Children's Home, Bangor, circa 1870
- Title
- Children's Home, Bangor, circa 1870
- Creator
- Trask & Dole
- Date
- 1870
- Description
- The Bangor Children's Home was completed in 1869 following the design of Henry W. Hartwell. It was designed in memory of Sarah, the late wife of Franklin W. Pitcher, and built with $25,000 which he donated. Although it derived from the Bangor Female Orphan Asylum, chartered in 1839, the state legislature granted a new charter as the home was under construction allowing the admission of boys. The back of the building is shown below the rise of Thomas Hill. Samuel Prentiss donated the land next to the Home to serve as a playground. Located on Ohio Street, the Home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
- Subject
- Bangor Children's Home (Bangor, Me.)
- Hartwell, Henry W.
- Historic buildings--Maine--Bangor
- Ohio Street (Bangor, Me.)
- Orphanages--Maine--Bangor
- Thomas Hill (Bangor, Me.)
- Bangor (Me.)--Photographs
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Temporal Coverage
- Nineteenth century
- Language
- English
- Source
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- James B. Vickery Stereograph Collection
- Is Part Of
- Stereoscopic Views by Trask & Dole
- Rights
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