SOLON — Officials are trying to determine why someone over the course of several weeks has taken many of the rocks that constitute a stone wall that surrounds the historic South Solon Meeting House.

As recently as Saturday someone took several of the rocks from the wall. At least eight different sections of the wall have had rocks taken from them, according to information posted to the town’s website.

A caretaker had been replacing some of the rocks, thinking it was an incidental matter before realizing it was a more coordinated effort to take the stones.

“Like most local small not-for-profit organizations, funding is hard to come by for such a project to repair and rebuild the stone wall,” according to a statement on the website.

Andy Davis, a member of the meeting house’s board of trustees, declined to comment on the matter.

The landmark Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1842 as a church and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It’s now used largely for community functions.

It is referred to as the Sistine Chapel of Maine for the fresco paintings depicting biblical subjects that cover the interior of the building. The paintings were done from 1952 to 1956 by artists associated with the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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