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Consultant reviews Bangor’s 1911 Great Fire and local architectural styles at HPC training
Summary
Consultant Mike Pullen led an illustrated training for the commission on the Great Fire of 1911, the city’s post‑fire rebuilding and a survey of local house styles from colonial/federal to Craftsman, emphasizing character‑defining features relevant to review decisions.
Consultant Mike Pullen gave a slide‑illustrated training March 12 for the Historic Preservation Commission on the Great Fire of April 30, 1911, the ensuing rebuilding period, and the spectrum of residential architectural styles found in Bangor.
Pullen framed the session with the fire’s scope—“At 04:00 on Sunday, 04/30/1911, the fire broke out in a large hay shed,” he said—and described how the disaster destroyed large parts of the downtown, triggering reconstruction by firms such as Peabody & Stearns and a shift from wood framing to more…
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