The Portland Waterfront Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1974 for its significance at the local level in the areas of architecture, commerce, transportation and community planning and development. On December 23, 1984 additional properties were added to the district and the boundary expanded at both the east and west ends of the district. The purpose of the current nomination was to again increase the boundaries to include two more buildings and a granite bulkhead on the south side of Commercial Street.

The former Berwick High School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places the local level of significance in the areas of Architecture and Education. The period of significance, 1927/1928 represents the building?s construction date. The property is significant for its associations with the education of Berwick?s children, providing public high school education to the community for over 80 years.

The West Paris Lodge, No. 15, I.O.O.F. is a two story frame building containing a dining room, kitchen, stage and fraternal meeting rooms. The building is located on Main Street in the Oxford County town of West Paris, just a block from the center of town. Erected by the Odd Fellows Lodge between 1876 and 1880, the handsome Italianate style building served as the meeting hall for the fraternal organization into the 1980s. It was also an important community venue for entertainment and recreation throughout its history.

For almost 200 years Rockland, Maine?s principal commercial thoroughfare has been the densely built Main Street. The street is lined with brick or frame, one, two and three story stores, banks, offices and other commercial structures in architectural styles including the Greek Revival, Italianate, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival and Commercial style. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings are found all along the street, but the greatest concentration of buildings with historic integrity are located in the northern two-thirds of the commercial district.

The former Emery School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in the areas of education and architecture. The Emery School was erected in 1912 as a ?union? school, replacing four nearby public grammar schools that were consolidated into a single building. This was part of an effort to more efficiently educate a rapidly growing population of school age residents and as such, the property is important for its role in educating Biddeford?s children, providing public education to the community for roughly 80 years.

Located in the rural, Waldo county farming town of Troy, the 1840 Troy Union Meeting House is a classic example of a type of meeting house or church that was erected by some rural communities in Maine in the four decades prior to the Civil War. Built as a Union Church, without a specific denomination, the building served the members of the Troy Meeting House Society, and by extension as the only church in the town, the community.

The Seven Star Grange # 73 is a building which has served the community of Troy for 135 years. The hall was built by members of the Grange in 1876 to serve as their meeting hall, only three years after the first Grange was established in Maine. Throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries the Grange, or Patron?s of Husbandry, was an important social and fraternal organization with an emphasis on agricultural education. Its influence was widespread ?

Located in a quiet residential neighborhood in Lewiston, Maine the Philip M. and Deborah N. Isaacson House is often mistaken for a private tennis court or enclosed swimming pool. The facade of the home, elevated on a level terrace, presents to the street a wall of vertical redwood siding, broken only at the corners by elongated frosted-glass panels and in the middle by an open portal with a white wooden frame.

In 1906 the Vermont native, Russell W. Porter, purchased 50 acres of mostly undeveloped land on Marshall Point, in Port Clyde village, town of Saint George, Maine. In the early 1890s Russell had studied art with marine painter Charles H. Woodbury and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received two gold medals for his Beaux Arts architectural designs and helped design an exhibit for the 1893 Columbian exposition in Chicago. Between then and 1906 he joined no less than nine exploratory Arctic-region expeditions as artist and surveyor, including Robert E.

The ?Barn on Lot 8, Range G? is an English style barn modified in plan to provide for additional livestock, equipment and feed storage. Built circa 1825, the older part of this two-section barn exhibits a hewn timber frame, complex joinery fastened with pegs, and a traditional three-bay plan with center aisle. Before the end of the century a two-bent addition was erected on the west, gable-end wall. Constructed of scribe-ruled sawn timber, but utilizing similar joinery, the new section of the barn increased the footprint of the building from about 1500 to 2400 square feet.