DOWN EAST NOTES
David Carkhuff in the Daily Sun has a list of churches that have been converted to other uses in Portland: Grace restaurant behind City Hall, formerly the Chestnut Street Methodist Church; the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Gray Street, formerly St. Dominic's Catholic Church; and the St. Lawrence Art and Community Center on Munjoy Hill, formerly St. Lawrence Church. . . The building for what is now the Children's Museum of Maine was built as a church and renovated in the 1920s by famous architect John Calvin Stevens to house the chamber of commerce, according to local preservation official Scott Hanson. . . A building on Congress Street that houses Coffee by Design "at its core is a mid-19th century church" . . . And now the Payson Park Evangelical Free church is headed to become condos.


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