Graham Building (Bangor, Maine)

Graham was largely responsible for managing Bangor's turn-of-the-century transition from lumber port to light industrial center through the provision of cheap electricity from dams across the Union River in Ellsworth, Maine and the Penobscot River at Veazie, Maine.

Bangor was the first city in New England (and one of the first in the United States) with an electric street railroad system, thanks to an earlier local businessman, Francis Clergue, who went on to build one of North America's greatest hydro-power centers at Sault Ste.

[1] The Graham Building was one of the first to be commissioned and finished following the disastrous Great Fire of 1911 which destroyed half of Bangor's commercial district.

It stands six stories tall, and is built of yellow pressed brick with a metal cornice.

The first story once housed the Post Office Pharmacy, and is currently occupied by a curated retail store, The Willie Wags, while the Central Street entrance is housed by 98 Wake N' Shake.