“It was a time of optimism in Boothbay Harbor, and the opera house was an indicator of both the town’s prosperity and the great expectations for its future,” wrote Boothbay region historian Barbara Rumsey in the July 8, 1999, edition of the Boothbay Register. Fassett, to design a meeting hall and multifunction space on Townsend Avenue, now known as the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor. It was in this forward-thinking environment that the local chapter of the Knights of Pythias engaged the prominent Portland architect Francis H. Sardine and lobster canneries provided hundreds of new jobs, and summer “rusticators” arrived each season in droves to enjoy the cool Maine air on the porches of their cottages. In Boothbay Harbor, the outlook that year was positive. While the impacts of the economic meltdown that began in 1893 were still being felt across much of the country, industrialism was booming, and thanks to the Progressive movement, many workers were obligated to work fewer hours and therefore had more leisure time. The year 1894 ushered in an era of considerable change in America.
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