Pilsbury Block

The Pilsbury Block is an historic commercial building at 200-210 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The block was built in 1870, and is a late example of Italianate architecture, exhibiting some Romanesque details. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

Pilsbury Block
Pilsbury Block
Pilsbury Block is located in Maine
Pilsbury Block
Pilsbury Block is located in the United States
Pilsbury Block
Location200-210 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Maine
Coordinates44°5′44″N 70°13′1″W
Built1870
Built byJesse T. Stevens
ArchitectWilliam H. Stevens; Fassett & Stevens
Architectural styleItalianate, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.83000446[1]
Added to NRHPApril 14, 1983

Description and history

The Pilsbury Block is located on Lisbon Street, Lewiston's principal commercial thoroughfare, at the northeast corner with Pine Street. It is a three-story masonry structure with a narrow rounded bay at the street corner. The upper floors are divided into large bays, five facing Pine Street and six facing Lisbon, each set in a recessed arched panel. There are paired windows in each panel, set in round-arch openings on the third floor and segmented-arch openings on the second. The ground floor storefronts are set in groups of segmented-arch or flat-topped segments of stone, with either display windows or entrances topped by transom windows. The building is capped by a corbelled brickwork cornice.[2]

The oldest portion of the building, the corner section, was built in 1870 for George H. Pilsbury by Jesse T. Stevens, a local engineer. The architect may have been William H. Stevens, who was closely associated with Pilsbury in the Franklin Company[3] and the Lewiston Institution for Savings (later the Peoples' Savings Bank).[4] In 1873 it was enlarged by the addition of three bays on Lisbon Street. The addition is known to have been designed by Stevens, now practicing as Fassett & Stevens. The building is one of Lewiston's oldest surviving commercial buildings, and a rare example of transitional Italianate-Romanesque architecture.[2]

The Pilsbury Block is now part of Lewiston Public Library.[5]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Pilsbury Block". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  3. Hodgkin, Douglas I. Frontier to Industrial City: Lewiston Town Politics 1768-1863. 2008.
  4. Acts and Resolves of the Fifthy-Fourth Legislature of the State of Maine. 1875.
  5. "HISTORIC LEWISTON: A self-guided tour of our history, architecture and culture". City of Lewiston, Maine. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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