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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
88303A
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
10-5-1957
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior view of Stroudwater Baptist Church, 1729 Congress Street, from east. The parish's history is connected to the Temperance Movement (Neal Dow, Fred Dow, and Lillian M. N. Stevens). A congregation began meeting at the site in 1875, the church was built in 1882, and remodeled in 1908.
(A southwest view of the church, taken in 1967, can be seen at this link.)
Photo published in the Portland Press Herald, on 5 October 1957
Recommended Citation
"Stroudwater Baptist Church, 1957" (1957). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 303.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/303
Keywords
Portland, Me., Stroudwater, Houses of worship, Churches