Troy Meeting House

The Troy Meeting House, also known as the Troy Union Church, is a historic church at 514 Bangor Road (Maine State Route 9) in Troy, Maine. Built in 1840, it is a fine example of transitional vernacular Greek Revival-Gothic Revival architecture, and an enduring symbol of the religious life of the community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1]

Troy Meeting House
Location514 Bangor Rd., Troy, Maine
Coordinates44°39′54″N 69°14′23″W
Area0.23 acres (0.093 ha)
Built1840 (1840)
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.11000818[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 18, 2011

Description and history

The Troy Meeting House is located in a small crossroads hamlet known as Troy Corner, formed by the junction of Bangor Road (the major east-west route through Troy) and Ward Hill and Bagley Hill Roads. It is set a short way east of this junction, on the south side of Bangor Road, in a small open lot now surrounded by forest. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. It has a timber frame built out of hand-hewn members, and was built using traditional scribe-rule methods. The building corners have pilasters with lancet-arched paneling, which rise to a simple entablature. The front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances flanking a central sash window. The entrances are topped by lancet-arched trim and flanked by paneled pilasters similar to those on the building corners. A single-stage square tower rises above, with rectangular louvered openings and a pinnacles at the corners above.[2]

The church was built in 1840 as a non-denominational "union" church, available for use by any local denomination. It was probably built by members of the Troy Meeting House Society, and has served the community as a religious meeting place since then, except for a seven-year period of closure during World War II. It is the community's oldest church, and its only 19th-century church building still in ecclesiastical use.[2]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Mitchell, Christi (2011). NRHP nomination for Troy Meeting House; available by request from the Maine Historic Preservation Commission
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.