Maine State Building
Poland, United States
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Built for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designed by Maine-born architect Charles Sumner Frost, the Maine State Building is a Queen Anne–style structure constructed entirely of Maine materials—granite from ten state quarries and slate roofing from the Monson Slate Company. After the fair, the Ricker family purchased the building for $30,000 and undertook an elaborate relocation, dismantling it under the supervision of the resort's head carpenter and shipping it via sixteen freight cars to Poland Springs, Maine, where it was reassembled and dedicated on July 1, 1895. Originally configured with a library and reading room on the first floor, guest bedrooms on the second, and an art gallery on the third, the building now operates as the Nettie Ricker Art Gallery under the Poland Spring Preservation Society, presenting changing exhibitions of local and regional art.
Architect
Movement
- Built
- Type
- library, exhibition park
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Register of Historic Places contributing property
- Place
- Poland, United States
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