Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — Maine's Steepled Tenement House. [ARTICLE]

Maine's Steepled Tenement House.

There is a unique tenement house in Guilford, Maine. Years ago the old Universalist Church in that place Was abandoned as a place of worship and it fell Into the hands of several owners who converted it into a large dwelling house by the alteration simply- of the interior. Stairways were placed on the outside, leading to the upstair tenements, but beyond, these exterior additions the church retained all Its former appearances of a “meeting house,” and is known locally as "The Church.?’ TKe high steeple and its weather vane added little ornament and no usefulness to this rather odd dwelling house, but they continued to occupy this exalted if incongruous position, until a week ago, when the carpenters tore down the steeple, and this old landmark of “Hous Hill” lost, as |t were, its piety. First make up your- mind as to the validity of doing an action, then db it as soon as possible.