The Village School is a one-story, three-room, eclectically-styled, schoolhouse located in the Waldo County town of Unity, Maine. The school was constructed in a central location in 1898 as smaller, dispersed, rural districts were being consolidated. The school remained the largest grade school in the town until 1953, when a new school was constructed to alleviate the overcrowded conditions plaguing the school.
The Lovell Meeting House in the Oxford County town of Lovell is a building erected between 1796 and 1798 to serve as the town?s religious and secular assembly space. The site was first set aside in 1780 as the location for a meeting house, a training ground and a cemetery for the nascent community. Originally built as a two-story building with a high pulpit and gallery, the building was reduced in height by at least three feet in the 1820s.
The Dixmont Town House is a building erected circa 1836 to serve as the locus of governmental functions for the Penobscot County town of Dixmont. Prior to the middle decades of the 19th century governmental functions in many rural Maine towns were held in a town-built meeting house that also served as the town?s religious edifice. As the century progressed, communities increasingly abandoned their meeting houses, built town houses for civic business and placed their churches in separate buildings.
The Bond Street Historic District is a small collection of employer-built worker housing located on Bond Street in the Kennebec County city of Augusta. The seven residential units thatcomprise the district were built primarily in 1884 by the Edwards Manufacturing Company, a cotton factory, to house the mill workers and their families. The buildings in the district sharecommon massing, proportion and scale, and are arranged in a tight row along paved sidewalks.
During the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries the Foster-Redington House in Waterville, Maine was the home of two prominent men. The Queen Anne-style house was constructed by Moses C. Foster in 1883 as his own residence, and at the time was recognized as the first example of this architectural style in Waterville. Foster was a celebrated and prolific builder and contractor with important commissions for public buildings, churches and hotels throughout Maine and New Hampshire, as well as in Washington, D.C. and New Brunswick Canada.
The Union Meeting House in the Washington County town of Whiting is a locally rare example of a once-common type of nineteenth-century New England religious architecture. Erected in 1836, this symmetrically composed, timber frame building exhibits the proportions, features and composition of a Federal-style meeting house, but also has a prominent Greek-Revival style closed pediment on the fa?ade. Erected to serve both the Congregational and Methodist-Episcopal societies, the building is now the only church in this small, rural town.
Gooden Grant was a lobsterman who lived and fished out of Head Harbor, the southernmost harbor on the Knox County, Maine island of Isle au Haut. His career lasted over 75 years, from when he started fishing at age nine until he retired at age 84. During this span of time both the fishing industry and the island community experienced a period of great transition. His commodious, well-built and stylish home at a prominent location in Head Harbor attests to his success as a lobsterman, and signifies the historic importance of the local maritime economy.
The 1909 Nathan Clifford School, which served as an anchor of the Oakdale neighborhood in Portland, Maine for over one hundred years, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its role at the forefront of Portland?s educational initiatives. Retaining a high level of architectural significance, the Nathan Clifford School was built to alleviate overcrowding in nearby institutions.
Located on a rise overlooking Moosehead Lake and the town of Greenville, Maine is the former home of William M. Shaw. This elaborate, two-and-a-half story, wood-frame Queen Anne style house was built for one of Greenville?s most prosperous nineteenth-century residents at the height of his success; this is reflected in the building?s rich and ornate embellishments.
?Edgecliff?, a cottage in Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island on the coast of Maine, is a good, early example of a Shingle Style/Queen Anne coastal cottage. It is significant because it evolved from a Shingle Style cottage with Queen Anne elements when it was constructed in 1886-87 to a Shingle Style/Queen Anne hybrid after it was added onto in 1910-11. The new addition was more Queen Anne in style, but it used many design features to unify it with the original design.