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Bangor City Plan: The Burned District
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Your Committee on Civic Improvement, appointed by the Mayor in accordance with a vote of the citizens of Bangor at a mass meeting held May 2, 1911, begs to submit the following report: This report combines the study which your Committee has made, and that made by Mr. Watren H. Manning, Landscape Designer, of Boston, who was retained by your Committee to advise them in the work.
Realizing the need of haste on account of our short building season, your Committee has confined its study entirely to the burned district, but hopes to be able to make reports on the outlying territory from time to time in the near future.
We have tried in this report to recommend only what we considered absolutely necessary to be done at the present time by the City, looking to the future. While we have suggested plans to beautify the City, we have, at the same time tried to make no recommendations that would not in the near future repay the City many fold for the immediate outlay recommended.
P.H. Coombs / J.P. Frawley / F.C. Bragg (Committee of Civic Improvement)https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1191/thumbnail.jp
Road Repair Tax for 1911 Penobscot County
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Downtown and Kenduskeag Stream during fire, Bangor, 1911
No full textThis hand-colored slide shows where the Bangor Fire jumped the Kenduskeag Stream, born along by a strong breeze. The Stetson Building was one of the first to catch fire. The Stetson building was located at 180-182 Exchange street.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1105/thumbnail.jp
Firefighting, Bangor, 1911
No full textStreams of water are poured on businesses on lower Broad Street where the fire broke out, including J. Frank Green\u27s hayshed (the start of the blaze) and Northern Mfg. Co, paint manufacturers located at 164 Broad Street. This slide is labeled Bangor Fire, the start on Broad Streethttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1103/thumbnail.jp
Ruins of First Congregational Church, Bangor, 1911
No full textRuins of the First Congregational Church after the Bangor Fire of April 1911. Located at 14 Broadway, it was organized in November 1811 and built in 1831 of brick with a granite basement. he architecture is attributed to Charles H. Pond, and it was the earliest building in Bangor to feature an applied Gothic style. The slide is labeled Ruins Great Fire State + Oak Sts and Bangor: 1911 First Cong. Church.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1091/thumbnail.jp
Opening streets after fire, Bangor, 1911
No full textThis view after the fire of April 30, 1911, shows the ruins of the Morse Oliver Building on the corner of Exchange and State streets that have been partially dynamited to permit rebuilding. A wheeled ladder rig, probably owned by Bangor Hydro, is being used to repair downed lines. As the streets were slowly re-opened to traffic, many of the Bangor residents chose to ride instead of walk -- an early automobile is bumper-to-bumper with horse-drawn buggies.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1080/thumbnail.jp
1910-11 Bangor, Brewer, Old Town, Orono, and Veazie City Directory
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Rumford Mechanics Institute, incorporated 1911, Rumford, Maine : building completed October, 1911 : building dedicated November 9, 1911
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The object for which the Rumford Mechanics Institute has been created is to furnish to the wage earners of Rumford the best quality of physical and mental, social and moral improvement, at the lowest cost, the cultivation of a more intimate acquaintanceship between the employed and the employer.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1134/thumbnail.jp
Railroad Valuation: Report of the State Assessors to the 75th Legislature of Maine
Get PDFTo the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House:
We respectfully submit the following report in compliance with an order of the Legislature dated March 15th, 1909, That the State Assessors be instructed to ascertain the actual value of all the railroad property in the State of Maine of all kinds, including franchises, real estate, bonds and stock and report to the next Legislature for the purpose of taxation.
We have endeavored to place a reasonable construction upon the direction contained in this order, and from the discussion which preceded its passage in both branches of the Legislature, and the fact that the avowed object of the order was for the purpose of taxation, we are led to believe that the Legislature did not intend to instruct the State Assessors to undertake the impossible task of ascertaining the actual value of this railroad property, but rather that we should, in the light of all the information and facts that we could obtain report what we believed to be a just and reasonable value of the property of each railroad corporation employed in the operation of its business; such a valuation as is defined by the Constitution and laws of the State as the proper basis of taxation.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1168/thumbnail.jp
Franklin Street, Bangor, 1911
No full textThe fire of 1911 left downtown Bangor in ruins. This is Franklin Street which was the only means of passage between the two parts of the city after the fire.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1085/thumbnail.jp