Maine GAR Hall

Item GAR-11119

Description

GAR Meeting Hall in Rockland, ME
Large image on card stock and measures (5 1/4 x 8 1/2).


The photo is of the interior of the old Edwin Libby (4th Maine Infantry, killed in the Wilderness) Post 16 of the GAR in Rockland, Maine.  The building stood at the corner of Limerock and Union Streets.  Today that corner is occupied by The Firsts Bank. In the photo the large portrait of Edwin Libby can be sen on the back wall.  That portrait along with the podium in the foreground and a number of the chairs in the background and several of the framed items shown on the walls are all part of the Civil War collection of the City of Rockland, Maine which is maintained by the Rockland Historical Society, of which I am a board member.
The room in the photo was still set up in that same manner as late as 1960 when a friend and I used to sweep and swab the decks and set up tables there in advance of the monthly meetings of the Ruth Mayhew tent of the Daughters of Civil War veterans (or some such name for the group).  The Hall itself was made by moving two smaller buildings together, thus creating an odd "step" in the middle of a room on each of the two floors due to the difference in height of the floor levels between the two buildings. 

Source: Captain David Sulin