Career
He designed many private and municipal buildings, including the Penobscot County Courthouse and at least seven schools. His masterpieces are probably the Nichols Block and Columbia Building (both 1892), in which he used a Romanesque Revival style with exuberant patterned brickwork, and the Graham Building of 1911, among the most prominent landmarks in downtown Bangor. Mansur"s largest number of commissions came following the Great Fire of 1911, which destroyed half of the city"s commercial district (and a number of his own buildings).
At least eleven Mansur-designed buildings are preserved on the National Register of Historic Places, many in Bangor"s Great Fire of 1911 Historic District.
Mansur"s brother George I. Mansur was also an architect. He was also a prominent Mason.
List of Mansur-designed buildings (all in Bangor, Maine):
Nichols Block, Exchange Saint (1892)
Columbia Building, Corner Hammond Saint and Columbia Saint (1892)
Morse & Company Office Building (1895)
Unitarian Church Vestry (later Penobscot Theatre Company)
Bangor Hose House Number.
5, State Saint (now Fire Museum)
Bangor Fire Engine House Number.
6, Central Saint
Penobscot County Courthouse, Hammond Saint
Wellman Commons, Bangor Theological Seminary
Superintendent"s House, Bangor Water Works
Saint Mary"s School, State Saint
Valentine School, Union Saint
Larkin Saint School, Larkin Saint
Hannibal Hamlin School, Union Saint (demolished)
Central Building, Central Saint (1912)
Graham Building (Bangor, Maine), Corner State and Harlow Saint (1912)
Stetson Block, Exchange Saint (1911)
Stearns Block, Exchange Saint (1911)
Hall Block, Exchange Saint (1911).
