Oakfield Grange, # 414, Oakfield, 1906-1956

Over the years the town of Oakfield has slowly lost both its agricultural economy and significance as a rail center, but the Oakfield Grange continues to offer a tangible link to this Southern Aroostook town?s historical development during the late 19th and 20th century. This large structure, with its decorative hall and stage and ample dining facilities, was built by the local members of the Patron?s of Husbandry during a period that witnessed a marked increase in farming activities in the County and a rapid increase in the town?s economic development.

Col. Gabriel Johonnot House

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1804-1811

Local Level of Significance

The Col. Gabriel Johonnot House in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine is a ca. 1804-1811, two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick house. The building is significant under Criterion C for its architectural type, period, and method of construction. The faade is laid in Flemish bond while the sides and rear are common bond. The building has a fanlight over the center entry, and the window above on the second floor has an arched head.

Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1937-1975

Local Level of Significance

The Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial in Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine, was designed by Stanley S. Merrill and built by Louis Malo and Sons in 1937. The Tudor Style building is significant under Criterion C for its architectural style. It is a good example of the style which is relatively rare in Greene and across Maine.

Winter Harbor School

Criterion A: Education, Entertainment/Recreation

Period of Significance: 1878-1962

Local Level of Significance

The Winter Harbor Schoolhouse in Hancock County, Maine is a two story, Italianate, gable front, wood frame building located in the center of the village. It is locally significant under Criterion A in the areas of education and entertainment/recreation. The building was built in 1877 as the third school in the Village of Winter Harbor which was then part of the town of Gouldsboro. The previous two schools in the village had burned.

Goodridge Corner School

Criterion A: Education

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1868-1945

Local Level of Significance

The Goodridge Corner School in Industry, Franklin County, Maine is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of West Mills Road and Industry Road. The gable front vernacular schoolhouse is significant at the local level under Criterion A for its association with patterns of rural education and under Criterion C for its distinctive architectural characteristics of a one room rural schoolhouse.

Franklin Grange #124

Criterion A: Social History, Entertainment/Recreation,

Period of Significance: 1892-1975

Local Level of Significance

The former Franklin Grange #124 building is a vernacular two-story, gable front wood frame building that has been and continues to be an important social and community center in Woodstock, Oxford County, Maine. It was built in 1892 by members of the local Grange which had been established on March 11, 1875. They met in other buildings until they built the current Grange building.

Western Cemetery

Criterion C: Landscape Architecture

Period of Significance: 1811-1914

Local Level of Significance

Western Cemetery in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine is locally significant under Criterion C for landscape architecture. It reflects an evolving approach to cemetery design in the nineteenth century.

McCurdy Smokehouse (Additional Documentation)

Criterion A: Industry

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1907-1941

National Level of Significance

The McCurdy Smokehouse is significant at the national level under Criterion A (Industry) for its association with the historically significant fishing industry in the Downeast region of Maine, and as the last surviving American Complex representing the traditional, vernacular method of smoking herring for preservation.

Averill - Philbrick House

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1765, ca. 1780, ca. 1820

Local Level of Significance

The Averill-Philbrick House in Alna, Lincoln County, Maine is eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion C for architecture. The original ca. 1765 three-quarter gambrel-roof cape and the ca. 1820 Federal Style addition are good examples of their type, period, and method of construction.

Crosby Lodge

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1887, 1893

Local Level of Significance

Crosby Lodge is located in the summer community of Hancock Point in the Town and County of Hancock, Maine. The summer cottage was built in 1887 in a John Calvin Stevens design for Lucilius and Eliza Emery of Ellsworth. The main house and Annex are architecturally significant, in a local context, under Criterion C for their Shingle Style design. The design is a good example of Stevens' important early Shingle Style work which created a national reputation for him.

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