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| | Preservation Online: Today's News Archives: Freeport, Maine's 1849 Town Hall Becomes a Meeting House Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Over the course of its 157-year history, Freeport, Maine's town hall served as a polling place, basketball venue, dance hall, playhouse, community meeting room, and even a jail. |
 | | The town sold the building in 1959 to the Eastland Shoe factory, which made numerous additions and nearly obscured its original features. |
 | | The hotel's owners, who opened a 99-room inn next door to the town hall last year, relied on historical photos to restore the exterior to its original appearance, while modernizing the interior for meetings, weddings, and other functions. |
| www.nationaltrust.org /magazine/archives/arc_news_2006/051806p.htm (364 words) |
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