ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH MORTUARY CHAPEL
Crypt — Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine
Status: Historic site · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/st-patricks-church-mortuary-chapel-lewiston-maine/

Former priest’s mortuary chapel within a deconsecrated church complex now used for events.

St. Patrick’s Church Mortuary Chapel is a crypt in Lewiston, Maine. Former priest’s mortuary chapel within a deconsecrated church complex now used for events. The operator’s history states Monsignor Thomas Wallace’s remains were placed beneath St. Patrick’s chapel in 1910 and returned to Mt. Hope Cemetery after deconsecration in 2009. The church and chapel reopened as an event venue in 2016.

St. Patrick's is the spired — the '220 feet' that's the height's reach, the 'second tallest' that's the Maine's rank. The 'Healy blessed' is the groundbreaking — the 'first Black bishop' that's the consecrator's secret, the '1887' that's the cornerstone's year. The 'crypt' is the emptied — the 'Wallace' that's the founder's name, the 'moved' that's the body's '07 fate.
The 'stained glass sold' is the stripped — the 'Munich' that's the windows' maker, the 'Japan' that's the buyer's land. The 'hotel' is the converted — the 'crypt room' that's the novelty's form, the 'world's first' that's the claim's rank. St. Patrick's is the evented — the 'Agora Grand' that's the venue's name, the 'weddings' that's the nave's new work.
The file keeps St. Patrick's: the spired church, the groundbreaking bishop, the emptied crypt, and the evented nave.
St. Patrick's is the archive's Maine file — the church that became a venue.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
St. Patrick's is the archive's Maine file — the crypt that became a hotel room.
A church keeps its spire — the file's suggestion being that St. Patrick's hold is the converted: the 'Healy' that's the blessing's secret, the 'crypt' that's the burial's second use, and the 'weddings' that's the nave's afterlife.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The operator’s history states Monsignor Thomas Wallace’s remains were placed beneath St. Patrick’s chapel in 1910 and returned to Mt. Hope Cemetery after deconsecration in 2009. The church and chapel reopened as an event venue in 2016. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'History of church and chapel'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· History of church and chapel — Inn at the Agora
  https://www.innattheagora.com/history

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