The Blue Hill Historic District comprises the commercial and residential center of the town of Blue Hill at the intersection of Routes 15, 172, and 177. Settlers from Andover, Massachusetts, arrived in this area in 1762. A small town formed, bolstered by lumbering, shipbuilding, and saw, carding, fulling, and grist mills. The historic district includes nine buildings that were constructed prior to 1820. Many of these resources are residential structures, including the 1814 George Stevens House (now the Academy House, pictured below) on Union Street and the 1815 Holt House (now the Blue Hill Historical Society). These buildings exhibit the Federal style and have symmetrical facades and small window openings. The district also includes the 1817 Baptist Church, which was remodeled in the Greek Revival style in 1856. Throughout the nineteenth-century, the town continued to prosper as the home to many sea captains and from a short-lived copper mining boom in the area. By the turn of the twentieth century, the town had become a popular summer tourism destination.
Year Listed: 1980
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