You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please verify your current subsription or subscribe.
Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more.
Article link sent!
An error has occurred. Please try again.
With a Lewiston Sun Journal subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month.
It looks like you do not have an active subscription connected to this login. You can subscribe below, or to connect your existing subscription, go to myAccount.
An excavator from Longchamps & Sons Inc. demolishes the former Murray/Holman house Tuesday at the corner of Ware and College streets in Lewiston. Bates College purchased it many years ago and used it for various things, including storing props for its theater. Area homeowners in the the Mountain Avenue Neighborhood Association met with Geoff Swift, vice president for finance and administration at Bates, earlier this year and were told the college decided to demolish the house across from Page Hall. He said the main reasons were that the interior was in very bad shape and even if they were to restore it, it’s a one-family home and no one at Bates has a family large enough to justify buying or renting it. And for a home that big, the grounds are too small for a large family, in their opinion. The plan is to raze it then landscape the lot. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Chris Fleming of Longchamps & Sons Inc. sprays water to help keep dust particles down during Tuesday’s demolition of the former Murray/Holman house at the corner of Ware and College streets in Lewiston. Bates College purchased it many years ago and used it for various things, including storing props for its theater. Area homeowners in the the Mountain Avenue Neighborhood Association met with Geoff Swift, vice president for finance and administration at Bates, earlier this year and were told the college decided to demolish the house across from Page Hall. He said the main reasons were that the interior was in very bad shape and even if they were to restore it, it’s a one-family home and no one at Bates has a family large enough to justify buying or renting it. And for a home that big, the grounds are too small for a large family, in their opinion. The plan is to raze it then landscape the lot. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Comments are no longer available on this story