Editing Bangor, Maine (section)

==Arts and culture==

===Events===
* One of the country's oldest fairs, the Bangor [[State fair]] has occurred annually for more than 150 years. Beginning on the last Friday of July, it features agricultural exhibits, rides, and live performances.
* The annual [[KahBang Music and Art Festival]] (now defunct).
* The annual [[American Folk Festival]] (now defunct).

===Venues===
* The [[Cross Insurance Center]] (which replaced the [[Bangor Auditorium]] in 2013)
* [[Maine Savings Amphitheater]]

===Cultural institutions===
[[File:BangorPublicLibraryMainEntrance.jpg|thumb|[[Bangor Public Library]] main entrance]]
* The [[University of Maine Museum of Art]] and the [[Maine Discovery Museum]], a major children's museum was founded in 2001 in the former Freese's Department Store.
* The [[Bangor Symphony Orchestra]].
* The [[Penobscot Theatre Company]]
* The [[Collins Center for the Arts]]

===Architecture===

[[File:Stephenking house.JPG|thumb|[[Stephen King]]'s 1858 house]]
Many buildings and monuments are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Penobscot County, Maine|National Register of Historic Places]]. The city has also had a municipal Historic Preservation Commission since the early 1980s.<ref name='Thompson'>Deborah Thompson, ''Bangor, Maine, 1769–1914: An Architectural History'' (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1988)</ref> Bangor has many [[Greek Revival]]. [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]], and [[Colonial Revival]] houses. Some notable architecture:
* The [[Thomas Hill Standpipe]], a [[shingle style]] structure.
* The [[Hammond Street Congregation Church]].
* The [[St. John's Catholic Church (Bangor, Maine)|St. John's Catholic Church]].
* The Bangor House Hotel, now converted to apartments, is the only survivor among a series of "Palace Hotels" designed by Boston architect [[Isaiah Rogers]], which were the first of their kind in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=bangorinfo.com: Bangor In Focus: Bangor House|url=http://bangorinfo.com/Focus/focus_bangor_house.html|access-date=December 30, 2022|website=bangorinfo.com}}</ref>
* The country's second oldest [[rural cemetery|garden cemetery]] is the [[Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)|Mount Hope Cemetery]], designed by [[Charles G. Bryant]].<ref name='Thompson'/>
* [[Richard Upjohn]], British-born architect and early promoter of the [[Gothic Revival]] style, received some of his first commissions in Bangor, including the Isaac Farrar House (1833), Samuel Farrar House (1836), Thomas A. Hill House (presently owned by the Bangor Historical Society), and St. John's Church (Episcopal, 1836–1839).
* [[Bangor Public Library]] by [[Peabody and Stearns]].
* The Eastern Maine Insane Hospital, now [[Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center]], by [[John Calvin Stevens]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bangor in Focus: Bangor Mental Health Institute|url=http://bangorinfo.com/Focus/focus_bmhi.html|access-date=December 30, 2022|website=bangorinfo.com}}</ref>
* The William Arnold House of 1856, an [[Italianate]] style mansion and home to author [[Stephen King]]. Its wrought-iron fence with bat and spider web motif is King's own addition.<ref name='Thompson'/>

===Public art and monuments===
[[File:Mthope.JPG|thumb|[[Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)|Mount Hope Cemetery]]]]
The bow-plate of the battleship [[USS Maine (ACR-1)|USS ''Maine'']], whose destruction in [[Havana, Cuba]], presaged the start of the [[Spanish–American War]], survives on a granite memorial by Charles Eugene Tefft in Davenport Park.

Bangor has a large fiberglass-over-metal statue of mythical lumberman [[Paul Bunyan]] by Normand Martin (1959).

There are three large bronze statues in downtown Bangor by sculptor [[Charles Tefft|Charles Eugene Tefft]] of Brewer, including the Luther H. Peirce Memorial, commemorating the Penobscot River Log-Drivers; a statue of [[Hannibal Hamlin]] at Kenduskeag Mall; and an image of "Lady Victory" at Norumbega Parkway.

The abstract aluminum sculpture "Continuity of Community" (1969) on the Bangor Waterfront, formerly in West Market Square, is by the [[Castine, Maine|Castine]] sculptor Clark Battle Fitz-Gerald.

The U.S. Post Office in Bangor contains [[Yvonne Jacquette]]'s 1980 three-part mural "Autumn Expansion".

A 1962 bronze commemorating the [[2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment]] by [[Wisconsin]] sculptor Owen Vernon Shaffer stands at the entrance to [[Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)|Mount Hope Cemetery]].

A memorial has been placed by Bangor [[City Council]] and members of the [[LGBT]] community along the Kenduskeag Stream honoring the memory of [[Charlie Howard (murder victim)|Charlie Howard]] as the victim of a [[hate crime]]. In 1984 he was beaten and thrown off Bangor's State Street Bridge by three young men in a what would become a high-profile example of [[violence against LGBT people]].<ref name="geocities.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/katsuyo_chan04/roseforcharlie.html|title=roseforcharlie|date=October 19, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019031202/http://www.geocities.com/katsuyo_chan04/roseforcharlie.html|archive-date=October 19, 2007}}</ref> The murder of Charlie Howard inspired the formation of The Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance, which later became [[EqualityMaine]].<ref name="Love2006">{{cite book|last=Love|first=Barbara J.|title=Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975|url=https://archive.org/details/feministswhochan00love|url-access=registration|access-date=April 10, 2011|year=2006|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03189-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/feministswhochan00love/page/109 109]}}</ref> In May 2011, vandals spray-painted graffiti and an anti-gay slur on the memorial. Family and friends cleaned it up and rededicated it.<ref name="365gay.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.365gay.com/news/community-rededicates-vandalized-gay-memorial-in-maine/ |title=365gay.com |access-date=October 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527095926/http://www.365gay.com/news/community-rededicates-vandalized-gay-memorial-in-maine/ |archive-date=May 27, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>