HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987-03-23 87-128 ORDINANCEIntroduce3 by Councilor Shubert, March 23, 1987
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Be it orlav by Gu My cawwicof tie City sfBawy r. ae fWaua:
THAT dapter Wl, Article 4, Sec. 5 of the Laws and ordinances of the City
of & ngar be anre by adding the foll� thereto:
5.1.8 State Street Historic DisnriM. An arta enMNT555inp the pxpperties
located at 241 State street 247 State Street and 20 Hewbr Street, said
area bevy pore particularly described on a plan emirs "State Street
Historic DisKitt", on file in the office of the City Clerk.
Stateerent of Purpose: The purpose of this avert-$ent to the so called
Historic Preservation Ordinance is to create a
new historic district to enxrntaee buildings
erected in the State Street Arm. A facsimile
of the aforarmtion i plan being attacFwli hereto.
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In City council. March 23,1?81i1TLE) Avendiror Chapter VII Article 4
refered to historic Preservation
committee consider text Section 5 of tie Laws and ordinances
meeting of the City oP Banger — creation of the
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Intit Bund t pe to
City Clerl W
IN CITY COUNCIL --ilmOn -
April 15, 1987
Passed by the following yes
and no votes. Councilor
voting yes: Brown, Con, Frankel. -
Lebowitz, Sullivan, Tilley and
Willey. Couacilors absent:
Sawyer and Shubert.
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Bangor City Council 13 April 87
From,
Bavngorlusi Historic Preservation Commission
Subject, Inclusion of State Street Historic District
the Bangor Nietorlc Preservation OrdIssnce
The State Santler
the F fleet "-Smith
HHistoric D;etr;ct includes 241 State Street,
and 20 Na beurny S6reetHOuse, 24? Steta Street.
have all Dean nominete the Bagbee House. Theaehe Fire Station,
Places end approved b d to the Ntional Register
building.
Y the States Commission forof Historic
On April 17th: a public hearing °t designation.
20 Newbury Street g ng was held and the owner of
The Farrington- approved the tlegignaotion
mets list Smith Nouse is already n n at that time.
Haldacci. hThenf'been nominated by its o he Bangor Lend_
and request for �e station is owned D caner, Robert
one appeared in desiOppossiition. ation came hom City Office
He
The
Histor
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laous
Preserv¢tiYB6 S4ation District lyunder Pprove the State Street
to a
on Ordinance. the Bangor Histor;e
C Woodcoc
Chairman
MAINE HISTORIC PRBMVATION COMMISSION
55 Capitol Street
State House Station 65
Augusta, Maine 04333
April 9, 1987
Joan WNf1NCk. C1. 13i[wraan
Bangor Historic Preservation Camiission
225 Ce0ai Street
Bangor, ME 04401
D ar Joan:
In [espouse to your recent request, I harms renrii the historic
and arcititectural significance of three properties which comprise time
State Street District.
T_ find that these prcpe ies are of considerable historic anst ar-
chitectu[al value to the community, oral I Scold wnaor with any laM-
park dasiSnation Mich y lknmission ewla make for them under the
provisions of taaM rls Historic ' Pre5e[Vation p inance. _
If I can be of fu[thNassistence conerning this matter, please do
rot t irate to let use know.
Sire[ely,
.Sri ew[th, Jr. e
State HIS toric`cer
Telephone:
209-289-2133
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The State Street Historic District
The proposed Historic District comprises the David Hughes
House, 20 Newbury Street; the Comfort C. Farrington -Gen.
Joseph S. Smith House, 241 State Street' and the State Street
Fire Station, 247 State Street. Its boundaries would extend
from the property line on the BE side of the Hughes House to
State Street on the Rw line of the Farrington -Smith House i
northeasterly direction, crossing Salem Court to the prop-
erty line on the east side of the Fire Station, and thence
running westerly to Salem Court and southwards to the point
of beginning.
The Farrington -Smith House has already been designated a
historic landmark under the Ordinances of the City of Bangor
(Ch. VII; Art. 4; Sec. 5.3.31). All three are in the process
of nomination to the National Register but according to Nat -
nal Register criteria, their nominations will be processed
individually because they are not regarded as being related to
each other. However, from the point of view of the local sig-
nificance, they should be considered as a district nomination
nation
because they are the last group of adjacent properties capable
of district designation that show the high quality of this
former residential boulevard which has been subject to irreg-
ular commercial development for the past fifty years.
The three adjacent properties in the proposed district are
important designs by two of Bangor's great architects, Benjamin
S. Deane (1790-1867) and Wilfred E. Mansur (1855-1921).
The dates of the three buildings a Hughes House, 1859-6Q;.
Farrington House, 1848; and Fire Station, 1897.
The Farrington -Smith House is one of the earliest Italianate
houses in Bangor and; signigicantly, it is one of the last
important brick houses built in the citybefore the late Colonial.
Revival. As the century wore on, Bangor houses consciously o
unconsciously acknowledged the source of the city's leading arch-
itect of the 1840'x, Benjamin S.Deane, for a number of reasons.
It is adapted from a plan in W. Ranlett, The Architect, a source
Deane is known to have used for the Col. Oliver Frost House (Deane
was much given to the adaptation of published plans and the same
procedure can be witnessed in his George Stetson House). Its
proportions and trim and decorative details like the special type
of etched glass in the sidelights are like the same details in
documented houses by Deane but are not found in the works of
other architects; and it is in Deane's neighborhood --he lived
across the street. Comfort C. Farrington was the well-to-do
widow of a housewright. She apparently was
something of -a -
oisseur of architecture because her house was very advanced for
its period.
After the Civil War the house became the property of Gen. Joseph._
Sewall Smith, and the relatively few alterationsOfits interior. '..
State Street Historic District - 2
(replaced staircase, late 19th century trim over chimney pieces,
Tudor paneling of diningroom ceiling( date from his ownership.
Source: Deborah Thompson, Bangor, Maine 1769 to 1914: An Arch-
itectural History (University of Maine Press, in press, hereafter
Thompson, ART, 247-49.
The David Hughes House, 20 Newbury St., was the third mansard
built in Bangor, by a bookseller, stationer and publisher of city
directories. The reasons for its attribution to Deane and the
relation of its gambrel mansard gable to the design of the Henry
0. Houghton House, Cambridge, are discussed in Thompson, AH, 292-
93.
The State Street Fire Station is well documented design by
Mansur. It is perhaps his finest work in the eclectic but pre-
dominantly Richardsonian Romanesque style that he favored for
institutional buildings in the 1890's. Source: Thompson, AN,
493-94.
Deborah Thompson
March, 1987
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