”In 1889 the beautiful building known as ‘The Ware Parlors’ was erected, furnished and presented to the society through the munificence of Madame Ware. This building was dedicated January 14, 1890. The principal address was by Pastor Seward and there were congratulatory addresses by other pastors. For Sunday school work, committee meetings, the social and kindred functions of the society and church the Ware Parlors have been constantly and greatly useful. Mrs. Ware gave the building without restriction as to its use, assured that there would be ‘the strictest observance of propriety in determining the right and expedient uses to which it should be put.’Madame Ware had also, in 1881, made to the society a permanent loan, practically an outright gift, of ‘the sweet voiced organ’ by which the church services have been so enriched, and ‘for a term of years’ the fine residence by the Park, now owned by one of her sons, Mr. Edward Ware, was granted to the pastor, rent free. It was appropriate that ‘a very fine portrait of Madame Ware, in a heavy rich frame,’ and tablet recording the gift of the building were placed in the Ware Parlors before its dedication, in recognition of all that she had been and had done for the society.”

Reference Data:

The Centennial History of Waterville, Kennebee County, Maine, by Edwin Carey Whittmore, 1902, page 256