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The district also includes some immediate side streets of equal status, notably French Street, whose houses overlooked downtown Bangor from a bluff. The first residences built along the street's green strip in the 1820s-30s were large brick double-houses and single-houses, again conformed to the city-scape of Boston.
Bangor (/ ˈ b æ ŋ ɡ ɔːr / BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States.The city proper has a population of 31,753, [3] making it the state's third-most populous city, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121).
West Market Square was a central focal point of Bangor's commercial business activity into the 20th century. The east side of the square is lined by six, built between c. 1834 and 1870, with the seventh building in the historic district, the Merrill Trust Company building at 2 Hammond Street, located just off the square to the northeast.
The Adams-Pickering Block is a historic commercial building at Main and Middle Streets in Bangor, Maine.Built in 1873, it is one of the major surviving works of local architect George W. Orff in the city, and one of the few of the period to survive Bangor's Great Fire of 1911.
The Whitney Park Historic District is a residential historic district on the west side of Bangor, Maine.The district contains 42 residential properties built between 1850 and 1910, a major period of the city's growth, and is anchored on its south by Whitney Park, a small triangular park at Hammond and Cedar Streets.
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The Building at 84–96 Hammond Street in Bangor, Maine, is a historically significant commercial and residential structure.Actually an amalgamation of three buildings constructed between 1834 and c. 1875, it is a rare surviving element of Bangor's once-significant furniture manufacturing industry, having seen use in that endeavor from the 1830s until the 1980s.
The Hammond Street Church is located in central Bangor, on the south side of Hammond Street (United States Route 2 and Maine State Route 100) between High and North High Streets. The building is set facing northwest, its long axis paralleling High Street. It is a two-story brick building, with a projecting pavilion topped by a wooden tower.