The Hallowell Historic District encompasses the commercial downtown and adjacent residential neighborhoods of Hallowell. The district contains approximately 450 buildings including commercial, residential, civic, industrial, and religious structures. Nearly 85% of the buildings in the district were constructed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hallowell was incorporated in 1771 and at that time included land that become Augusta and Chelsea. A bustling center developed around the intersection of County Road (now Water Street), formerly a post road to Brunswick; and the Coos Road (now Winthrop Road), which connected it to western New Hampshire. These roadways made Hallowell an important shipping port on the Kennebec River. The earliest buildings in the district date from the 1790s to 1810s. Most of these buildings demonstrate the Federal style, including the brick commercial block Kennebec Row, below. The Kennebec Row is a continuous row of brick commercial buildings and represents an increasingly rare sub-type of the Federal style extant in Maine. It is thought to still contain winches and hoists used during the period of shipping dominance.
Year Listed: 1970
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