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Coordinates: 44°36′59″N 67°45′20″W / 44.61639°N 67.75556°W / 44.61639; -67.75556
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Union Evangelical Church
Union Evangelical Church is located in Maine
Union Evangelical Church
Union Evangelical Church is located in the United States
Union Evangelical Church
Nearest cityAddison, Maine
Coordinates44°36′59″N 67°45′20″W / 44.61639°N 67.75556°W / 44.61639; -67.75556
Arealess than one acre
Built1860
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.96000654[1]
Added to NRHPJune 07, 1996

The Union Evangelical Church is a historic church on Ridge Road in Addison, Maine. Built about 1860, it is a well-preserved example of a transitional Greek Revival-Gothic Revival church building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

Description and history

The Union Evangelical Church is located west of Addison's village center, at the junction of Ridge Road with Church Hill Lane. It is set on a rise overlooking the Pleasant River, providing a spectacular view of the Maine coast. The building is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The roof is topped by a two-stage square tower, consisting of a low first stage, and a belfry stage with rectangular louvers in each wall, framed by projecting hoods and pilasters. A simple dentillated cornice caps that stage. The tower was apparently once topped by crenellations. The building corners have pilasters with lancet-arched panels, rising to a broad entablature extending across the front and sides. The front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances on either side of a central pair of long and narrow windows. The window and doors are topped by Gothic drip molding, a detail carried to the windows on the sides.[2]

The first church was built on this site in 1789, and was destroyed in a gale in 1839. The second church, built soon afterward, was destroyed by fire resulting from a lightning strike in 1860. The present church was built soon afterward; its designer and builder are not known, but the church is stylistically similar to another in nearby Columbia.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Union Evangelical Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
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