Keywords: Merrill Auditorium
Item 6188
Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, Portland, 2000
Contributed by: Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Date: 2000 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 148514
City Hall Auditorium seats, Portland, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Portland Media: Wood, wool, iron
Item 109956
Merrill Auditorium renovations, Portland, 1931-1992
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931–1992 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Stockly & Leahy Assoc.
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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lillian Nordica, Farmington, ca. 1911
"The concert was held at Merrill Auditorium at the Farmington Normal School. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ
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