Belfast City Building, Belfast, Maine B141

Belfast City Building, Belfast, Maine B141

"Belfast City Building, Belfast, Maine B141" 1944, Belfast, Maine, City, Building "Memorial Hall, Church Street, [built in] 1890, Brigham & Spofford of Boston, architects, now Belfast City Hall. Civil War monument in front of the building." --Earle Shettleworth, 2011 In this view one can see Memorial Hall (City Hall) on the right and the Waldo County Court House in the center. CITY HALL In 1889, the city council ordered that a building be built on the present Church Street site which would contain a Memorial Hall for the Thomas H. Marshall Post No. 42 of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) together with rooms and offices for the city and for the fire department. The price for land and building was not to exceed $23,000.00. $2500.00 of the cost was to be contributed by the Post. The building is of brick and granite and accommodates the fire department in the basement, city offices on the first floor and the Memorial Hall on the second floor (occupied by the Thomas H. Marshall Post, The Sons of Veterans and the Ladies' Relief Corps). The first meeting of the city government took place September 4, 1890. On May 30, 1924, as their numbers were dwindling, the veterans dedicated a granite marker in front of the building with the inscription: “To The Boys of 1861 – 1865.” COURT HOUSE: In 1850, the county commissioners purchase the land at the corner of Church & Market Streets as a site for the new county court house. Plans by B. S. Dean of Bangor and Edwin Lee Browne , architect of Boston were accepted and a contract for the proposed edifice was awarded to Edward Hawkes of Belfast in the amount of $14,000.00. The building was completed in 1853. On December 31st all public records were moved to the new building. On the first Tuesday of January 1854, a term of the Supreme Court, presided over by Judge Rice, was held in the new courtroom. A belfry and bell were added in 1856