Lewiston

The Osgood Building is an historic site at 129 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The building was built in 1893 and added to the National Historic Register in 1986.

Dr. Louis J. Martel House is a historic house at 122-124 Bartlett Street in Lewiston, Maine. The house was built in 1883 and added to the National... Historic Register in 1983.
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Savings Bank Block is an historic site at 215 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The block was built in 1870 and added to the National Historic Register in 1978.

Lewiston Public Library is a historic site at Park and Pine Streets in Lewiston, Maine. The Colonial Revival library building was constructed in 1902... by Coombs & Gibbs. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The original library located in Lewiston City Hall was known as the Manufacturers and Mechanics Library. The library was formed January 26, 1861 and existed until the first Lewiston City Hall burned on January 7th, 1890. The current library still has several volumes that have the Manufacturers and Mechanics library stamps in them. In 1902 Andrew Carnegie donated $60,000 for a new granite building with the understanding that the city would fund staff, books, and materials. Granite was acquired from North Jay and Norridgewock to be used for the construction. The vestibule was modeled after the Greek design with columns 18 feet high and 25 inches in circumference. Woodwork of fine oak is found on the fireplace mantels and oak pillars. The building was significantly renovated in 1996, including moving the main entrance one block to the west.
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Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor, known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Prior to... Grey's Anatomy he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has also appeared in several films, including Sweet Home Alabama, Made of Honor, Valentine's Day, Flypaper, Freedom Writers, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Dempsey was born in Lewiston, Maine, and grew up in Buckfield, Maine. His mother, Amanda M. , was a school secretary, and his father, William A. Dempsey, was an insurance salesman. He attended Buckfield High School and St. Dominic Regional High School. He was an adept juggler, tying for second in a national juggling competition. He was also an accomplished skier and while in high school won the Maine state slalom championship. As a child, Dempsey attended Camp Wekeela located in Hartford, Maine. Dempsey was diagnosed with dyslexia at age twelve. He told Barbara Walters on her 2008 Oscar special that he thinks dyslexia "made him what he is today." “It’s given me a perspective of — you have to keep working,” Dempsey told Walters.
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Rene Rancourt is a professional singer. He has sung the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins home hockey... games for 35 years. Rancourt is such a part of the Bruins' establishment that he is the only person mentioned by name in the Dropkick Murphys' song: "Time to Go". Rancourt was born in 1939 in Lewiston, Maine. He first began singing the anthem in Boston at Fenway Park. He took part in an opera singing audition on the radio and was heard by John Kiley, long-time organist at both Fenway and the Boston Garden. Rancourt sang before Game Six of the World Series in 1975 when singer Kate Smith cancelled her appearance. Rancourt's ambition was to become an opera singer. The strength of his trained voice overcame the acoustic shortcomings of the old Boston Garden. In 1976, he began singing regularly for Bruins games. Rancourt's signature fist-pump at the end of the anthem was modeled after the Stump Pump of former Bruin, Randy Burridge, whom Rancourt admired. Rancourt also salutes at the end of the anthem. The salute is for an elderly woman who used to watch the Bruins only to see Rene sing the anthem then turn off the TV.
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Julie Berry is a former contestant on the reality television show Survivor: Vanuatu.

Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor, known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Prior to... Grey's Anatomy he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has also appeared in several films, including Sweet Home Alabama, Made of Honor, Valentine's Day, Flypaper, Freedom Writers, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Dempsey was born in Lewiston, Maine, and grew up in Buckfield, Maine. His mother, Amanda M. , was a school secretary, and his father, William A. Dempsey, was an insurance salesman. He attended Buckfield High School and St. Dominic Regional High School. He was an adept juggler, tying for second in a national juggling competition. He was also an accomplished skier and while in high school won the Maine state slalom championship. As a child, Dempsey attended Camp Wekeela located in Hartford, Maine. Dempsey was diagnosed with dyslexia at age twelve. He told Barbara Walters on her 2008 Oscar special that he thinks dyslexia "made him what he is today." “It’s given me a perspective of — you have to keep working,” Dempsey told Walters.
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Clarence White was a guitar player for Nashville West, The Byrds, Muleskinner, and the Kentucky Colonels. His parents were Acadians from New... Brunswick, Canada. The father, Eric LeBlanc, Sr., played fiddle, guitar, banjo and harmonica, and his children, Roland, Eric Jr., Joanne and Clarence took up music at a young age. Clarence Joseph LeBlanc was born on June 7, 1944 in Lewiston, Maine. In 1954 the family followed relatives to Burbank, California from Madawaska, Maine. That year, the White brothers formed a band called the Three Little Country Boys. They soon secured a regular spot on a local radio program, and attracted the interest of country star, Joe Maphis. In 1958 the band cut their first single, and had become well enough known to land several appearances on the Andy Griffith Show. In late 1962, the Country Boys became the Kentucky Colonels. Despite their successes, the Colonels were having a harder time making a living playing bluegrass. The folk boom had been staggered by the British Invasion in 1964, but the death blow, ironically, was dealt in mid-1965 with the release of "Mr.
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Cynthia McFadden is an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who currently co-anchors Nightline and Primetime. Born in Lewiston, Maine, McFadden... graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1978. Afterwards, she received her Juris Doctorate degree from Columbia Law School in New York City in 1984. From 1984 to 1991, McFadden was the executive producer of Fred Friendly's Media and Society seminars based at Columbia, many of which were broadcast on PBS. She then joined the Courtroom Television Network as an anchor and producer in 1991, its inaugural year. After working there for several years, she joined ABC News in 1994 as the network's legal correspondent, covering amongst other subjects the OJ Simpson Trial. She became a correspondent for Primetime in 1996. McFadden became an anchor of Primetime in 2004 and, having previously substituted for Ted Koppel on several occasions, an anchor of Nightline on November 28, 2005, along with Martin Bashir and Terry Moran, following the long time anchor's final broadcast. The three tend to anchor in shifts, leading the show by themselves every third night.
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Julie Berry is a former contestant on the reality television show Survivor: Vanuatu.

JoAnn Willette is an American actress. Willette is best known for appearing in the role of Constance "Connie" Lubbock in the television series Just... the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990. She has also made appearances on a number of other shows including The Facts of Life, T.J. Hooker, Santa Barbara, Growing Pains, Melrose Place, Chicago Hope, Becker, ER, The Young and the Restless, My Sister Sam and Private Practice, and in movies such as Welcome to 18.
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Joe Harris was an actor.