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As the 90-year-old United Baptist Church in Lewiston is prepared for demolition, longtime church member Inez Buck of Auburn shared memories of a sense of fellowship and special occasions celebrated there.
In 1951, she married Roy Buck, who was the 100th baby to be dedicated in 1922 into what was then called the Cradle Roll.
Together, the Bucks raised four children in the church.” They all went to Sunday School with the neighborhood kids. It was a wonderful place to bring up children. It was a lifestyle of fellowship and good times,” said Buck, who along with her husband was a deacon. She also served as president of the church’s Women’s Society.
The church’s first ecumenical wedding was performed in 1974, when Patricia Buck married Patrick Defilipp, a Catholic, with Rev. John Schroder assisted by a priest from St. Joseph’s Church, also in Lewiston.
Buck remembers a young Bates college student who received permission to practice on the church organ. The student, Peter J. Gomes, is now a well-known
preacher and theologian at Harvard University’s Divinity School.
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- The United Baptist Church at the corner of Bates and Main Streets a Lewiston landmark for almost 90 years is prepared for demolition by a crew from St Laurent and Sons Excavation. The demolition set to start on February 1.
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- The outer structure can be seen through an opening in one of the windows of the United Baptist Church in Lewiston after the stained glass windows were removed before the building is demolished.
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- A print of the iconic Praying Hands by the 15th century German artist Albrecht Durer and a hymnal lay among some of the items on the floor at the church.
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- Dave Hart left, and Scott Geoffroy from St Laurent and Sons Excavation working on the United Baptist Church demolition project arrange some of the pews in the sanctuary.
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- A View of the United Baptist Church sanctuary from the balcony.
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- Openings in a sanctuary window after the removal of the stained glass before United Baptist Church building is demolished
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- Openings in the sanctuary windows after the removal of the stained glass before the church is demolished
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