Name/Title
Memorial Park | Main Street, Calais, Maine | Calais Residential Historic DistrictDescription
Built:c. 1891
Address:
Main Street
Calais, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
CALAIS RESIDENTIAL HISTORIC DISTRICT
Section number 7, Page 11:
15. Memorial Park, c. 1891 - C Main Street
City Park is a square area of about two acres bounded by Main, Germaine, Peace, and Lafayette Streets. Its level grass surface is punctuated by a variety of recently planted shade trees, and three structures: a Civil War monument, fountain, and reconstructed wooden bandstand. The mo'nument, erected is its most impressive ornament. Its sculpted and polished tripartite granite base supports a shaft of eight columns on which is mounted an infantryman with his rifle held crosswise to his body. This pose is an unusual one among Civil War monuments in Maine. Like the war memorial, the fountain is of polished dark granite, in this case featuring a shaft rising from the trough that is surmounted by a sphere. The hexagonal bandstand has an enclosed lower half above which are six posts linked by a balustrade and supporting a polygonal roof.