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Brick Store Museum

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"Several projects that may have used those bricks were in the works: Charles Bulfinch, a prominent Boston architect and principal in the Broad Street…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864

"… and the old factory before it was rebuilt and the brick store as it was rebuilt and as it appeared in 1864."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"… including the General Store and the Old Twin Brick Store Buildings. Buckfield also had many different practices including a dentist and a doctor."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince residence, Bangor, 1850

"The house and brick tenements and brick store were built in 1832-1833. The house was at 176 Center Street."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"The brick building is captured in a drawing done by John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated a journal…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"… Historical Society, to this day, this 1796 brick building survives and serves as its headquarters. <- Prev. Page .................."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Around 1853 a general store was established in the village and a store/restaurant has operated in the original building ever since then."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Other businessmen built brick stores as Bath's downtown began to shift from one largely of wooden buildings to one of brick."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… And, as the book Agreeable Situations (Brick Store Museum, 1987) records, in about 1800, transfer printed depictions of Portland’s Hannah Robinson…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… that traveled into West Peru village to service a brick factory and other businesses. A pavilion for movies and dances, a starch factory, doctors’…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"It is brick with a granite foundation. Sagadahock National Bank, Bath, ca. 1876 Maine Maritime Museum Before the Lincoln Bank was built in…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"It was a nice brick store, but as the years went on the location became inadequate for Sears. When Bath rejected a massive urban renewal project in…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… logging, lime burning, canals, ship building and brick making all over what was then Lincoln County."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… these national chain stores, two local department stores (Senter’s and Bath Department Store), several men’s clothing stores and beauty parlors…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"… & crossed to Brewer & sketched her from the Brick Wharf oposite Steam Boat wharf. I then went on board & examined her machinery guns & work…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"… by J Robinson to an Irishman and moved to McGaws Brick yard April 6th 1871." The Mrs. Cary to whom he referred was his mother-in-law."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"and a third story was added. To the right is the brick house Peleg Wadsworth built in 1785-1786. It is two stories with a gable roof and has double…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… the Opera House was wood, while the outside was brick. The heating system caught fire and quickly ignited the wood."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"It is a fireproof structure made of limestone and bricks with a granite foundation. There are columns at its entrance to define the curved front…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… of the 1857 tower came a new keeper’s house and a brick utility shed, originally storing heating coal."