Wilfred E. Mansur

Wilfred E. Mansur (1855–1921) was the most prominent architect in late 19th and early 20th century Bangor, Maine.

Life and career He designed many private and municipal buildings, including the Penobscot County Courthouse and at least seven schools. His masterpieces are probably the Nichols Block and Columbia Building (both 1892), in which he used a Romanesque Revival style with exuberant patterned brickwork, and the Graham Building of 1911, among the most prominent landmarks in downtown Bangor. Mansur's largest number of commissions came following the Great Fire of 1911, which destroyed half of the city's commercial district (and a number of his own buildings). At least eleven Mansur-designed buildings are preserved on the National Register of Historic Places, many in Bangor's Great Fire of 1911 Historic District. thumb

Personal life Mansur's brother George I. Mansur was also an architect. After working in his brother's office for many years, George I. Mansur succeeded to the practice after his death.

Mansur was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the Maine Society of Architects. He was also a prominent Mason.

Mansur married in 1892, to Charlotte Elizabeth Brown of Bangor.

Architectural works Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine (1882, burned 1911) Green Mountain House, Acadia National Park, Maine (1883, burned 1884) Green Mountain House, Acadia National Park, Maine (1885, demolished 1896) Howes Block, Belfast, Maine (1885) I. O. O. F. Building, Old Town, Maine (1887) Brewer High School (former), Brewer, Maine (1888, demolished) I. O. O. F. Building, Belfast, Maine (1888) Aroostook County Jail, Houlton, Maine (1889–90, NRHP 1990) First Congregational Church, Brewer, Maine (1889) Moosehead Inn, Greenville, Maine (1889, burned 1912) House for Frederic H. Parkhurst, Bangor, Maine (1890) Y. M. C. A. Building, Bangor, Maine (1890–91, demolished) Orono Town Hall, Orono, Maine (1891–92, demolished) Columbia Building, Bangor, Maine (1892–93) House for Frederic H. Appleton, Bangor, Maine (1892–93) House for Francis B. Denio, Bangor, Maine (1892–93) Nichols Block, Bangor, Maine (1892) Superintendent's house, Bangor Waterworks, Bangor, Maine (1892, demolished 2017) Shaw Block, Greenville, Maine (1893) Aroostook County Courthouse, Caribou, Maine (1895) Addition to the Aroostook County Courthouse, Houlton, Maine (1895, NRHP 1990) Gymnasium, Bangor Theological Seminary (former), Bangor, Maine (1895) Morse & Company Office Building, Bangor, Maine (1895, NRHP 1973) Palm Street School, Bangor, Maine (1895, demolished) Bangor Hose House No. 5 (former), Bangor, Maine (1897, NRHP 1997) Moody Memorial Chapel, Good Will-Hinckley, Fairfield, Maine (1897) Niben Club, Pushaw Lake, Orono, Maine (1897, demolished) Surgical Building, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine (1898–99) Eastport Primary School (former), Eastport, Maine (1899) Morse-Oliver Building, Bangor, Maine (1899, burned 1911) Lodge, Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine (1900, NRHP 1974) Bangor Fire Engine House No. 6 (former), Bangor, Maine (1902, NRHP 1988) Penobscot County Courthouse, Bangor, Maine (1902–05) Addition to house for William M. Shaw, Greenville, Maine (1905, NRHP 2013) Mansur Block, Houlton, Maine (1905–06) M. G. Shaw Lumber Company Office, Greenville, Maine (1906, demolished) Graham Building, Bangor, Maine (1911) Preble Hall, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine (1920–21)

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