up to a gallery level, and entrances to side aisles in the nave. The nave floor slopes downward slight, ending in a raised sanctuary area. The pews are original.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1839 for a Universalist congregation established in 1805. The congregation was always financially troubled, but experienced occasional revivals until finally declining in the 1950s. The building was acquired by the local historical society in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Union Church is a historic church on United States Route 302 in Naples, Maine. Built in 1857, it is an excellent local example of Greek Revival architecture with Gothic features. Built for use by three different church groups, it now serves as a summer church and community hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Union Church stands in the town center of Naples, on the south side of US 302, just east of the Naples Public Library. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. A two-stage square tower rises from the roof ridge, the first stage with corner pilasters, and the second with pilasters and louvered lancet-arched belfry openings. It is topped by a slender spire. The front facade, facing north, has pilastered corners rising to an entablature and a fully pedimented gable, which has a triangular louvered panel at its center. Identical entrances flank a sash window, each framed by pilasters and an entablature.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1857 (the same year as the Methodist church a short distance west of here), and was originally shared by a Congregationalist group and two Free Will Baptist organizations. By the 1870s the size of these groups had dwindled to the point where they could apparently no longer support full-time ministers, and the building fell into intermittent use. It underwent some alteration in the 1950s, when it saw brief use by an Episcopalian congregation, but most of these changes have been reversed. It is now used as a community resource, hosting social events and occasional religious services.</p><br>
<p>Union Church is a historic church on Harpswell Neck Road  in North Harpswell, Maine. Built in 1841, it is architecturally a distinctive and well-preserved combination of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. It was used over the years by a variety of religious groups, and is now maintained by the Harpswell Garden Club. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Union Church is located on the east side of Harpswell Neck Road, the principal north-south route in the peninsular community of Harpswell. It is located in the cluster of mainly residential buildings that make up the village of North Harpswell, a short way south of Bear Paw Road. The church is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. It has no tower. Its front facade faces west to the road, and is symmetrically arranged, with a center entrance framed by pilasters with lancet-arched panels and topped by an entablature with cornice. On either side of the entrance are sash windows, and outside those are pairs of taller lancet-paneled pilasters, which support an entablature and fully pedimented gabled. The interior is essentially unchanged since its construction, with a vestibule area that has two doors leading to aisles in the nave, which has bench pews accessed by low doors.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s construction date is traditionally given as 1841, although it is unclear exactly what religious organizations used it, as the only document supporting this date is a December 1840 promise by thirty residents to purchase pews in the contemplated structure. A Universalist society used the church beginning in 1844, but it declined by the 1870s, when it was used by Congregationalists. The Congregationalists abandoned the church in the 1920s, and it sat vacant until 1969, when it was taken over by the Harpswell Garden Club, which restored it and now maintains it.</p><br>
<p>The Elder Grey Meetinghouse is a historic church on Chadbourne Ridge Road in North Waterboro, Maine. Built in 1806, it is one of Maine&#39;s oldest churches. The building is now maintained by a preservation association, which hosts annual services each August. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Elder Grey Meetinghouse is located on the west side of Chadbourne Ridge Road in a rural part of northeastern Waterboro. It stands on a small grassy plot, fringed by trees, with a cemetery across the street. The building is a simple single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a fieldstone foundation. The main facade is five bays wide, with a pair of entrances set between sash windows in the outer and central bays. The side elevations each have four sash windows. Trim is quite simple throughout, and there is no tower.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1806, and originally served as a union church with a primarily Baptist affiliation. It is named for Elder James Grey, a Lyman-born pastor who served the church for main years in the first half of the 19th century. Greys long service and a devoted congregation prompted them to move the building nearly 4 mi in 1832, so that it would be closer to the then-elderly Greys home. The congregation&#39;s enrollment declined by the 1880s, and the building was abandoned for a time. After a brief revival in the 1890s, it was again abandoned. Local preservationists then banded together, forming an association to preserve the structure. It now hosts an annual "pilgrimage service" each August.</p><br>
<p>Germania Wine Cellars, or Olde Germania Wine Cellars, is a historic winery complex and national historic district located at Hammondsport in Steuben County, New York, United States. The complex was built in nine sections between 1881 and 1902. The majority of the buildings are built of local stone, portions of which are coated in stucco. The complex is currently used for barrel storage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Pulteney Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Hammondsport in Steuben County, New York. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, one contributing structure , one contributing site , and three contributing secondary buildings. The structures are clustered around Pulteney Square, a village green roughly 140 feet square, and date from the 1820s to 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Court Street Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was designed by city engineer J. Y. McClintock, constructed in 1893, and spans the Genesee River. It has six shallow arches over the river and two arches over the Johnson and Seymour Raceway and Erie Canal. Shallow arch spans are 52 feet and rises vary from 13 to 20 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Main Street Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1857 and spans the Genesee River. It has five segmental arches with spans of 30 to 42 ft and rises of 8 -.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Previous structures</h3><br>
<p>The first bridge on this position, constructed on wooden piers, was built in 1810–12. The roadway was level with the east bank, meaning that the bridge had to be reached via a ramp from the lower west bank. This bridge was replaced in 1824. Over the first few years of the second bridge&#39;s existence, buildings began to be constructed along the bridge, a situation legally permitted due to fact that the river is not navigable at this point. In 1827 a market was constructed on the north side, its west end resting on the Front Street wall and its east end supported by the westernmost pier of the bridge. An early directory described it as consisting of an open platform, adjoining the bridge, of 20 feet, designed for a vegetable market; next, a raised platform, in a range with and corresponding to the sidewalks of Buffalo and Main-streets, of which the market will serve as a continuation. Next to this, is the covered meat market, having in the center a walk of 12 feet wide, between two rows of turned columns, and on either side, the places for stalls, each 10 by 14 feet.</p><br>
<p>By 1830 almost the whole north side of the bridge was occupied by buildings. Those resting entirely on the bridge were made of wood, but there was a four-story structure called the Globe Building at the east end, resting only partly on the bridge. Housing small manufacturing workshops, it had waterwheels housed beneath it. The south side of the bridge remained open. The wooden buildings were destroyed by fire in January 1834. They were, except for the market, soon rebuilt, but a flood in October of the next year removed them again. The flood damage also made the rebuilding of the bridge desirable, and a new structure was begun in 1837. Plans for a stone bridge were dropped, but two stone piers were built and the eastern abutment was raised to lessen the gradient up Main Street hill. The bridge was completed by September, 1838, and its north side was soon occupied by one- and two-storey wooden buildings housing shops, mostly selling clothing or dry goods.</p><br>
<h3>Present structure</h3><br>
<p>Work on the present stone structure began in September 1855, and it was opened in August 1857, although a considerable amount of work remained to be done. Construction of shops on the north side began almost immediately, this time in stone rather than wood, and supported on extensions to the bridge piers and river walls. The bridge was widened on the south side in 1861–2, and buildings started to be constructed on the south side in 1865. The buildings were removed in the mid-1960s.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Erie Canal: Second Genesee Aqueduct, also known as the Broad Street Aqueduct or Broad Street Bridge, is a historic stone aqueduct located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1836–1842 and originally carried the Erie Canal over the Genesee River. The overall length of the aqueduct including the wings and abutments is 800 ft. The aqueduct is 70 ft wide and has large parapets on either side. It is one of four major aqueducts in the mid-19th century Erie Canal system. In 1927, a roadbed was added to carry automobile traffic and named Broad Street. It also carried a part of the Rochester Subway.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, a project called Aqueduct Reimagined was announced under the city&#39;s ROC the Riverway initiative, which proposes removing the automotive road deck to create a pedestrian space and creating walkway connections to nearby waterfront pathways. An early proposal involved partially re-flooding the former canal and subway bed on the aqueduct with water similar to the Canalside project in Buffalo, NY. An alternate concept moved into community engagement and design phases in 2022.</p><br>
<p>The aqueduct was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Wilder Building is a historic office building located in Rochester, New York. It is an eleven-story steel or iron framed brick clad structure built between 1887 and 1888 in a modified Romanesque style. It is considered Rochester&#39;s first modern skyscraper, and is considered to be among the oldest of the early skyscrapers. It was designed by noted Rochester architects Warner & Brockett. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Wilder Building originally contained spires at each corner of its roof, but they have since been removed.</p><br>
<h2>Mail Chute</h2><br>
<p>James Goold Cutler received on September 11, 1883 for the mail chute. The first one was installed in 1884 in the Elwood Building. Then, during its 1887 construction, Cutler installed a perfected mail chute in the Wilder Building. With the Elwood Building having been demolished in 1965, the Wilder Building&#39;s mail chute is currently the oldest surviving one.</p><br>
<p>H. H. Warner Building is a historic office building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is a large, seven-story commercial building built in 1883–1884. It is constructed of load-bearing brick walls, a cast-iron vault, timber framework, and a cast-iron facade on St. Paul St. Originally built to house a patent medicine laboratory and warehouse, it now houses retail and apartments. The building has a Venetian Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Gannett Building is an industrial and commercial building located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is a Classical Revival style structure constructed in 1927, with four major later additions. It was built to house the consolidated offices and newspaper printing facilities for the Gannett Newspapers chain.</p><br>
<p>One of the buildings most visible features is a relief sculpture over the entrance of its east side. It was created by Italian sculptor Edmond Amateis. The works central figure is Truth, guarding the eternal flame of enlightenment. The figures on the left are Fine Arts and Industry. On the right are Law and Agriculture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The five story 1949 addition was designed by Albert Kahn to house the printing presses until the presses were moved to nearby Greece and replaced in 1996. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building also formerly housed the local Democrat and Chronicle, one of largest papers in the Gannett chain from 1959 until 2016 as well as fellow original Gannett newspaper and later former sister evening paper The Times-Union from the opening of the building until the paper&#39;s demise in 1996.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 it was announced that Gannett was selling the Gannett building and moving the Democrat and Chronicle to a new building at the corner of Main Street and Clinton Ave on the former Midtown Plaza site. At 153,350 ft&sup2, the Gannett building is considerably larger than the new headquarters, which is 42,000 ft&sup2;. The paper no longer needed the considerable space in the new digital age where newsprint in the United States is on the decline and the building which includes the space that formerly held the presses is expensive to maintain. As of April 2014, the Gannett building was on the market for sale at an asking price of $3.5 million. The Democrat and Chronicle moved to its new location on May 2, 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Future</h2><br>
<p>The Gannett Building post-Democrat and Chronicle is focused on office use. Developers plan to renovate the building into a full office building for multiple tenants with the added possibility of using the basement and former space that once held the presses as in building parking. The in building parking however that is dependent on the ability to use a portion of the former Rochester Subway which connects with the basement via two doorways formerly used to bring in printing paper for the presses as a vehicle entrance and exit to the in building parking area. The large, open floors make it attractive to tenants. Other possible uses include part residential and part ground floor retail.</p><br>
<p>Snow School is a historic school building in the rural community of Snow, Oklahoma, approximately 18 miles north of Antlers, Oklahoma. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Snow was originally a small community located amid the timber lands of the Kiamichi Mountains. It possessed a school, stores, churches, and homes. During recent decades the school closed; its students are bused to public schools in Antlers.</p><br>
<p>Its school was maintained by the community, which also hired and provided a salary for its teacher. Teachers during the community&#39;s early days were not required to possess formal education degrees conferred by universities; some were only high school graduates.</p><br>
<h2>The school</h2><br>
<p>Built from a pattern book created by the Oklahoma Department of Education, Snow School was initially a two-room structure. It was built of native sandstone and has a hipped roof (also called a hip roof) with a central gable—an unusual architectural feature in Pushmataha County. It was constructed during 1936-37 by local men. The Works Progress Administration, a Great Depression-era federal government agency, was responsible for its construction.</p><br>
<p>The WPA&#39;s school at Snow is one of several built in the county. Other notable WPA school buildings were built in Antlers, Clayton, Fewell, Kellond, Jumbo, Moyers, and Rattan. School buildings in Antlers and Clayton are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>More information on Snow may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>H. C. Cohn Company Building–Andrews Building is a historic industrial and commercial building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is a five-story masonry structure built in 1889 for the H. C. Cohn Company, a manufacturer of men&#39;s neckwear and silk ties. It housed the successor of H.C. Cohn Company, Superba Cravats, until 1983. The Andrews Street facade is detailed with Medina sandstone and corbelled brick in Romanesque Revival style. A two-story brick masonry addition was completed about 1955.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Mato Kósyk House was a private residence in Albion, Oklahoma. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Mato Kósyk</h2><br>
<p>Mato Kósyk (1853–1940) was a well-known poet who is considered one of the chief writers of Sorbian, a Slavic language spoken in the Lusatia region of eastern Germany. Kósyk emigrated from Lusatia to the United States during the 19th century, eventually settling in rural Albion, due to its healthy and scenic location amidst the Kiamichi Mountains. At the time of his death Kósyk&#39;s writings were actively suppressed by the Nazi government in Germany, which considered Sorbian nationalism a threat to its regime.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>Kósyk&#39;s home was located approximately one-third mile west of Albion. It was a somewhat unprepossessing home, the chief architectural feature of which was a porch wrapped around two sides. It contained a small kitchen on the southwest corner, a large dining room, living room with fireplace, three bedrooms and--added later when the Whitfields owned the property--a modern bathroom. The home, built in approximately 1910, featured a beautiful view of the Kiamichi Mountains. The home was notable for being the sole surviving structure associated with Kósyk. The house fell into disrepair and sustained additional storm damage around 2019, further compromising the structure. The house is no longer in existence.</p><br>
<p>The Court–Exchange Building  is a historic industrial and commercial building located at 142 Exchange Street  in Rochester, New York.</p><br>
<p>It is a six-story brick structure with Richardsonian Romanesque details designed by Harvey Ellis and built in 1881 for Samuel Stein, a local manufacturer of wooden caskets. When Stein retired in 1890, he sold his business to the National Casket Company. The building was used until 1984 to manufacture, display, and warehouse caskets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Michaels–Stern Building is a historic industrial and commercial building located at 87 North Clinton Avenue in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a seven-story, rectangular brick structure with Beaux Arts details. It was built in 1893 for Michaels, Stern, and Company, a manufacturer of ready-to-wear apparel. The building served as manufacturing, office, wholesale and retail functions for the firm until they closed in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Kirstein Building is a historic industrial and commercial building located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is a six-story, large triangular yellow brick structure with Classical Revival details. It was built in 1908 for E. Kirstein and Sons, Co., later Shuron Optical Company, a manufacturer of optical products. The company continued to use the building for offices and production until 1965.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 1985.</p><br>
<p>First National Bank of Rochester–Old Monroe County Savings Bank Building is a historic bank building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is currently home to Lifetime Financial Group, LLC. It was built in 1924 for the Monroe County Savings Bank in the Classical Revival style. The State Street facade is built of dressed marble and is composed of a Corinthian order hexastyle portico in antis, supporting an entablature with pediment and an elevated attic story. The interior of the bank consists of a large central banking room with a 52-foot-high cove ceiling with a rectangular skylight and Corinthian order details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Reynolds Arcade is an office building located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>It is an eleven-story, Art Deco style commercial / office building with arcaded shops on the first floor. It was built in 1933 of steel frame construction and is faced on the exterior with Indiana limestone. The central portion of the building is a five bay, eleven story "tower" which steps back from the fifth floor.</p><br>
<p>It replaced a building with the same name that was constructed in 1829. The most ambitious structure in Rochester at that time, it was, according to Joseph W. Barnes, a Rochester City Historian, "the center of Rochester downtown life for more than a century."</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Sibley Triangle Building is a historic commercial building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is a five-story, triangular, flat-iron shaped, brick commercial building with Indiana limestone and marble trim on the first two stories. It was built in 1897 and is a distinguished example of eclectic Italian Renaissance style architecture. It was designed by noted Rochester architect J. Foster Warner and built for Hiram W. Sibley, a son of Hiram Sibley.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Rundel Memorial Building is a historic library building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is the original downtown site of the Rochester Public Library, and along with the Bausch & Lomb Library Building directly across the street, serves as the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County. It is framed in reinforced concrete and faced in smooth Indiana limestone, and consists of three main floors: a mezzanine, two underground levels, a catwalk level above the river, and a penthouse area for equipment. It was constructed between 1934 and 1936, and represents an integration of Beaux-Arts planning and massing with Art Deco detailing and stylization. The building is sited along the east side of the Genesee River directly above the Johnson and Seymour millrace and Rochester Subway. It was built in part with monies from the estate of Morton W. Rundel and with a grant from the Public Works Administration.</p><br>
<p>It is a work of prominent Rochester architectural firm Gordon & Kaelber</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Jewish Young Mens and Womens Association is a historic Jewish community center building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1931&ndash;1935 and is a complex of three connected buildings: an administration building, an auditorium / theater, and a handball court building. The buildings are of steel frame and reinforced concrete construction with exterior walls of brick veneer. The buildings feature Colonial Revival style details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Chester Dewey School No. 14 is a historic school building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1915-1916 and is a two-story, brown brick structure. The eclectic design freely combines elements and details inspired by the Italian Renaissance, including its eleven bay loggia.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building is currently home to World of Inquiry School No. 58, a K–12 school.</p><br>
<p>Chester Dewey School entrance.jpgDetail of the school entrance</p><br>
<p>Rochester City School No. 24, also known as School #24 and Ellwanger and Barry School, is a historic school building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1913 and is a one-story, Spanish Colonial Revival style building. The walls are constructed of hollow tile sheathed with brick and plaster and the hipped roof is covered in red Spanish tile.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The building replaced an earlier structure, which sat across the Meigs Street &ndash; Linden Street intersection from the current building, on land donated by local nurserymen George Ellwanger and Patrick Barry. The original Ellwanger and Barry School was built in 1877 and expanded in 1888 and 1890, but it was replaced by the new school building in 1913.</p><br>
<p>The new school building boasted a number of modern amenities, along with a diverse set of curricular and extra-curricular activities. In particular, the building focused on student safety, becoming one of the first schools in the country to design each classroom with an external entrance. This inspired its early nickname, "The Safety First School", and inspired planners from across the country to incorporate similar design principles.</p><br>
<p>The schools enrollment declined in the 1970s from a peak of more than 600 students. The 1978&ndash;79 school year was the buildings last as a school, and in 1980 the building (making use of the many external doors) was converted to condominiums.</p><br>
<p>Riga Academy is a historic building located at Riga in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1811 and is a two-story, five bay Federal style building. Built originally as a tavern and inn, it was converted for use as an academy in 1846. It was used as a school from 1847 to 1861, at which time it became a private residence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Liljestrand House at 3300 Tantalus Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii, was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff for Betty and Howard Liljestrand, a doctor and nurse who had bought the hillside site overlooking downtown Oahu in 1948. Completed in 1952, the house "was perhaps Ossipoff&#39;s most intricate as well as his most widely publicized domestic commission." After it was featured in House Beautiful magazine as a Pace Setter House in 1958, it attracted hundreds of visitors in organized weekly tours. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>Howard Liljestrand was the son of missionaries to Sichuan, China, where he had been raised. After completing medical degrees in the United States, he and Betty arrived in Hawaii in 1937 en route to China. However, the chaos that followed the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War earlier that year convinced them to pause in Honolulu, where both found employment at The Queen&#39;s Medical Center. Eventually they decided to settle in the Islands, build a home, and raise a family.</p><br>
<p>It took the Liljestrands until 1946 to find the perfect spot: on a secluded hillside, but within easy reach of work, school, and town. Howard had enjoyed youthful summers in China at a mountain retreat, and he and Betty often roamed the wooded ridge christened Tantalus by Punahou School students. Other prime hillside communities near town were already crowded, but Tantalus was still sparsely settled forest reserve land, lacking city water lines, and the few lots available were not very expensive. During one of their hikes in 1946, Howard and Betty found the perfect spot&mdash;along with its elderly owner enjoying the view. After they became better acquainted, Mr. Coulter offered to sell them the parcel of land for $2000, even though they offered him twice the price. Then the couple went looking for the perfect architect to build a home for them on that site, and found him in Vladimir Ossipoff.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The Liljestrands presented Ossipoff with demanding requirements, while the topography and highly variable daily weather conditions&mdash;sun, wind, and rain&mdash;imposed further constraints. The house is on two terraces, with the carport, entrance, and main part of the long, narrow house on the uphill terrace, and a lower story opening onto the downhill terrace. On a third, lower tier is a swimming pool. The upper side of the house is well sheltered from frequent mountain showers, while low-lying wooden louvers draw cooling breezes toward the larger openings on the side facing downhill. A long, open-sided recreation room extends beneath the bedrooms and faces onto a wide lawn. The large master bedroom at one end is angled to preserve an old stand of eucalyptus trees, and a sharp, wraparound deck juts out from the living room end of the house, overlooking the pool, the treetops, and a wide expanse of the city and the leeward side of the island stretching into the distance. Every room has a view.</p><br>
<p>The house is made of wood frame with retaining walls of concrete block in support. Large glass windows under overhanging eaves combine with carefully placed partitions to provide both shade and filtered daylight. Interior walls of redwood are bleach-stained to mute the color and highlight the grain. The staircase, built-in cabinets, countertops, and several pieces of furniture were fashioned from the fine wood of a single, large monkeypod tree. The open-beamed ceiling adds to the spaciousness of the living rooms, while a sandstone fireplace with copper hood lends a simultaneous feel of coziness.</p><br>
<p>The exterior landscaping was designed by the noted landscape architects, Robert and Catherine Thompson, who were friends of the family, and the house has been carefully maintained by the architect, Bob Liljestrand, the eldest son of the original owners.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Rochester City Hall is a historic government building in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. Also known as the Federal Building and Old Post Office, the building was originally built for use by the federal government. It is a four-story, Richardsonian Romanesque style structure with an inner court and tower. It was built between 1885 and 1889 of heavy brown sandstone with a metal skeleton. It was expanded in 1893 and in 1907. The building was designed in part by architect Harvey Ellis under the Office of the Supervising Architect Mifflin E. Bell. The building has served as the City Hall since the 1970s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Federal offices in Rochester, the Kenneth B. Keating Federal Building, and the United States Court House are located across the street at 100 State Street.</p><br>
<p>Nazareth House, also known as St. Andrew&#39;s Parish House, is a historic building in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States. It is a three-story, brick institutional building built in 1893 and enlarged in 1911. The original section is a three-story, five-bay, red brick structure in the Neoclassical style. The building was once used for social and education services, but was renovated in the early 1980s into six apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is located in the South Wedge Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Central Congregational Church is a historic church at 26 Middle Street in Eastport, Maine, USA. The meeting house was built in 1829, and is a remarkably sophisticated example of Federal style architecture for what was then a frontier community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Central Congregational Church of Eastport is set on the west side of Middle Street, midway between Boyton and Key Streets. It is a gable-roofed wood frame structure, with clapboard siding and a stone foundation. Its main facade, facing east is symmetrically organized, with three bays of entrances demarcated by pilasters rising through the gallery level to a cornice, above which is the pedimented gable with an eyebrow window at its center. A square tower is set just back from the front, with a tall first stage that has a clock near the top, with an octagonal belfry as the second stage. The belfry has louvered openings framed by keystoned arches set on impost blocks, with small gables above, surrounding the base of an octagonal steeple.</p><br>
<p>The interior is largely unaltered, and of high quality. A gallery lines three sides of the interior, with the fourth highlighted by an arch with elaborate drapery moulding. The pulpit stands before the arch, and the ground floor is otherwise lined with bench pews.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church was built in 1828 and dedicated in February, 1829 for a congregation established in 1819. It was Eastports second congregation, the first following Unitarianism, while this group followed a more traditional Trinitarian theology. The church was apparently designed and building supervised by Daniel Low, a member of the building committee about whom nothing is known. The buildings only major alteration is the reconstruction of its steeple after the original was blown off in 1869; the clock was added at the time. The building is now owned by the Tides Institute & Museum of Art of Eastport, Maine and is being repurposed as an historic space. The small congregation continues to meet at the church building on Sunday mornings during the summer months.</p><br>
<p>Centre Street Congregational Church is a historic church at 9 Center Street in Machias, Maine. Built in 1836–37, it is an important early example of Gothic Revival architecture in northern New England, apparently based on an early design by the noted Gothic architect Richard Upjohn. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ; its current pastor is Rev. Susan Maxwell, M. Div.</p><br>
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<p>The Centre Street Congregational Church is located on the east side of Center Street, between Court and Main Streets in downtown Machias. It is a large single-story wood frame structure, set on a high granite foundation, with a gable roof and clapboard siding. Its west-facing main facade is dominated by a projecting square tower, which begins with three of the five bays of that facade. On the first level are three Gothic-arched openings leading into an open foyer, with Gothic-arched doors leading into the building. The next three stages of the tower have a tall Gothic window, flanked at its sides, and again at the tower corners, by pilasters separated by a cornice line at each level. The tower corners at the third stage have pinnacles, and the fourth stage is reduced in size. The fifth stage houses a clock with faces on each of four sides, and is topped by pinnacles at the corners and a steeple.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed in 1836 and completed in 1837, and is one of the states oldest surviving examples of Gothic architecture (the oldest is the 1819 Christ Episcopal Church in Gardiner). It was designed by a Mr. Stephenson, about whom nothing is known, but the plans appear to be remarkably similar to Richard Upjohns plans for St. John&#39;s Catholic Church in Bangor (built in 1835-39, no longer standing). The church bell was a used bell cast by the foundry of Paul Revere. The organ was built by George Stevens and installed in 1867, and the clock, built by E. Howard & Co., was installed in 1870.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Union Church, originally Epping Baptist Church, was a historic church in Epping, the northeastern part of Columbia, Maine. Built in 1829 and extensively altered in 1870, it is a fine example of a Greek Revival church with Gothic alterations. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, and was delisted in 2024 after collapsing in 2023.</p><br>
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<p>The Columbia Union Church was located in northeastern Columbia, on the north side of Epping Road just east of its junction with Cemetery Road. It was a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard and shingle siding, and a granite foundation. The front facade faced south, and had a fully pedimented gable above a pair of entrances that flanked a central window. The doors and window were topped by Gothic drip molding, which was also found on other windows. The building&#39;s corners have pilasters, which rose to an entablature that encircled the building. A two-stage tower rose above the front, with windows in the second stage and crenellations above. The tower featured drip molding, pilasters and friezes similar to those found on the main body. The building was condemned by the Town of Columbia in 2019, and collapsed on February 16th, 2023.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1829 as the Epping Baptist Church, this was the first church building to be built within the municipal bounds of Columbia, which was incorporated in 1796. The congregation had been meeting in private homes since 1788 prior to construction of this building. It is unclear at what point the buildings use changed to that of a union church (serving multiple denominations), but the Columbia Union Society was formally organized in 1866 to oversee the buildings rehabilitation. Under that organization&#39;s oversight the building was renovated, adding Gothic features such as the tower crenellations and drip molding.</p><br>
<p>Jonesboro Union Church is a historic church on Looks Point Road, at the junction with USA Route 1 in Jonesboro, Maine. Built in 1841 and significantly restyled in 1911, it is the community&#39;s only surviving 19th-century church. It is also notable for its eclectic blend of architectural styles, and is an important early ecclesiastical work of Portland architect Edward Leander Higgins. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
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<p>The Jonesboro Union Church is located in the dispersed rural village center of Jonesboro, just east of US 1 on the north side of Looks Point Road, overlooking the Chandler River. The church is a 1-1/2 wood frame structure, with complex massing and roofline. It is finished in wooden clapboards, and rests on a foundation of stone and concrete blocks. The building is very roughly T-shaped, with a two-story tower at the T&#39;s southern inside corner. To the right of the tower is a north-south gable-roof section, whose front is flush with that of the tower. Behind the tower a hip-roof section extends to the west. The tower houses the main entrance vestibule, the rightmost section, which is the original 1841 church, houses the sanctuary, and the back section houses the vestry area. The sanctuary, originally oriented with the pulpit at the long end in the traditional 19th-century manner, is now oriented with the pulpit area in a projecting section on the east side. The building exhibits Gothic Revival elements, with buttresses flanking the sides of the front, flared-roof pinnacles and steeple on the tower, and a modest amount of jigsawn woodwork in the open bays of the tower.</p><br>
<p>The town of Jonesboro had three congregations in 1840, for whom this church was built as a union meeting house in 1841. By the turn of the 20th century two of the congregations were no longer active, and the building was in need of extensive repairs. Portland architect E. Leander Higgins was retained to design changes to what had been a traditional Greek Revival structure, in order to accommodate a large sanctuary. The building was moved 20 ft onto a new foundation, its interior reoriented from horizontal to longitudinal, and the tower and vestry added.</p><br>
<p>The church alterations are one of the earliest known ecclesiastical works of Higgins, who had up to that time worked principally on residential architecture. In the 1920s and 1930s he was one of Portland&#39;s leading architects, with an acknowledged expertise in Gothic Revival architecture that included commissions from the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Hall is the historic town hall of Machiasport, Maine. Located on Maine State Route 92 in the town&#39;s village center, it is a prominent local example of Italianate architecture, and has served as a civic and community meeting space for more than 100 years. It was built in 1873, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
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<p>Liberty Hall is set on the west side of Port Road (Maine Route 92) in the dispersed village center of Machiasport. It stands on a rise, facing east toward the Machias River. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. The roof is topped at the front by a small tower, which has an elaborately-decorated open belvidere (viewing platform) with round-arch openings and quoined corner supports, topped by a mansard roof and weathervane. The roof is a replica of the building&#39;s original, which was at one time replaced by a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof. The main facade is symmetrical, with a center double-door entrance topped by a lintel with bracketed molding. Flanking the entrance are doubled sash windows, taller versions of which rise on the second floor. The central second floor windows have round-arch tops. Similar windows adorn the sides, all capped with stylistically similar lintels. The building corners are quoined at the first level, and pilastered at the second. The interior is arranged with a vestibule area in the front, a meeting space on the first floor, and a performance auditorium with stage on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the hall was authorized by the town meeting in 1873, and the building was completed the following year by Andrew Gilson, a Machias contractor and politician. The hall was used not just for town meetings, but also served as a venue for community events, meetings of community organizations such as the Grange, and as a performance venue for traveling shows. The town closed the building in 2000 due to structural conditions, and renovation efforts are currently underway by the Friends of Liberty Hall. The exterior has been restored (included the restoration of the tower&#39;s original appearance), and funds are being raised to restore the interior.</p><br>
<p>The Lion is a historic steam locomotive at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, Maine, USA. Built in 1846 for use on a logging railroad, it is the oldest known American-built locomotive in New England. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>The Lion is set on display, prominently located near the entrance to the Maine State Museum. Its main frame is 12.5 ft long and 7 ft wide, made of solid oak timbers with iron strapping. Mounted on this frame is a five-section boiler, with a dry steam dome near its center, from which steam is piped to the steam chest, which drives the pistons that move the train. The boiler and cylinders were insulated with a thin layer of wood, which was covered by a thin layer of iron. The main stack is located at the front, and has an unusual inverted cone shape, apparently intended to deflect sparks and cinders that came from the exhaust.</p><br>
<p>It has been stated that the Lion cost originally $2,700, exclusive of the tender. The bore and stroke of its cylinders are 9½ inches and 17 inches, respectively, and the diameter of the four wheels is approximately 42½ inches. The gauge is standard, 56½ inches. The locomotive alone weighs 9 tons.</p><br>
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<p>The locomotive was built by Hinkley & Drury (Hinkley Locomotive Works) in 1846 as the Lion for the Machiasport Railroad of eastern Maine. The Lion operated as a working locomotive until 1890. It was sold in 1897 to Thoman Towle of Portland, Maine. It was then purchased by the City of Portland and appeared in the 1898 Fourth of July parade. The Lion was given to the University of Maine at Machias in 1905 and was displayed and owned by the University until 1985 when it was given to the Maine State Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The Lion is the oldest American-built locomotive in New England.</p><br>
<p>The Union Evangelical Church is a historic church on Ridge Road in Addison, Maine. Built about 1860, it is a well-preserved example of a transitional Greek Revival-Gothic Revival church building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
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<p>The Union Evangelical Church is located west of Addison&#39;s village center, at the junction of Ridge Road with Church Hill Lane. It is set on a rise overlooking the Pleasant River, with views of the Maine coast. The building is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The roof is topped by a two-stage square tower, consisting of a low first stage, and a belfry stage with rectangular louvers in each wall, framed by projecting hoods and pilasters. A simple dentillated cornice caps that stage. The tower was apparently once topped by crenellations. The building corners have pilasters with lancet-arched panels, rising to a broad entablature extending across the front and sides. The front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances on either side of a central pair of long and narrow windows. The window and doors are topped by Gothic drip molding, a detail carried to the windows on the sides.</p><br>
<p>The first church was built on this site in 1789, and was destroyed in a gale in 1839. The second church, built soon afterward, was destroyed by fire resulting from a lightning strike in 1860. The present church was built soon afterward; its designer and builder are not known, but the church is stylistically similar to another in nearby Columbia.</p><br>
<p>Union Hall is a historic meeting hall near the junction of Depot and Central Streets in Danforth, Maine. Built in 1890, the hall has served since then as a venue for private and public events, including town meetings and other municipal functions, and as a meeting point for fraternal organizations including the Masons and the Odd Fellows. It is a prominent landmark in the village center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
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<p>Danforth&#39;s Union Hall is located in the village center, one block south of the junction of United States Route 1 and Maine State Route 169. It is a tall two story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. A three-story tower projects from the front facade, with a clock stage and open belfry capped by a pyramidal roof. A gable-roofed porch extends across the center of the three-bay facade, sheltering the building entrance. The entrances open to a vestibule that has ticket offices and stairs to either side rising to the gallery level of the auditorium, which occupies most of the first floor. The upper level is taken up by the meeting spaces of the fraternal organizations.</p><br>
<p>The hall was designed by Gardiner-based Edwin E. Lewis, a prolific architect of the late 19th century in central and eastern Maine, and was built in 1890. It was commissioned by the Union Hall Corporation, which operated the hall as a public benefit, hosting town meetings and other social, civic, and theatrical functions. In 1906 the upper level was sold to local chapters of the International Order of Odd Fellows and Masons.</p><br>
<p>The Burnham Tavern is a historic tavern at 14 Colonial Way in Machias, Maine, United States. Built in 1770, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the Machias area, and is known for its locally significant role in the American Revolutionary War. The tavern is operated as the Burnham Tavern Museum by the Hannah Weston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution . Featuring late 18th period furnishings, the house includes artifacts from the 1775 Battle of Machias, the first naval battle of the Revolution. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
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<p>The Burnham Tavern is located on the south side of Colonial Way in downtown Machias, just south of its junction with Free Street. It is a rectangular two-story wood-frame structure, oriented to face east, presenting a side to the street. The roof is gambrel, with a clerestory section of windows on the second floor. The main facade is five bays wide, and the building has a large central chimney. The entry vestibule has a distinctive staircase that branches left and right, providing independent access to the second-floor bedrooms. There are parlor rooms on either side of the chimney, and a kitchen with large fireplace taking up most of the western half of the building.</p><br>
<p>English settlers first arrived in the Machias area in 1763, and the tavern was built in 1770 by Job Burnham. It is the only building in the Machias area with a documented connection to the American Revolutionary War, as it was used as a meeting place by the local militia, particularly during the events that led to the 1775 Battle of Machias, one of the first naval encounters of the war. It was also used as a hospital for treating the wounded of both sides in the battle, and artifacts related to the capture of the Margaretta during this battle are on display. The building continued to act as a major local social meeting point into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, also known as the New Old South Congregational Church, is a historic church at 235 Main Street in Farmington, Maine. The congregations present sanctuary is a brick Romanesque structure designed by George M. Coombs and was completed in 1887. It is the towns finest 19th-century church, and one of the most architecturally sophisticated in the region. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The congregation, established in 1814, celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2014.</p><br>
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<p>The congregation of the South Congregational Church was formally established in 1814, having existed in an informal way for about 10 years, sharing space with other religious groups in a common meeting house. In 1814 the congregation built its own church, which was burned down in a major fire which swept through Farmington in 1886. The congregation then retained the Lewiston-based architect George M. Coombs to design a replacement structure. (Coombs would also design a number of other prominent buildings in Farmington that were built after the fire.)</p><br>
<p>The building Coombs designed is a large brick Romanesque Revival structure, with a granite foundation and brownstone trim. The main facade, facing Main Street, has the roof gable flanked by a pair of towers that project slightly from the corners. The right-hand tower is the larger of the two, rising in four stages to a pyramidal roof with square pinnacles at the corners. The left-hand tower is three stages, and lacks the pinnacles. A doorway is found in the base of each tower, recessed in a round-arch opening. The center of the main facade is dominated by a large wheel window, fashioned in stained glass by Redding and Baird of Boston, which is set under a slightly-recessed arch and above a row of five rectangular windows.</p><br>
<p>Greece Memorial Hall, also known as Greece Town Hall, was a historic town hall building located at Greece in Monroe County, New York. It consisted of a two-story, side-gabled main building constructed in 1919; two -story flanking wings built in 1936, and a two-part addition constructed in 1955. The main building featured a -story protruding portico with a stone arch flanked by two open oculi and supported by two stone Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>The hall memorialized the 288 young men from Greece who served in World War I, thirteen of whom died in battle.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 and demolished in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Garage at 219 Main Street in Farmington, Maine, was once a Free Will Baptist Meetinghouse. Built in 1835, it is one of a relatively small number of 19th-century brick meeting houses, and its history exhibits the creative reuse of structures in rural Maine. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
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<p>The church is a rectangular brick structure, set well back from Main Street, with a gable roof whose end faces the street. It exhibits modest Federal styling, with a pair of entry doors on the front facade, each with narrow sidelight windows and topped by a decorative fan. Above each door is a single sash window, with 12 over 8 lights. The gable pediment also has a decorative fan. There is a large doorway in the center of the southern facade, presently used as a garage door. The interior, although significantly altered from its original religious setting, includes the inscription "Glory to God in the Highest" on its plaster walls.</p><br>
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<p>The Free Will Baptist congregation was established in Farmington in 1793, and first met in people&#39;s homes and barns. This meetinghouse was built in 1835 at a cost of $1,250, and was the first of the denomination north and east of Gorham. In the early 20th century the building was converted for use as a cheese factory, at which time the side garage entrance was added. Later 20th century uses included a medical facility, a stable, and as a fur storage building, before its present use as residential garage.</p><br>
<p>The New Sharon Congregational Church is a historic church at 21 Cape Cod Hill Road in New Sharon, Maine. Built in 1845, this brick structure is an example of Greek Revival architecture, and stands as a focal point of the rural town&#39;s center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The church is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
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<p>The New Sharon Congregational Church is a rectangular brick structure, facing southeast on a rise overlooking the residential center of the town of New Sharon. It has a front-facing gable roof, with a clapboarded pediment. Its tower, rising from the ridge behind the main facade, begins with a square stage that has wide lancet-arch windows divided by a thin vertical strip, finished in clapboards and topped by a low balustrade and corner turrets. The second stage is an octagonal belfry with lancet-arched louvers, topped by a thin railing with turreted posts. A slightly bell-cast octagonal dome and weathervane top the tower. The main facade has two symmetrically-placed entrances and a tall raised window at the center. The only ornamentation in the brickwork are projecting pillars and entablature at the corners and roofline.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1845 to replace an earlier wood-frame building destroyed by fire. This older building had been built in 1816 as a common meeting house for four different denominations; the Baptists, Methodists, and Unitarians had all eventually built their own buildings, leaving the original with the Congregationalists. The rise the building stands on includes a large grassy area, which is the nearest thing New Sharon has to a town common.</p><br>
<p>The Old Union Meetinghouse, now the Union Baptist Church, is a historic church at 107 Mason Road in the Farmington Falls area of Farmington, Maine. Built in 1826–27, it is a high-quality and well-preserved example of a traditional late-colonial meetinghouse with Federal-style details. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
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<p>In March 1833, a committee of the committee of the Frankfort Union Meeting House Corporation contracted Calvin Ryder, a twenty-three year old local builder, to construct the church according to plans prepared by Bangor architect Charles H. Pond for the Orrington Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>The building is set facing southwest. It is on the southeast side of a short stretch of Mason Road, which runs NE-SW between United States Route 2 and Maine State Route 41. It is a basically rectangular wood frame structure with a front-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. A vestibule, projecting from the front façade, provides a partial base for the square church tower, whose main stage rises partially through the main roof to an open octagonal belfry area supported by round columns. A series of octagonal sections, decreasing in size, are capped by the steeple and weather vane. The projecting vestibule has two doorways, each framed by delicate pilasters, and topped by a fanlight, with a set of windows at the gallery level, topped by a small pedimented gable. The main sides of the façade are unadorned except for windows at the gallery level. The sides of the building have eight sash windows, each with shutters and a fanlight above.</p><br>
<p>Design and construction of the church, which was completed in 1827, are attributed to Benjamin Butler, a builder who moved to Farmington from Massachusetts in 1790. Butler is also credited with building the first bridge across the Sandy River, and he was a member of the town&#39;s building committee. Unlike many churches built in the 1820s, its form is more reminiscent of church designs of the mid-18th century. although its exterior styling is in the then-popular Federal style. The only substantive work on the church took place in 1854, when its pews were rebuilt, and its walls repainted and papered. Although the church was originally built to serve multiple denominations, it is now owned and maintained by a Baptist congregation.</p><br>
<p>The Oquossoc Log Church  is a historic non-denominational church on Maine State Route 4 in the Oquossoc village of Rangeley, Maine. Built in 1916, it is a unique structure, whose walls and major interior fixtures are all built out of spruce logs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The Oquossoc Log Church is set on the north side of Carry Road (Maine State Route 4), a short way east of its junction with Maine State Route 17 in the village of Oquossoc, which is at the northwest corner of Rangeley Lake. It is a rectangular log structure, with a hip roof and a projecting entry vestibule topped by a small tower. The entry vestibule is open to the south, fashioned out of vertically-placed logs, and topped by a roof section that steps back to the belfry stage of the tower, which has louvered rectangular sections. The tower is topped by a pyramidal roof with flared eaves. The walls are fashioned out of horizontally-placed logs up to the base of the sash windows, and then by vertically-arranged logs between the windows and the corners. The building&#39;s interior fixtures, including the pulpit and altar, are also fashioned from spruce logs.</p><br>
<p>Funding for the church was raised by summer residents of the area in 1915, and construction of the building was completed in 1916 by Anson Hayford. Then as now, it provided summer residents a place to have non-denomination religious services.</p><br>
<p>The Union Church, now Phillips Congregational Church, is a historic church on Main and Pleasant Streets in Phillips, Maine. Built in 1835, this Greek Revival church is the oldest religious building in the small community, and a distinctive local landmark. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The Phillips Congregational Church is set just east of the junction of Main and Pleasant Streets, occupying a prominent location in the center of the main village of Phillips, Maine. It is a rectangular wood-frame building, with a front-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite stone foundation. The building&#39;s most prominent feature is its tall two-stage tower, which rises above the front facade. The first stage is square, with clock faces in the sides. A cornice separates this stage from the octagonal open belfry, which has round-arch openings. An octagonal cupola and weather vane cap the tower. The main facade is three bays wide, symmetrically arrange with a pair of entrances in the outer bays and sash windows in the other bays. The entrances are framed by simple pilasters and entablatures with cornices.</p><br>
<p>The interior begins with a foyer, which opens into a nave with two aisles separating three rows of bench pews. The rear wall of the nave has a semi-circular indentation, where a wood stove once stood to provide heat to the building. The second-level gallery has largely been enclosed.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1835, and is one of two surviving 19th-century churches in town (the other is the 1867 Gothic Revival Methodist church). The church was funded by three local congregations, representing Free Will Baptists, Universalists, and Congregationalists. Ownership was shared between these three groups until 1931, when the Congregationalists acquired full ownership of the building. The only significant alterations to the building were the removal of its belfry in 1939 due to deterioration; it was restored in 1982 with plans drafted from historic photographs of the original.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Our Father is a historic Episcopal church in Hulls Cove, a village of Bar Harbor, Maine. Built in 1890-91 to a design by William Masters Carmac, it is an excellent local interpretation of English Gothic Revival architecture executed in stone. It was part of a period trend in the construction of architect-designed summer chapels in coastal Maine. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
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<p>The Church of Our Father is a modest single-story stone structure, facing west on Maine State Route 3 in Hulls Cove, a village of Bar Harbor on the northeast side of Mount Desert Island. The main facade has a large lancet-arched stained glass window (created by the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany) with an open bell cote at the top of the gable above. The wall is supported by buttressed corners. The main entrance is on the south side, sheltered by a projecting gable-roofed porch. The front and sides of the porch have arched openings, and there is a bullseye window in the gable end. The main roof is pierced by gabled dormers rising from the side walls. The interior of the church is finished in tongue-and-groove wainscoting, plaster walls, and plaster ceiling with exposed beams. To the north of the transept is a modern wood frame parish hall, giving the whole building an L shape.</p><br>
<p>The congregation of the Church of Our Father was founded in 1880. The church building was commissioned by Cornelia and Mary Prime, in honor of their parents, and was built in 1890-91 on land they donated. The building was designed by Philadelphia architect William Masters Carmac, a summer resident of Bar Harbor, and is the only known works in Maine of his (out of seven documented to be associated with his firm) to survive relatively intact. It is one of at least five architect-designed churches in coastal central Maine that was built in the late 19th century. It is also notable for its fine collection of stained glass windows, designed by a number of prominent glass studios and installed between 1898 and 1932.</p><br>
<p>The Eastbrook Baptist Church and Eastbrook Town House are a pair historic civic buildings on Maine State Route 200  in the center of Eastbrook, Maine. The church, built 1860, and the town house, built 1880, are both late examples of Greek Revival architecture, the latter apparently built in stylistic imitation of the former. The buildings were listed as a pair on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Eastbrook Baptist Church is a single-story wood-frame structure, with clapboard siding, set on the west side of SR 200. Its main facade has simple paneled pilasters at the corners, and a plain entablature (which extends around the building) below a plainly-decorated triangular pediment. The single-stage square tower that rises above is a later addition. There are two symmetrically placed entrances, each flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature with cornice. The side walls each have three twelve-over-twelve windows. Its 1860 construction date is at the very end of the range in which Greek Revival buildings were generally built in Maine.</p><br>
<p>The town house, now apparently vacant, also stands on the west side of SR 200, just north of the church. It is also a single-story wood-frame structure with clapboard siding. Its main facade is also relatively simple: the front-facing gable is not fully pedimented, having only short returned. There are corner paneled pilasters as with the church. It has a centered double-door entry, which is topped by a transom window and framed by pilasters and an entablature with cornice. The entrance is flanked by sash windows topped by simple cornices, and there is a similar window in the gable. The side elevations each have two windows, and a plain entablature running below the roofline. Built in 1880, it shares obvious similarities with its neighbor, even though they are separated by a wooded lot.</p><br>
<p>The Ellsworth Congregational Church is a historic church at 2 Church Street in Ellsworth, Maine, United States. The congregation was organized in 1812, and is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Its present Greek Revival building was constructed in 1846, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its architectural significance. The current pastor is the Reverend Cynthia Priem.</p><br>
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<p>The church is sited on a rise on the north side of Ellsworths central business district, at the corner of Church and State Streets. It is a large wood-frame structure with Greek Revival styling. Its body is stories in height, and is topped at the front by a multi-stage tower: its first stage is square, housing a clock, and is topped by an octagonal belfry with an open balustrade. Above the belfry is a round section supporting an octagonal windows stage, above which the steeple rises to a weathervane. The front of the church has a projecting Greek temple front, with six fluted Doric columns supporting a triangular gabled pediment. The buildings corners are pilasters. A wing extends from the rear northeast corner, apparently a replacement for another building that was on the site in an 1881 photo. A modern parish hall is attached to the northwest of the building via a passageway.</p><br>
<p>The Ellsworth congregation was organized in 1812, and its sanctuary was built in 1846 by Thomas Lord, a master builder from Blue Hill. The building is notable for surviving a 1933 fire which devastated much of Ellsworth&#39;s business district.</p><br>
<p>The Elm Street Congregational Church and Parish House is a historic church complex at Elm and Franklin Streets in Bucksport, Maine. It includes a Greek Revival church building, built in 1838 to a design by Benjamin S. Deane, and an 1867 Second Empire parish house. The church congregation was founded in 1803; its present pastor is the Rev. Debra Arnold. The church and parish house were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is a basically rectangular wood-frame structure, set facing west at the corner of Elm and Franklin Streets. It has a gable roof which is topped at the front by a multistage tower. The tower begins with a short square stage, above which is a slightly taller and narrower section with deeply recessed panels, topped by gabled shallow pediments. Above that is the belfry, with round-arch louvered openings and corner pilasters, topped by an entablature, above which the steeple rises to a weathervane. The main facade has a projecting tetrastyle Greek temple portico with an entablature and fully pedimented gable. Under the portico are a pair of entrances, with windows above and between them. The buildings corners are pilastered, and the side walls have tall sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The two entrances lead into separate but linked vestibule areas, which lead into the nave, which has two groups of pews divided by center and side aisles. A projecting arch highlights the chancel, and a segmented-arch opening frames the 1863 organ housing.</p><br>
<p>The parish house is joined to the church by narrow covered passage built in 1970. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof and a three-story tower, also topped by a mansard roof, projects slightly at the center of the main facade. The first two levels of the tower have paired four-over-four windows, repeated in the flanking bays on either side, and there are bullseye oriel windows in the third level of the tower. Entrances are in recessed wing vestibules on either side of the main block.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Elm Street congregation was established in 1803, and built its first sanctuary in 1811–14. That building was sold after the construction of this one, and was sold to the town has a school and town hall after the present church was built; it was destroyed by fire in 1910. The congregation commissioned Bangor architect Benjamin S. Deane to design their new sanctuary, which was completed in 1838. It is one of the least-altered of Deanes early works, which include a number of other area churches, as well as numerous buildings in Bangor. The major changes include replacing the tower with the current one in 1850, and the lengthening of the building to the east by one bay to accommodate more pews. The organ was installed in 1863. At some point the interior was decorated with trompe-lœil murals, but these were removed during a 1928 restoration. The parish house was built in 1876; its architect is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a historic church building at 362 Lamoine Beach Road in East Lamoine, Maine. The wood frame Greek Revival building was built in 1832 by a noted local builder/architect, and was altered in 1879 to include a Victorian tower and porches. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a front gable roof, clapboard siding, and a concrete foundation. A tower projects from its front facade, flanked on either side by hip-roof porches with bracketed columns and chamfered posts. The tower has a bullseye window at its middle stage, and an open belfry stage with decorative Stick woodwork, and is topped by an octagonal steeple. The two entrances, still framed by Greek Revival surrounds, lead into separate vestibule areas, from which stairs lead to the gallery, and entry is gained to the main sanctuary. The nave has rows of bench pews (replacements in 1852 of the original box pews).</p><br>
<p>Lamoine&#39;s Baptist congregation was established in the early 19th century, and this building was built for it in 1932 by Seth Tisdale, a noted local builder and designer. The congregation split in the 1840s, resulting in the construction of another church in the town, although the two congregations later reunited. This building was altered in 1879 to designs by Asa Hodgkins, a noted builder from Ellsworth, to replace the tower and add the porches in the then fashionable Italianate and Stick style. In the 20th century the building was deeded to the cemetery association that controls the cemetery behind the building, and it was given by them to the local historical society in the 1970s. The building was moved back one length in the 1980s, at which time it was set on a new foundation.</p><br>
