From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2007.1.109607
Belfast, Maine, Court House, Mr. Frisby 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
