Name/Title
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church | 39 Hersey Road, Pembroke, MaineDescription
Pembroke, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.40:
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (1855)
Carl K. Hersey wrote in 1982 that from 1828 iron works were bµilt in Pembroke, the 1849-1880 Pembroke Iron Works Company alone employing 300 workers, many immigrants from England and Ireland. Besides the companys small chapel fOT Catholic workers, the iarger St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church was built in 1855. A covered entrance, five windows on each side, a cross on the roof, beautify this house of worship, which has neither tower nor steeple. Although the original pews remain 140 years later, the present altar came later to Pembroke from St. Josephs Catholic Church in Eastport. Catholic worshipers from Alexander, Robbinston, Charlotte, Cooper, Perry, Edmunds, Dennysville, as well as Pembroke, continue to attend confession and mass at St. Johns Church here. CKH. JCB
