But there’s a twist: before these elegant apartments stood here, a much larger complex filled the lot-until it was swallowed by a fire. Rising from those ashes, the Colonial Apartments marked a change in Bangor’s housing game. Unlike older tenements meant for workers, this was the new “it” place for the city’s middle and upper class. Many white-collar residents, sure, but also trailblazing single women or pairs of women-think independent widowed mothers and their grown daughters-carving out a space of their own, no longer just renting a room in someone else’s house. A building where women could live alone? In 1919, that was just as groundbreaking as indoor plumbing!
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