History
In 1911, the large wooden Bangor High building in Abbott Square burned down in the Great Fire of 1911. Its steel-framed, yellow-brick replacement was built in 1913 on Harlow Street, just across from its earlier location, from designs by the Boston architects Peabody and Stearns, who also designed the Bangor Public Library next door. The high school moved into its present building on outer Broadway, designed by Bangor architect Eaton Tarbell, in the late 1960s.
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