page_title: Agora Grand Event Center
hierarchical_section_title: Agora Grand Event Center
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of the Agora Grand Event Center
context_page_description: The Agora Grand Event Center is a large event venue in Lewiston, Maine.
  The Agora Grand was created by renovating the former St. Patrick's Church, a Roman Catholic church whose cornerstone was laid on 24 July 1887 by the Right Reverend Bishop Healy and last Mass was held in October, 2009. At 220 feet to its taller spire, it is the tallest building in Maine, based on the definition of "height to architectural top" by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. It was purchased in March, 2014, by developer Andrew Knight, who opened the Agora Grand in May, 2016. Knight's wedding was the first at the venue and he received an award from the Lewiston Historic Preservation Board for his work in reviving the building.
  In 2014, Knight converted the former St. Patrick's Church Rectory, also known as the Albert Kelsey Mansion, into a boutique hotel. The former church contains a mortuary chapel and basement crypt in which the church's original builder and priest, Monsignor Thomas Wallace, was buried from 1906 to 2007, when his body was exhumed and moved to Mt. Hope Cemetery.
context_section_description: The Agora Grand Event Center is a large event venue in Lewiston, Maine. 
  The Agora Grand was created by renovating the former St. Patrick's Church, a Roman Catholic church whose cornerstone was laid on 24 July 1887 by the Right Reverend Bishop Healy and last Mass was held in October, 2009.  At 220 feet to its taller spire, it is the  tallest building in Maine, based on the definition of "height to architectural top" by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.  It was purchased in March, 2014, by developer Andrew Knight, who opened the Agora Grand in May, 2016.  Knight's wedding was the first at the venue and he received an award from the Lewiston Historic Preservation Board for his work in reviving the building.
  In 2014, Knight converted the former St. Patrick's Church Rectory, also known as the Albert Kelsey Mansion, into a boutique hotel.  The former church contains a mortuary chapel and basement crypt in which the church's original builder and priest, Monsignor Thomas Wallace, was buried from 1906 to 2007, when his body was exhumed and moved to Mt. Hope Cemetery.  In 2015, Knight converted the former crypt into a novelty annex of the Inn at the Agora, reportedly the world's first 'crypt hotel room.'
caption: The Reception Hall inside the Agora Grand Event Center
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