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The Temple (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)

The Temple is a historic octagon-shaped Baptist church building on Temple Avenue in the Ocean Park area of Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Built in 1881, it is the centerpiece of the summer camp meeting established in 1880 by Free Will Baptists led by Bates College President Oren Cheney. It is the only known octagonal religious structure in use in the state, although there are octagonal belfries such as that of New Sharon Congregational Church. The temple was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and included in the Ocean Park Historic Buildings district in 1982. Description and history The Temple is set on the north side of Temple Avenue, in an area known as Temple Square. Flanking it are two other buildings associated with the camp meeting: Porter Hall and B.C. Jordan Memorial Hall. It is a two-story wood frame structure, capped by an octagonal hip roof whose elements meet at a central cupola. It is finished in wooden clapboards and rests on a foundation of brick piers. The main facade, facing south, is three bays wide, with a central projecting entry section topped by a doubled gable roof. This section has a double door on the first level and a double sash window above, while the flanking bays have single sash windows. The east and west-facing walls have similar organization, but only a single gable roof. The north wall has a low storage area projecting from it. The interior of the building is a large open hall, with the speaker's platform on the north wall, and seating, much of it original, arrayed facing it. The idea of an oceanfront camp meeting community arose at a meeting of Free Will Baptists in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire in 1880. Land was acquired in northern Saco (which Old Orchard Beach was then still part of), and summer cottages were soon built. This building was constructed in 1881 by James Bickford to a design by Dow & Wheeler, inspired in part by the popularization of octagon houses by Orson Squire Fowler in the 1840s and 1850s. The Temple continues to be a central focus of the summer community in Ocean Park. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine References
Togus National Cemetery

Togus National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Togus, Kennebec County, Maine. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 31.2 acres (12.6 ha), and as of the end of 2020, had more than 5,300 interments. It is closed to new interments. History Named for an Algonquian Native American word for mineral water, the area the cemetery resides on was formerly a hotel and resort known as Togus Springs. The resort failed as a business due to the outbreak of the Civil War, and its owner died shortly thereafter. The federal government purchased the property for 50,000 dollars and established a veteran care facility. The first veterans were admitted on November 10, 1866. The facility was expanded and eventually had the capacity for 3,000 veterans. The cemetery itself is divided into two plots, the West Cemetery and the East Cemetery. The older West Cemetery was first established in 1865 and moved to its present location in 1867; it closed for interments in 1936. The East Cemetery was opened in 1936 to provide additional interment space. It was closed for interments in 1961. Notable interments Private David John Scannell, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Boxer Rebellion. John Preston, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Civil War External links Togus National Cemetery National Cemetery Administration U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Togus National Cemetery Togus National Cemetery at Find a Grave Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. ME-2, "Togus National Cemetery, 1 VA Center, Togus, Kennebec County, ME", 33 photos, 4 photo caption pages
Trinity Episcopal Church (Lewiston, Maine)

Trinity Episcopal Church is an historic church building at 247 Bates Street in Lewiston, Maine. It is a modestly sized yet handsomely decorated Gothic Revival building, designed by C.C. Haight of New York City and completed in 1882. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The church reported 29 members in 2015 and 25 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income reported for the congregation in 2024 was $58,476. Average Sunday attendance (ASA) in 2024 was 21 persons. Architecture and history The Trinity Episcopal Church building stands at the southwest corner of Spruce and Bates Streets in downtown Lewiston, just south of Kennedy Park. It is a single-story stone structure laid out in a cruciform plan, with granite walls and a slate roof. A square tower with a belfry and hipped spire rises at the center of the cross, and a secondary gabled entrance vestibule projects north from the rear of the nave. Windows are generally narrow lancet-arched Gothic windows, with circular rose windows in some of the larger gables. The Trinity Church parish was organized in 1854, and built its first dedicated sanctuary at Ash and Park Streets in 1859. After outgrowing that space, the parish built this church, on land donated by the Franklin Company. Construction took three years, and the building was consecrated in 1882. The church continues to be an anchor in the neighborhood. In 2001, it organized the Trinity Jubilee Center, which is a daily soup kitchen and social service agency. The Jubilee Center, now an independent non-profit, is still located in the church building. The parish was also instrumental in the creation of Tree Street Youth and the reopening of the Center for Wisdom's Women. Trinity hosts small concerts and provides bereavement support and memorial services for anyone without a church home, at no charge. The ashes of the deceased can be placed in the memorial garden adjacent to the church building. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Androscoggin County, Maine References External links Trinity Jubilee Center web site Tree Street Youth web site Center for Wisdom's Women web site
Tukey's Bridge

Tukey's Bridge is a bridge connecting the neighborhoods of Munjoy Hill and East Deering in Portland, Maine, United States. It is part of Interstate 295, U.S. Route 1, and Washington Avenue (State Route 26). Back Cove Trail crosses the bridge on its western side. History Several bridges by the same name have existed connecting the areas. The current bridge was completed in 1960 and is named for Lemuel Tukey, a tavern owner and tax collector from the Back Cove area of Portland in the late 18th century. It replaced a bridge completed around 1898, and which carried the Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway. Further reading Dedication Program Interstate 95 : Tukey's Bridge, Portland, November 19, 1960 References "Tukey Bridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. September 30, 1980. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
Umbrella Cover Museum

The Umbrella Cover Museum in Peaks Island, Maine is a museum that pays tribute to umbrella covers. The museum was created and is curated by Nancy 3. Hoffman; she has collected more than 2000 umbrella covers from over 70 countries as of August 2021. Background The mission of the Umbrella Cover Museum states that it is "dedicated to the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life. It is about finding wonder and beauty in the simplest of things, and about knowing that there is always a story behind the cover." The idea for the museum came when Hoffman was cleaning out a closet and came across seven umbrella covers. The museum began in Hoffman's kitchen in 1990, and was moved to a larger location in 2000 as the collection grew. The museum's collection ranges in size from a two-and-a-half-inch Barbie doll cover to a six-foot patio umbrella sleeve. It has hosted special exhibitions including “People and Their Covers” and “New Umbrella Cover Fashions.” Cases are often donated to the museum by those who have lost the umbrellas the cases once belonged to. On 7 July 2012, Guinness World Records named Hoffman's umbrella cover collection of 730 at the time to be the largest in the world. The museum is closed during the winter. Guided tours include Hoffman, who is also a musician, singing "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" while playing an accordion. Other guided tours include Hoffman, singing the Umbrella Cover Museum theme song (known as "Umbrella Cover"), sung to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean". Further reading Uncovered And Exposed: A Guide to THE WORLD'S ONLY Umbrella Cover Museum, by Nancy 3. Hoffman, published in 2010 References External links Umbrella Cover Museum
Union Block (Lewiston, Maine)

The Union Block is a historic commercial building at 21-29 Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1870, it is a good local example of commercial Italianate architecture, built during a significant period of the city's growth. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Description and history The Union Block is set on the west side of Lisbon Street, Lewiston's primary commercial street, just south of its junction with Main Street. It is a three-story brick building, nine bays wide, with three storefronts on the ground floor. The two left storefronts have central recessed entries flanked by glass display windows, while the right one only has a single display window on the left. The storefronts are modern, but are separated by original granite piers. Building entrances are located at the outer ends of the facade. The upper floor windows are set in panels with rounded upper corners, and have granite lintels and sills. The building has a deep cornice with decorative brackets and modillions. The block was built in 1870 by John Y. Scranton (alternatively "Scruton"), a prominent local clothing retailer who had been in business in Lewiston since 1857. The upper floor house a meeting space that was variously rented to the Knights of Pythias, the International Order of Odd Fellows, and the Kora Temple (a local Shriners organization). See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Androscoggin County, Maine References
Union Church (Durham, Maine)

The Union Church, also once Durham Town Hall, is a historic civic and religious building at 744 Royalsborough Road in Durham, Maine. Built in 1835 as a multi-denominational church, it is a distinctive local example of late Federal architecture with Greek and Gothic Revival features. From 1922 until 1986, it served as town hall, and now houses the local historical society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The historical building now houses Durhams Historical Societys museum. Open one Saturday a month in warm months. Closed for winter. Description and history The former Union Church building is located in the dispersed rural village of Durham, on the north side of Royalsborough Road (Maine State Route 136), about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) west of its junction with Maine State Route 9. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. A gabled vestibule projects from the front, with a hip-roofed porch sheltering the main entrance, which is now at the center of that section. A two-stage tower rises, straddling the main roof and that of the vestibule, with an open belfry (housing a Revere bell) and an octagonal cupola above. The vestibule is three bays wide, with sash windows flanking the entrance, and the main block has former entrance locations (now boarded-over pointed-arch openings) on either side of the vestibule section. The interior, despite alterations, retains some of its original Greek Revival trim. The church was built in 1835 by a Baptist congregation, which allowed other groups to use it for religious services. This group declined in size during the 19th century, and its services ended in 1887. Other groups continued to use it into the early 20th century, but it was abandoned at the time it was deeded to the town in 1922. The town adapted it for use as its town hall, reconfiguring its entrances, and used it for that purpose until 1986. It continues to own the building, which is now occupied by the local historical society. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Androscoggin County, Maine References
Union Church (Phillips, Maine)

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. Description and history 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'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. 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. 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. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Maine References
Union Church of Vinalhaven

The Union Church of Vinalhaven is a historic church on East Main Street in the center of Vinalhaven, Maine. Built in 1899, it is a high quality example of Shingle style architecture, designed by one of its major promoters, John Calvin Stevens. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Description and history The Union Church stands on the south side of East Main Street in downtown Vinalhaven, just east of its junction with Atlantic Avenue. The church is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and shingled exterior. The long side of the building faces the street, with a square tower projecting at the right end. The tower rises to a louvered belfry and a pyramidal roof, whose corners have projecting hip sections over the piers that flank the belfry louvers. The main entrance is at the base of the tower, sheltered by a gabled porch. A wide wall dormer is set in the center of that facade, with a tripartite Gothic window. The west-facing gable end is also adorned with a large Gothic window, with small oriel windows on either side. The church was built by Otto Nelson according to a design by Stevens, who was Maine's best-known architect of the turn of the 20th century. Stevens was a major promoter of the Shingle style, and this church is an excellent example of the style. It was built to replace an earlier structure, built in 1860 when Vinalhaven was a major center for granite quarrying and shipping. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County, Maine References External links Official website
United States Customhouse and Post Office (Wiscasset, Maine)

The United States Customhouse and Post Office, also known as the Old Customhouse, is a historic federal government building at Fore and Water Streets in Wiscasset, Maine. It was designed by Alfred B. Mullett and built in 1869–1870 by William Hogan of Bath, Maine. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970. It has been a private residence since purchased by Entrepreneur Jack Nelson and his wife Stacy in October 2013. Description and history The former customhouse in Wiscasset stands adjacent to its historic waterfront area, at the northwest corner of Water and Fore Streets. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a hip roof and granite foundation. Its south-facing front facade is three bays wide, the center one projecting slightly and topped by a low-pitch gable with a keystoned half-round window at its center. A porch shelters the center entrance, with square paneled posts rising by an entablature and flat roof with balcony rail. Windows on the ground floor consist of pairs set in segmented-arch openings, while those on the second floor, also paired, are set in round-arch openings. A granite entablature separates the brick wall from the projecting roof cornice. Wiscasset's first customs office was opened in 1791, and was then located in a small building adjacent to the home of the collector, Francis Cook. This building was later moved to Bradford Street and converted to a private residence; it later burned down. Its next customhouse was built in the 1790s, and was destroyed in Wiscasset's 1866 fire. The present building was designed Alfred B. Mullett, the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, and was completed in 1870 by William Hogan, a local contractor. Hogan at first raided Fort Edgecomb for bricks, until the War Department put a halt to that activity, and also took stones from a family cemetery's enclosing wall. The building at first housed both customs and post office facilities. Wiscasset ceased to be a port of entry in 1913, and parts of the building were occupied by other government offices until the 1960s, when the post office moved to new facilities. The building was then sold into private ownership, and has served a variety of commercial and residential purposes since. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine List of United States post offices References
United States Customhouse and Post Office (Bath, Maine)

The U.S. Customhouse and Post Office is a historic commercial building at 1 Front Street in downtown Bath, Maine. Built by the federal government in 1858, it is a fine example of Italianate architecture designed by Ammi B. Young, housing the local post office and customs facilities until 1970. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It now houses businesses. Description and history The former United States Customhouse and Post Office stands at the southern end of Front Street, on a lot also bounded by Lambard and Commercial Streets, and by United States Route 1 on the south. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of ashlar granite and covered by a truncated metal hip roof. Its front facade (facing west) has a center projecting section topped by a fully pedimented low-pitch gable. The gable and the main roof line eaves are studded with modillions, and the building corners are quoined. Windows on the ground floor are set in rectangular openings with low gabled hoods, while those on the second floor have hoods with drip moulding. The entrance is an elaborate three-section arrangement topped by a bracketed cornice. The interior construction includes iron beams supported either by stone or iron posts, an advance in fire-resistant building materials of the period. The customhouse was built in 1858 to serve the needs of Bath's burgeoning port, which was a major shipping and shipbuilding center on Maine's Mid Coast. It was designed by Ammi B. Young, who had become head of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department in 1852. Young was responsible for the design of many government buildings, including notable works such as the Vermont State Capitol and the Boston Custom House. It served as the local post office and customhouse until 1970, when it was declared surplus by the General Services Administration. The building now houses a variety of businesses. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Sagadahoc County, Maine List of United States post offices References
Lewiston Main Post Office

The Lewiston Maine Post Office of Lewiston, Maine is located at 49 Ash Street in downtown Lewiston. Built in 1933 and enlarged in 1975, it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as U.S. Post Office–Lewiston Maine. Description and history The Lewiston Main Post Office is located one block east of the city's central Lisbon Street business district. The original 1933 portion of the building faces north onto Ash Street. It is two stories in height, with a frame of steel and concrete, and an exterior of stone brick. The central portion is nine bays wide, articulated by brick pilasters with stone bases and capitals. The first-floor bays have rounded-arch openings, the central three housing entrances, and the outer six windows. A stone entablature is topped by a dentillated cornice and a parapet with stone balusters and brick piers. The central main section is flanked by matching single-story sections, with a modern service wing to the rear. The interior of the central block is houses the main lobby in the front half and a work area to the rear, with the postmaster's office to one side, and is richly decorated. The building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, then under the guidance of James A. Wetmore, and was constructed in 1934-35. Its elaborate detailing probably benefited from an increase of the staff of that office pursuant to the Federal Employment Stabilzation Act of 1931. The modern service wing was added to the rear in 1975. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Androscoggin County, Maine List of United States post offices References