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Description
First Church was built at the corner of Church and Spring streets. The building is Federal style with a square clock tower, open octagonal belfry surmounted by an octagonal cupola with a wrought-iron weathervane. The congregation formed in 1796. The construction of the building began in June, 1818 and the new meetinghouse was dedicated on November 15, 1818.
In May of 1819 a Paul Revere Bell was hung in the belfry. In 1836 the town owned clock, designed by Belfast clock makers, Timothy Chase and Phineas P. Quimby, was installed.
About This Item
- Title: First Church, Belfast, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Belfast, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 11.5 cm x 9 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Bell towers--Maine--Belfast
- Clock towers--Maine--Belfast
- Churches--Maine--Belfast
- Architectural elements
- Revere, Paul, 1735-1818--Associated objects
- Church bells--Maine--Belfast
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Belfast Historical Society10 Market Street, Belfast, ME 04915
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