Christ Church is a historic non-denominational church on Christ Church Road in the Dark Harbor district of
Islesboro, Maine
Islesboro is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States, comprising Islesboro Island and several smaller islands. The population was 583 at the 2020 census. It has a summer colony accessible by state ferry service from Lincolnville Beach thr ...
, U.S.A. Since its construction in 1901-02, it has been used for
Episcopal
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services.
The building, a well-kept example of Maine's coastal summer churches of the turn of the 20th century, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1992.
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Description and history
Christ Church is located in southern Islesboro, an island community in Penobscot Bay
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in central Maine
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, U.S.A. It is set overlooking Pendleton Point Road, the major north-south route on the narrow island, which runs to the east of the building. It is a roughly cruciform structure, its long axis oriented north-south, and is finished in wooden shingles and stucco, with a rubblestone foundation. It is reached from Christ Church Road by a walkway lined by stone walls that passes over an arched stone bridge. The south-facing main facade has a gabled entrance porch supported by square posts with decorative brackets, with a half-timbered gable. The porch eaves have exposed rafter ends, and the porch is flanked by paired diamond-pane windows. Above the porch in the main gable is a grouping of four similar windows. The eastern facade, on the downhill side of the sloped site, has an exposed basement with stone buttresses and arched louvered openings.Boston
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architect Francis R. Allen, was built as a major expansion of that structure in 1901-02.[ The church is governed by an independent board of trustees, and is formally "open to all".
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See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Waldo County, Maine
References
External links
Christ Church Dark Harbor web site
{{National Register of Historic Places
Churches in Waldo County, Maine
Episcopal church buildings in Maine
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Churches completed in 1901
20th-century Episcopal church buildings
Shingle Style church buildings
National Register of Historic Places in Waldo County, Maine
Shingle Style architecture in Maine