Keywords: Congregational House
Item 26613
Thomaston Academy and Congregational Meeting House, Thomaston, ca. 1855
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Thomaston Media: Engraving, lithograph
Item 27635
Hampden Congregational Church, Hampden, 1893
Contributed by: Hampden Historical Society Date: 1893 Location: Hampden Media: Photographic print
Item 85930
187-195 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Woodford Congregational Parish Use: Dwelling
Item 85931
Assessor's Record, 191 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Woodford Congregational Parish Use: Stable
Item 111891
Williston Church alterations, Portland, 1904-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904–1946 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation
Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park
"… Church, stayed on the west side and took the Congregational Church, and again jumped the street and took the Methodist Church."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3
"Congregational Church, Strong, ca. 1950 The Congregational Church was built in 1848 on a knoll overlooking Depot Street and Main Street."
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
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.