Located on either side of Route 25 just before its intersection with Route 35, the Standish Corner Historic District consists of four buildings dating from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A fifth house that was originally part of the district has been demolished. The buildings in the district are similar in scale, orientation, and setbacks from the road. Wood framed and sheathed in clapboards, all were originally residences. Their facades are symmetrical with central entries. The Daniel Marrett House is the oldest, built in 1789, and now a museum property. The buildings have undergone some alterations since their construction, usually in the form of later style trim and door surrounds, as seen in the Bailey-Swasey House (pictured). The area was settled in the 1760s and the town was incorporated in 1785. Standish Corner was the crossroads on the main route between Portland and Fryeburg. Home to several tanneries, lumber mills, and hotels, the area declined in the second half of the nineteenth century after Standish was bypassed by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway. The increase in traffic along Route 25 and the encroachment of twentieth-century development have somewhat diminished the nineteenth-century village feel of the district.
Year Listed: 1993
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