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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 March 1, 2026. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Mystery Photo for Feb. 22, 2026. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

We only had a handful of people correctly identify the large stained-glass window at the former St. Patrick’s Church, now the Agora Grand Event Center, on Bates Street in Lewiston. In a random drawing from all the correct entries, Jan Barrett of Auburn was picked as the winner of a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card. She had no trouble identifying the photo because she was instrumental in the transition of the former church into a bed and breakfast and event center. When contacted about winning, she recalled watching local stained-glass artist Jim Nutting of Maine Art Glass Studio in Lisbon refurbish the piece of art and history.

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...

Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now...

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