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Art Work of Bangor, 1895
Title
Art Work of Bangor, 1895
Description
Views of Bangor, Orono, Veazie, Hampden, and Brewer including buildings, streets, and landscapes. "Art Work of Bangor" was a photobook issued in 12 parts published by W.H. Parish Publishing Co., which produced a 150 similar titles in a landmark collotype series between 1891 and 1930.
St. John’s Episcopal church is the gothic structure on French street, near Somerset, and was built in 1837 by the society organized two years previously. Rev. John McGaw Foster, the rector, is the only native of Bangor settled over a Bangor church.
Farther up Hammond street, at the corner of Court, are the county buildings. These include the court house and the substantial granite and brick building containing the jail and sheriffs dwelling. A large brick building attached is the jail workshop, where the inmates are given something to keep them busy.
The next mill erected was five years or so later when Joseph Potter built a mill at the falls near “Lover’s Leap,” on the Kenduskeag stream. This was on the falls where Morse & Co’s salt mill now stands and where for many years stood what was known as McQuesten’s Mills.
In 1879, the beautiful Schwartz residence on State street, which had passed from the family, was purchased by this society and became the Convent of St. Xavier, where a parochial school is conducted by the Sisters of Mercy.
