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La Basilique Lewiston

Interior, St. Peter Church, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Interior, St. Peter Church, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Item 18369 info
Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries

Despite the addition of two tiers of balconies and construction of chapel-schools in the Little Canada section of Lewiston and in New Auburn, by the turn of the century, the original Saint Pierre Church was deemed inadequate for what had become Maine's largest Catholic parish.