Waterville Opera House and City Hall

The Waterville Opera House and City Hall is a historic civic building at Castonguay Square in downtown . Built at the turn of the 20th century, it is one of a small number of multifunction civic buildings, housing both a live performance venue and municipal facilities, functions it continues to perform today.
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: theater and former town hall in Waterville, Maine, United States
  • Also known as: Waterville Opera House
  • Address: 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME 04901

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Waterville Public Library and First Baptist Church.

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is the public library serving , . is situated 910 feet northwest of Waterville Opera House and City Hall.

Church
Photo: Hugh Manatee, Public domain.
The is a historic church at 1 Park Street in . Built in 1826, it is the city's oldest standing public building. It was renovated in 1875 to a design by Francis H. is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Waterville Opera House and City Hall.

Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a former outpost on the banks of the , just above its mouth at the Kennebec River, in , . Originally built as a wooden palisaded fort in 1754, during the French and Indian War, only a single blockhouse survives. is situated 3,800 feet south of Waterville Opera House and City Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterville and Waterville Main Street Historic District.

is a small city on the Kennebec River, home to Colby College. Because of its location along a former migration corridor between Quebec and New England, Franco-American culture is evident here.

Neighborhood
The encompasses the best-preserved portions of the historical commercial downtown area of . Developed most intensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this area was the center of commerce for Waterville and the surrounding rural communities.

is a town in the region of , along the Kennebec River across from .

Waterville Opera House and City Hall

Latitude
44.54999° or 44° 33′ north
Longitude
-69.62898° or 69° 37′ 44″ west
Open location code
87PGG9XC+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1408190240
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Wiki­data ID
Q27957570
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