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The Continental Mill Housing blocks are located on the east side of Oxford Street on the west side of central Lewiston, facing the former Continental Mill complex, which lies between them and the Androscoggin River. The two buildings are nearly identical four-story brick structures, with shallow-pitch hip roofs with bracketed cornice, interior ...
Lewiston was developed as a major textile center beginning in the 1830s by John and William Frye. The Franklin Company, which operated the mills, owned much of the land in the area, and laid out its streets. Bates College was founded in 1864, named for later mill owner Benjamin E. Bates. The area in between the city's downtown and the Bates ...
Developed beginning in 1850, Lewiston's canals and mills were the largest textile mill complex in the state, and one of the best-preserved mature large-scale expressions of the Lowell system of cotton textile manufacturing, perfected at Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts earlier in the 19th century. The district includes a series power canals ...
The Holland–Drew House is a historic house at 377 Main Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1854, it is a high-quality local example of Italianate architecture executed in brick. It is also notable for some of its owners, who were prominent in the civic and business affairs of the city.
The Lower Lisbon Street Historic District encompasses part of the earliest commercial center of Lewiston, Maine.Located on the west side of Lisbon Street, the city's main commercial area, between Cedar and Chestnut Streets are a collection of commercial buildings representing a cross section of architectural styles, built between 1850 and 1950.
The First McGillicuddy Block is an historic commercial building at 133 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine.The block was built in 1895 by Daniel J. McGillicuddy, and is one of two surviving local examples of the work of local architect Jefferson Coburn.
The First Callahan Building is an historic commercial and residential building at 276 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine.Built in 1892 to a design by noted local architect George M. Coombs, the Renaissance Revival brick building was part of a major development on the city's main commercial street by the Callahan brothers, owners of a local gentleman's furnishings store.
Built in 1855-56, it is the oldest surviving building in the city of the Franklin Company, the city's major early developer. The building has house many local civic groups, and served as Lewiston's town hall prior to its incorporation as a city in 1863. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]