Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Maine Grange Project - part 2

Jeff Kirlin and I continue our effort to photograph every Grange Hall in Maine. I drove to Boston last weekend and managed to photograph another dozen or so on the way down and back.

Most Grange Halls have a distinctive architectural design and are easy to spot. They're usually rather simple, barn like structures like the ones below:

Mousam Lake Grange in Shapleigh

Highland Lake Grange in Westbrook

Bauneg Beg Grange in North Berwick

Hollis Grange

However, some Granges are a bit fancier like these:

Pownal Grange (now the Town Office)

Benton Grange

Waterboro Grange

John F. Hill Grange in Eliot

Alas, not all Granges Halls are grand examples of the classic New England meeting house design. Some are much humbler in appearance:

Litchfield Grange

Riverside Grange in Lebanon

3 comments:

Lisa/knitnzu said...

stil no augusta grange... what are we, pariahs?

jkirlin said...

I'm not going to do the Augusta Grange! It's all your Bill. :)

Turnbill said...

Lisa, where is the Augusta Grange? If I could find it, I'd photograph it.