Criterion A: Industry

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1832-1972

Local Level of Significance

The Biddeford/Saco Mills Historic District is significant for its association with development of the Biddeford/Saco region from a remote seventeenth-century maritime settlement to a major industrial center in the nineteenth century. Buildings that make up the district are representative of the industrial development that fueled growth and expansion of Biddeford and Saco in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1818, ca. 1875-80

Local Level of Significance

The Pilley House located in the small town of Brooks, Waldo County, Maine, was built in 1818 and was associated with a number of well-known local individuals. The longest association was with the Pilley family from 1863 to 2005.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1855-56

Local Level of Significance

Orr's Island Meeting House is located on the island of that name in Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine. The gable front building with minimal decoration or detail is significant at the local level under Criterion C for architecture as a good example of its type, period and method of construction. The building is a type employed by smaller congregations often in isolated locations and reflects modest rural church architecture of the mid-nineteenth century.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1745 - 1950

Local Level of Significance

The Kennebunk Historic District in York County, Maine, is a concentration of primarily wood frame, residential buildings that are historically and aesthetically linked by the development of the town. The district was originally listed under Criterion C for its architectural significance at the local level. That significance is still reflected in the 260 resources that make up the district which includes all major architectural styles from the earliest ca.

Criterion A: Industry

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1922 - 1972

Local Level of Significance

The Maine Spinning Company Mill in Skowhegan, Maine is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places at the local level of significance. The four-story brick mill building was designed by the Lockwood, Greene & Co. engineering and architecture firm and constructed as a three-story mill between 1922-1923. One half of the building received an additional story in 1946.

Criterion C: Engineering

Period of Significance: 1889

Local Level of Significance

Dow Bridge in Standish, Cumberland County, Maine is a locally significant example of a stone slab bridge. The bridge is eligible under Criterion C for engineering as an increasingly rare example of what was a common bridge type in Maine from early settlement through the nineteenth century. The abutments are large blocks of dry laid ashlar with granite lintels spanning the opening. A bridge was constructed in this location ca.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1819 - ca. 1830

Local Level of Significance

The David and Hadassah Wass House located in Addison, Washington County, Maine is a good example of a moderate sized Federal-period, Cape Cod form house that has maintained much of its original design and features. The house is reported to be the first constructed in the Addison Point section of town. The building has local significance and is eligible for the National Register under Criterion C architecture for its type, period, and method of construction.

Criterion C: Art

Criterion C: Landscape Architecture

Criterion A: Community Planning and Development

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion A: Social History

Criterion A: Conservation

Period of Significance: 1844 - 1942

National Level of Significance

The Mount Desert Island Hiking Trail System (trail system) is a nationally significant recreational resource that has important associations with the history of Mount Desert Island and the establishment of Acadia National Park.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1810 - ca. 1922

Local Level of Significance

The Morrill Homestead is a New England connected farm complex in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine. The land was purchased by David Morrill in 1810 and the Federal-style house and a barn were constructed at that same time. Morrill farmed, operated a mill near the homestead on the Sandy River, preached, and worked as a carpenter.

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion A: Conservation

Period of Significance: 1925 - 1972

Local Level of Significance

Marginal Way in Ogunquit, York County, Maine is a one and one-quarter mile pedestrian path along the rocky shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean. Marginal Way, together with its access paths, is significant under Criterion A for association with entertainment and recreation in this coastal resort town and for conservation of this stretch of shoreline for public use.