LC Subject Heading: Buildings
Item 161
Portland Observatory Poster, ca. 1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1937 Location: Portland Media: Paper
Item 66989
Gilman School renovation, Waterville, 2010
Contributed by: Kennebec Valley Community College Archive Date: 2010 Location: Waterville Media: Digital photograph
Item 37230
15-23 Commercial Street (ex.), Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland Use: Club House
Item 37235
23-31 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: William J Foley Use: Office
Item 116317
Small Baptist Church, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects
Item 109093
North Elementary School, Rockland, 1952-1955
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952–1955 Location: Rockland Client: Town of Rockland Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
