Ruins of the Central Church (Bangor Fire, 1911) · Digital Collections

Item sets: Leyland Whipple Lantern Slides; Views of Bangor's Big Fire, April 30, 1911

Title: Ruins of the Central Church (Bangor Fire, 1911)
Creator: Whipple, Leyland
Date: May 1911
Description: This view is of the Central Congregational Church on French Street after the 1911 fire. The church was designed by Frank A. Bourne in 1902 in the stone Gothic style. The exterior stone work was of pink "Bay of Fundy" granite from St. George, New Brunswick, with trimmings being of Indiana limestone. It was the most expensive church erected in Bangor before the fire of 1911.
Subject: Bangor (Me.)--Fire, 1911; Central Congregational Church (Bangor, Me.); Church architecture--Maine--Bangor; Congregational churches--Maine--Bangor; Fires--Maine--Bangor; French Street (Bangor, Me.); Ruins--Maine--Bangor; Bangor (Me.)--Photographs
Number: Slide 31
Type: Lantern slides; Photographs
Spatial Coverage: Bangor (Me.)
Temporal Coverage: Nineteen tens; Twentieth century
Language: English
Is Part Of: Bangor Public Library Special Collections; Leyland Whipple Lantern Slides
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