Hammond and State Street at Kenduskeag Bridge, Bangor, Maine, Circa 1889 to 1899

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Circa Date

1889-1899

Description

Date estimation based on the existence of street rails. The Bangor Street Railway launched in 1889, the second city in the U.S. to have such a system. Also, this could be not later than 1899 because the Morse Oliver Building, at Exchange and Street, had not been built yet.

Much of this area burned in the 1911 fire in downtown Bangor. The building in the foreground, the Wheelwright and Clark Building, did not. This building houses in 2021 the business Mexicali Blues.

Photograph likely taken from the Hersey Building, i.e. Bangor City Hall, on the corner of Hammond and Columbia Street.

Keywords

State Street Bangor Maine, Bangor Maine 19th century, Hammond Street Bangor Maine, Wheelwright and Clark Building, Wheelwright and Clark Block

Location

Bangor Maine

Medium

photograph