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If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 689-2896 and leave a voicemail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be put into a drawing for a $25 gift card courtesy of Hannaford Supermarkets.

Mystery Photo for Oct. 5, 2025. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Mystery Photo for Sept. 28, 2025. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

We had several dozen people correctly identify the front entrance of the former St. Louis Church at the corner of 3rd and Dunn streets in Auburn. Many noted they went to church, were baptized, or married there. Masses began in the basement in 1902. The cornerstone was laid in 1915, starting the construction of the upper church. The last mass was held in August 2013, when the church closed due to structural issues, and was sold to investors. The four bells were removed and placed in a specially designed clock tower at Anniversary Park near the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge. In a random drawing from all the correct entries, Leon Demers, of Auburn, was picked as the winner of a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...