Name/Title
Union Hall (Town Hall) | 52 Depot Street, Danforth, MaineDescription
Built:1890
Danforth, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.1:
UNION HALL (TOWN HALL)
Union Hall (now the Town Hall) is a clapboarded, two-story wooden frame building with three bays. Under a hip roof, the square tower with clock in the center, faces north. Above the broad gable roofed porch, held up by six posts, the first floor is half hidden. Below one of the clocks four faces is a 12-over-12 double sash window. A louvered belfry, above the clock, has a roof shaped like a pyramid, with a wea:thervane. Another Queen Anne style is on the second floor. Born in New Hampshire, in 1846, architect Edwin E. Lewis moved to Gardiner, Maine in 1875, and in 1890 designed Union Hall as well as 59 other buildings. Since 1906 both Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges have occupied the second floor, but the first floor has always been the town hall, with a stage, twin staircases to the gallery making up the towns auditorium. KFM,JCB