Criterion C: Architecture

Criterion Consideration B: Moved property

Period of Significance: 1851

Local Level of Significance

The Gilead Railroad Station was built in 1851 during the construction of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad in Gilead, Oxford County, Maine. The building is the oldest extant station associated with the Grand Trunk Railroad which leased the Atlantic and St. Lawrence line and is the oldest known railroad station in Maine. The small two room building is a utilitarian construction typical of early stations.

Criterion A: Social History, Entertainment/Recreation, Politics/Government

Period of Significance: 1904-1974

Local Level of Significance

Webb River Grange is a vernacular building that has been and continues to be an important social and community center in Carthage, Franklin County, Maine. It was built in 1904 by members of the Webb River Grange #108, established 1876. They met in other buildings until 1904 when they built the current grange building.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1850

Local Level of Significance

The Summer Street Block from 1850 is a two and one-half story frame building designed with Greek Revival style detailing. It is located in downtown Biddeford, York County, Maine and sits at the prominent intersection of Summer Street and Alfred Street, the latter being one of the principal commercial streets in the city.

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation, Social History

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1958-1985

Local Level of Significance

Camp NEOFA in Montville, Waldo County, Maine is a coed children's summer camp started in 1958 by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). Twenty-eight buildings and structures make up the 35-acre property which hosts eight- to fourteen-year-old campers during the summer. The camp is surrounded by primarily pine woods on Trues Pond where campers are provided a rustic Maine summer camp experience.

Criterion A: Social History, Community Planning and Development

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1917-1920

Local Level of Significance

The Washington Park Historic District in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine is significant at the local level for its association with World War I defense housing. The war in Europe both before and after the United States' entry created an increased demand for ship building in Bath.

Criterion A: Transportation

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1945-1953

Local Level of Significance

Hasey's Maine Stages Building at 490 Broadway in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places for local significance under Criterion A for association with transportation. The building served as a bus garage and terminal for Haseys Maine Stages, Inc. from 1945 until 1953.

Criterion A: Military

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1908-1950

Local Level of Significance

The Torpedo Storehouse on Great Diamond Island in Portland, Maine, and the associated Hoister House are locally significant in Maine under the National Register of Historic Places Criterion A, in the area of military history, for their associations with Fort McKinley and the United States government's efforts to defend Portland Harbor in the early twentieth century.

Criterion A: Social History, Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1914-1973

Local Level of Significance

The Trefethen-Evergreen Improvement Association (TEIA) in Portland, Cumberland Country, Maine is located on Peaks Island in Casco Bay. The 1914-15 wood frame building was built as the Dayburn Casino, one of a handful of similar structures that dotted the Maine coast in scenic locations. The building was primarily used as a dancehall; however, largely because of World War I, the venture failed.

Criterion A: Politics/Government, Community Planning and Development

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1967-1969

Local Level of Significance

In 1967, with federal funding and federal design direction from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Portland Housing Authority (PHA) began construction of Franklin Towers, a high-rise, low-income senior housing complex. The apartment tower is locally significant under Criterion A for Politics/ Government.

Criterion A: Exploration/Settlement

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1736 to 1791

Local Level of Significance

The Snipe Farm in Arrowsic, Sagadahoc County, Maine, is an eighteenth-century homestead with a saltbox house, early cemetery, modern out buildings, and the surrounding forested acreage associated with the property when the Snipes owned it.