Great Fire of 1911 Historic District
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Great Fire of 1911 Historic District
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Bangor Public Library Dome
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| Location | Harlow, Center, Park, State, York, and Central Streets Bangor, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 44°48′13″N 68°46′16″W / 44.80361°N 68.77111°WCoordinates: 44°48′13″N 68°46′16″W / 44.80361°N 68.77111°W |
| Area | 24 acres (9.7 ha) |
| Built | 1911 |
| Architect | multiple |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Renaissance |
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| Added to NRHP | June 14, 1984 |
The Great Fire of 1911 Historic District is located in downtown Bangor, Maine, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. It preserves Maine's most significant collection of early 20th century public and commercial buildings, and commemorates an urban re-building campaign matched only by Portland's following its own destruction by fire in 1866. The Great Fire of 1911 was Maine's (and one of the nation's) last large-scale urban conflagrations, but resulted in the creation of an early 20th-century urban space relatively unique in Maine or northern New England.
The district comprises 48 buildings (and three parks), most of them constructed between 1911 and 1915 in the burned area, which accounted for half of Bangor's commercial core. Stylistically, the rebuilding was mainly a showcase for the Renaissance Revival, but with elements of the Romanesque Revival, Chicago School, Prairie Style, Art Deco, Classical Revival, and Colonial Revival. The designs were contributed by a number of nationally-prominent architectural firms, including Peabody and Stearns; Carrere and Hastings; and Jardine, Kent, and Murdoch; as well as U.S. government architect Oscar Wenderoth, and local architects C. Parker Crowell, Wilfred E. Mansur, Victor Hodgins, and Frederick A. Patterson. Every building except one is of brick, though some are steel-framed, two are faced with terra-cotta, and two are completely sheathed in granite. The coloration and patterning of the brickwork is extremely varied.
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