LC Subject Heading: City & town halls
Item 35553
Contributed by: Parsons Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Alfred Media: Phototransparency
Item 108636
High school building, Topsham, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Topsham Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 110083
Preliminary Sketches for Changes in Town Hall, Freeport, 1920-1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920–1930 Location: Freeport Client: Freeport Town Hall Architect: Poor & Thomas
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.
