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When founded, it was known as the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital. Its name was changed in 1913 to Bangor State Hospital, and then to Bangor Mental Health Institute. In 2005 it was renamed the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, in honor of Dorothea Dix, a pioneering 19th-century advocate for the improved treatment of the mentally ill.
Exchange Street was known as Fish Street until around 1810. In 1837, Court Street, which ran between Federal Street and Congress Street, became part of Exchange Street. [4] Tommy's Park stands at the northwestern corner of Exchange Street's intersection with Middle Street, while Post Office Park is at the northeastern corner.
Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, ... There was a 50% increase in the number of admitted patients between 1900 and 1901, bringing the number of patients admitted in ...
The building is one of few in the Exchange St. district of Bangor to have escaped both the Great Fire of 1911 and the so-called urban renewal programme of the late 1960s. Nichols Block (1892) Wilfred Mansur, architect
The Charles G. Bryant Double House is a historic residential duplex at 16-18 Division Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1836 as a speculative venture by architect Charles G. Bryant , it has, unlike many similar local buildings of the period, retained most of its original Greek Revival styling.
Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr. longtime columnist and editor for The Bangor Daily News. Born in Old Town, Maine, Leavitt became a cub reporter at The Bangor Daily Commercial at age 17 in 1934. Following the Second World War, Leavitt signed on with The News, where he filed, during the course of his career, 13,104 columns devoted to the outdoors, and ...
Yellowstone timeline explained. While the hit show Yellowstone may have come out first, the Dutton family tree goes back much further than the Paramount show’s premiere. The series has two ...
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.