The Lewiston Mills and Water Power Systems Historic District reflects the significance of Lewiston as an important textile manufacturing center in Maine and Northern New England from 1850 to 1950. The district?s complexes, stores, schools, commercial, industrial and social buildings and infrastructure of the predominately cotton textile industry were the stimuli for Lewiston?s development as a city, its economic success and subsequent population increases, including the prolific immigration of French-Canadians.

The Whitney Farm is a moderately sized farm of 206 acres in Appleton and Searsmont, Maine with a long history of agricultural use. Established circa 1825 by John Tole, the house, ell, barn and shed, poultry houses, cooper shop, corn crib and ice house have worked in concert to support the farm?s residents even as the demography and the products of the farm changed. The most significant evolution at the farm occurred circa 1925 when the Whitney family started to raise poultry in greater numbers and constructed or altered several buildings on the property for that purpose.

The Judson Record House in Livermore Falls is a local landmark. Located on a hill overlooking downtown and the riverfront location of the town?s most significant manufactories, the building carries a prestige of style as one of the last great early-twentieth century houses in town. The Georgian Revival style house was designed by the Lewiston architectural firm of Coombs and Gibbs in 1906 and constructed shortly thereafter. In addition it is a significant link to the industries and men that developed the town and the area. Its first owner, Judson A.

The F. M. Jordan House is a beautiful Second Empire style house located in a quiet neighborhood in Auburn, Maine. The building was built in 1881 by the well-known local builder, C.A. Jordan, to plans by the architect Charles Sumner Frost, then of Boston. F. M. Jordan was an entrepreneur who owned a large saw mill in Lewiston and was the head of the Lewiston Aqueduct Company, which provided water to the growing city starting in the 1860s.

The resources in the Auburn Commercial Historic District represent the greatest concentration and density of historic commercial properties in Auburn. The ?L? shaped district is comprised of 9 contributing buildings, 3 non-contributing buildings, and one non-contributing site located on both sides of one block on Main Street and on one side of two blocks on Court Street. With buildings erected between 1855 and circa 1902, the establishment of the commercial district paralleled the city?s industrial, political and economic growth during the same period.

The Ogunquit Playhouse was first listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1995 in recognition of its local historic significance within the context of performing arts and community planning and development. Since that time, additional scholarship has been undertaken on the history of summer theater thus enabling the property to be evaluated within a broader context. Based on this research, the Ogunquit Playhouse?s listing was raised to the national level of significance in the area of Performing Arts Education.

Boothbay Harbor, in Lincoln County, Maine is a community intimately connected with the water. After centuries of ship building and fishing the seaside town with numerous coves, bays, and islands was discovered by the ?Rusticator? tourists who flocked to Maine in the late nineteenth century. Between the 1870s and the onset of the Great Depression, Boothbay Harbor and its neighboring towns experienced an explosion of growth due to seasonal visitors: hotels, cottages, cabins, and intentional ?colonies?

The former Brewer High School was constructed in 1925-26 in a restrained style that combined Art Deco style with an industrial aesthetic. Designed by the architectural firm of Butterfield and Guertin Co. of Manchester, N.H.), the former high school is a two-story building on a raised basement built of buff colored rug tapestry brick with a pronounced vertical texture on the surface. The school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of it significance as the first modern high school building constructed in Brewer.

The 1913/1926 Colonial Theatre on Water Street in Augusta is the last surviving cinema in the downtown area of Maine?s state capitol. Built to replace an earlier movie house that burned along with neighboring buildings in 1912, this theater was designed by Harry S. Coombs, one of Maine?s most popular architects at the time. After another fire in 1926 the building was immediately rebuilt and the size expanded. Recent investigations have revealed that much of the fa?ade of the theatre survived the fire, and many aspects of Coombs' design are extant.

The Winthrop Mills Company Historic District was recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in association with the cotton and woolen textile industry in Winthrop, Maine in the 19th and 20th centuries. The complex, which contains two separate mills, and has eight total contributing historic resources, manufactured textiles with wool manufacturing in the larger complex adjacent to Main Street and cotton manufacturing in the smaller complex on Clark Street.