What's the Story with
Franklin Schoodic Hall?

Coastal Maine is peppered with century-old civic halls of local historical import fighting for their lives. Of the over 120 civic halls, granges, and other fraternal organization buildings in Hancock and Washington counties identified recently by two nonprofits, Greenhorns and Maine Preservation, many are in serious disrepair or in immediate peril. This is the story of one such structure, a 109-year-old, two-story Grange hall painted in trademark lemon chiffon located in Franklin, Maine and the efforts undertaken to preserve it for continued usefulness and benefit to the community.

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View from the second floor's main room toward the doorways to the main stairs and anteroom.

The second floor stage and some of the podiums used in the past for Grange functions.

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At the top of the main stairs. The window directly facing the camera looks out onto Route 182.

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What's the Story with Franklin Schoodic Hall?

View from the second floor's main room toward the doorways to the main stairs and anteroom.

The second floor stage and some of the podiums used in the past for Grange functions.

At the top of the main stairs. The window directly facing the camera looks out onto Route 182.

The south-facing wall on the first floor.

What's the Story with
Franklin Schoodic Hall?