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PHOTO: The Peter Gomes Chapel at Bates College was named to the Maine Preservation 2020 Honors List, and was also named People’s Choice winner at the Nov. 12 awards event. (Submitted photo)
YARMOUTH – Maine Preservation has named several historic preservation projects in the Turner Publishing circulation area to its 2020 Honors List.
The list celebrates outstanding examples of historic preservation and revitalization statewide and recognizes the owners, professionals, preservationists and partners who make them possible.
This year’s winners were celebrated at a virtual awards ceremony on Nov. 12, where more than 700 voters also picked the Peter J. Gomes Chapel at Bates College in Lewiston as the People’s Choice winner.
“When completed, these buildings lift the economics of the areas around them and the spirits of the citizens benefitting from them,” Greg Paxton, Maine Preservation executive director said. “These projects recall the history of their surrounds and our predecessors that built and used them, while filling current needs.”
Winning projects are:
Hallowell: The Central and Erskine buildings, at the former Maine Industrial School for Girls, now Stevens Commons, developed by Mastway Development, of Hallowell. The Central Building is a senior residents, the Erskine Building is a a University of Maine, Augusta, residence.
Bath: Harvey Block / Morris Povich Building. A partnership between Mike Terriault and Terry Geaghan, of Bath Brewing Co., and Sean Ireland, of Windward Development.
Bath: Medanick Building. Redevelopment was by Brett Johnson and Rowan Wagner, co-owners of Maine Street Design Co., who worked with Windward Development’s Ireland.
Brunswick: Boody-Johnson House. Now a residence on the Bowdoin College campus, the Gothic Revival cottage is a landmark in the development of American wooden domestic architecture.
Lewiston: St. Patrick’s Convent / Sophia’s House. The former convent reopened in January as Sophia’s House, owned by The Center for Wisdom’s Women, and is a long-term residence for women survivors of trafficking, exploitation, incarceration and addiction. A community effort by St. Mary’s Health System, which donated the building, Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, the city of Lewiston, and donations from community members.
Lewiston: Bates College Chapel/Peter J. Gomes Chapel. Bhe two-phase project to take care of deterioration of the 1913 building was led by Consigli Construction and engineering consulting firm Thornton Tomasetti.
Lisbon: Lisbon High School/Lisbon Village School Apartments. The 1893 Lisbon High School building became a grammar school in 1944, closed and was sold in 1960, and after some other uses, by 2018, it was slated for demolition. Bob Strout of R & L Strout & Son Building Contractors and his wife, Aline, the senior citizens coordinator for the town, bought it and restored it, with the help of architect Dennis Douglas, Rick Mason of Rick Mason’s Excavation, and more than a dozen other contractors and craftsmen. The Strouts and four other families now live in the building.
Other projects making the list were the Brooklin IOOF Hall, St. John’s Catholic Church, Bangor; York Manufacturing Mill No. 3/Run of the Mill Lofts and York Manufacturing Mill No. 4/Saco Mill No. 4, Saco. Chris Glass, of Camden, won the Lifetime Dedication Award. Maine Steeples Fund was named the Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. Preservation Champion Award.
For in-depth descriptions of this year’s winners and what makes them special, visit the Maine Preservation website.
