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Description
A watercolor perspective shows the proposed St. Mary's church to be built on Cedar Street in Lewiston.
Before Timothy G. O'Connell of O'Connell and Shaw designed the Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Lewiston in 1928, this Boston ecclesiastical firm had already received the commission for St. Mary's Catholic Church on Cedar Street in the same city.
Completed in 1926, St. Mary's is shown in this rendering by Full as located in an open landscape setting. However this Neo-Gothic granite church was actually sited on Cedar Street in the midst of a densely populated Franco-American working-class neighborhood surrounded by textile mills, mill housing blocks, and tenement houses.
Rev. Eugene Gauthier was the pastor at the time of this rendering (name appears on drawing).
About This Item
- Title: St. Mary's Church, Lewiston, ca. 1925
- Creator: O'Connell and Shaw
- Creation Date: circa 1925
- Subject Date: circa 1925
- Location: Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME
- Media: Watercolor on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 2464
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Architectural drawing
- Catholic Church -- Maine -- Lewiston
- Church buildings -- Maine -- Lewiston
- O'Connell, Timothy G., 1868-1955
- Shaw, Richard J., d. 1958
- St. Mary's Church (Lewiston, Me.)
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