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If you are sick, or you have been in contact with someone who is sick with COVID or has symptoms of COVID, you should stay home, not participate in in-person Halloween festivities, and not give out candy to trick-or-treaters. Many traditional Halloween activities can be high-risk for spreading viruses. There are several safer, alternative ways to participate in Halloween:.

Lower risk activities These lower risk activities can be safe alternatives:. Carving or decorating pumpkins with members of your household and displaying them. Carving or decorating pumpkins outside, at a safe distance, with neighbors or friends. Decorating your house, apartment, or living space. Doing a Halloween scavenger hunt where children are given lists of Halloween-themed things to look for while they walk outdoors from house to house admiring Halloween decorations at a distance.

Having a Halloween movie night with people you live with. Having a scavenger hunt-style trick-or-treat search with your household members in or around your home rather than going house to house. Moderate risk activities. Participating in one-way or otherwise distanced trick-or-treating where individually wrapped food or goodie bags are lined up or otherwise accessible for families to grab and go while continuing to maintain physical distance such as at the end of a driveway, yard, or on a doorstep.

If you are preparing goodie bags, wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after preparing the bags. Having a small group, outdoor, open-air costume parade where people are distanced more than 6 feet apart. Attending a costume party held outdoors where protective face coverings are used and people can remain more than 6 feet apart. A costume mask such as for Halloween is not a substitute for a cloth face covering. Do not wear a costume mask over a protective cloth face covering because it can be dangerous if the costume mask makes it hard to breathe.

Instead, consider using a Halloween-themed cloth face covering. Originally a flat roofed two story Italianate dwelling built in by William T. Billiard, it was altered in by Hamlin with addition of a Mansard roof, effectively adding a third story. The design was executed by the distinguished church architect John D. Towle of Boston. The walls were also raised and the building lengthened by about twenty feet.

Jenkins House is an urban Gothic cottage. Unlike its more lavishly detailed contemporaries, it embodies the attributes of the Gothic Revival style through modest window hoods and a steeply pitched roof.

The residential Gothic Revival in Bangor is a direct outgrowth of the construction of St. Charles W. Jenkins was the nephew of a devout convert to Episcopalianism, James Jenkins, who was instrumental in settling the unpaid debts of St.

James probably influenced Charles Jenkins in his choice of style and architect. The house is a free adaptation of a Rural Gothic cottage. Its plan is unusual and has splendid interior spaces. Kent practiced law in Bangor and served as its Mayor during and He then served two terms as Governor in and Designed in the Greek Revival style, the house is one of exceptional beauty.

Beyond its architectural significance, and that one of its original owners became governor, the Cutting-Kent House is an excellent example of the style in which the lumber aristocracy of Bangor lived in the s. This aristocracy controlled local politics and heavily influenced state affairs.

The Low House stands on one of the most beautiful locations in Bangor. As originally intended, the Hill would be a showplace development for the elite of Bangor in the s and s. The entire view is framed by the trees that Dwinel caused to be planted in the s.

It remains one of the finest examples of architecture and urban planning in those halcyon Bangor days before the Civil War. The sophisticated placement and design bespeak volumes of the varied talents available in an essentially frontier city.

Designed by Harvey Graves of Boston, who executed several designs for churches in Bangor; including the Universalist in the s and the Free Will Baptist in , it remains his finest Bangor work.

Kelly photo]. Morse in In Llewellyn J. Morse and Hiram P. Oliver leased the Drummond sawmill on Kenduskeag Stream. Eight years later they purchased the mill. In the old grist mill was demolished, redesigned, and rebuilt for steam power. The partners purchased the McQuestion mill on the same stream in For years the company was the largest salt grinder in New England.

In their sawmill capacity produced between , board-feet daily. The firm handled , bushels of corn and 80, pounds of wool a year. They also harvested ice. Their carefully crafted materials were used in Beacon Street town houses in Boston and summer residences in Bar Harbor. Locally, the company provided materials for rebuilding large areas in Bangor after the disastrous fire of Route 2] Opened in , Mt.

It has grown from fifty acres in the s to three hundred acres in the s. The earliest section is located on and immediately surrounding the large hill called Mt. Hope, containing many of the most historic features of the cemetery such as the following.

The Lodge c. General Samuel Veazie Tomb c. It is marked by a handsome granite Greek Revival monument ornamented with wreaths and capped by an urn. The grounds are surrounded by a fence of stately granite posts, an intricate cast iron gate and railings.

Fred E. Bradford Stone The marble stone is an example of the rich Victorian carved symbolism found on markers throughout the older sections. Bradford died at 23, and his parents erected a stone expressing their grief. Above the inscription is a carved scene of Death breaking the column of life. Behind her stands Father Time with his scythe and hour glass. The broken column was a popular Victorian symbol for death at a young age. It incorporates in its mansard transformation much of what was apparently a very large, well built Federal house.

Edward Sargent was one of a family of builder-architects active in Bangor from the beginning of the 19th century. His house was under construction in , during the British occupation of Bangor. By the early s, Sargent had turned from building to farming on the Dutton Road and his house passed to Amos M.

Roberts, an important lumberman, later a banker. Sargent seems to have become prosperous and served as a community leader in the few years remaining before his death. The Greek Revival alterations were made by Roberts. He apparently felt the house needed further upgrading to the current style right after the Civil War. The remodeling was partly a response to the wave of mansard construction that has just begun. A mansion-size house became the mark of the successful man usually lumberman in Bangor.

Roberts, however, retained the Federal detailing of the rooms. Benjamin S. Deane was probably the remodeling architect because of the bell-shaped gable, than originated in his work and the generally simple effect of the design. The curved roof was out of style, but often appears in Bangor mansards of the s in imitation of the earlier mansards in the city. Built in , this house and the Charles Q. The Zebulon Smith House is not only important to the architectural history of Bangor but to Maine as well.

It was to be a symbol to the Irish community of their identity within the community as a whole. Two years before, their own priest had been ridden out of Ellsworth on a rail complete with a suit of tar and feathers.

In , Bangor was at the height of the Know-Nothing movement controlling the city council and a Baptist minister for a Marshall appointed to end the grog trade among the predominantly Irish owned grog shops on the waterfront. While the church was being built, Irish laborers stood guard against threats of the Know-Nothings to burn it to the ground. The church maintains much of its original flavor with its statue of St. Patrick to the left of the main altar and its high mahogany organ imported from Boston.

The church stands in what was once the heart of the old Irish community. Handsomely proportioned and boldly detailed, the Greek Revival Isaac Farrar House shows Upjohn to be a talented designer in this style. Symphony House retains many of the features of the original house.

Isaac Farrar , for whom the house was built, came to Bangor from Dexter in He was a lumberman, merchant and president of the Maritime Bank of Bangor. Other notable people lived in the house. Charles B. Sanford, who lived there from , was proprietor of the Sanford Steamship Lines. The House was a private residence until Owner Isaac Merrill made many changes to the house.

He removed the wall around the property line, moved the entrance door forward and added a bay window above it. He added bay windows to the sides and another story was added. From until , the house was occupied as a residence by the University of Maine Law School, called Stewart Hall. Veazie House is a striking Second Empire style residence. Jones P. Veazie was a member of a prominent local family and was active in a number of businesses as well as founding in the Bangor Gazette.

He died in before it was finished. Nearly a full year passed before his wife took possession of her house. She occupied it until her death.

In the property was acquired by William McCrillis Sawyer, whose daughter and her husband made it their residence in the 20 th century.

Double houses made their appearance in Federal Bangor and remained a popular form in the city throughout the heyday of its land boom.

Developers sought to make as much money from the land in the city as in the timberlands beyond it, and the city consciously imitated Bostonian forms. Double houses and terraces or row houses became less popular with the rise of the Italianate style in the s. If you are looking for information or a particular map that you don't see here, contact our GIS department at gishelp bangormaine. Bangor street map featuring operational layers for parcels, sublots, labels, parcel numbers, dimensions, and zoning.

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