Maine History Online

Under curé Mothon's stewardship, the parish continued to prosper.

A hospital, boys' and girls' orphanages, Maine's first bilingual schools and other religious and social institutions were established.

One of these was the Dominican Block at Lincoln and Chestnut streets that included classrooms on the second and third floors, retail space on the first floor, and a large community room on the fourth floor.

In the photo, boys are lined up to the left, girls to the right, and the nuns are visible in the windows of the second- and third-floor classrooms.