Kezar Falls Circulating Library

Criterion A: Education and Social History

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1924 - 1971

Local Level of Significance

The Kezar Falls Circulating Library is a two room Colonial Revival-style building in the village of Kezar Falls within the Town of Parsonsfield, York County. John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects designed the building in 1923 with construction complete in 1924. A local subscription library association was formed in 1896 but was housed in small temporary quarters until the erection of this building.

Dover-Foxcroft Commercial Historic District

Criterion A: Commerce

Criterion A: Communication

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1836 - 1971

Local Level of Significance

The Dover-Foxcroft Commercial Historic District located in the town of Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, is significant under National Register Criterion A in the areas of Commerce, Communication, Entertainment and Recreation.

Greenwood Garden Playhouse

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Period of Significance: ca. 1909 - 1957

Local Level of Significance

Greenwood Garden Playhouse in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine is located on Peaks Island in Casco Bay. The ca. 1909 wood frame building is a summer theater and entertainment venue constructed as part of Greenwood Gardens recreation area. The building is locally significant under Criterion A Entertainment / Recreation.

Brunswick Square

Criterion A: Community Planning and Development

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion C: Landscape Architecture

Period of Significance: 1808 - 1971

Local Level of Significance

Brunswick Square in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine is a three-acre greenspace laid out during an 1808 survey and given to the city in 1824 for public use as a public walk and parade ground. The Square is significant under Criterion C for landscape architecture as a good example of its type of landscape architecture.

Young Surgical Building - Central Maine Sanatorium

Criterion A: Health/Medicine

Period of Significance: 1955 - 1970

Local Level of Significance

The Young Surgical Building in Fairfield, Maine possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. The building is locally significant under National Register Criterion A in the area of Health/Medicine for its association with the treatment of tuberculosis in Maine from 1955, when the building was constructed, to 1970, when the Central Maine Sanatorium closed.

Phillips High School

Criterion C: Architecture

Criterion A: Education

Period of Significance: 1894 - 1970

Local Level of Significance

Phillips High School is a large, two story, wood frame building located in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine. It was designed by George M. Coombs and built in 1894 as the second High School in town and later served as the Junior High School after several towns combined to build a new consolidated high school.

Lincoln Street Fire Station

Criterion A: Politics/Government

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1963 - 64

Local Level of Significance

The Lincoln Street Fire Station possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. Completed in 1964, the fire station is significant on the local level and meets Criterion A for listing in the National Register in the area of Politics/Government for its association with the federal Public Works Acceleration Act (PWAA) of 1962.

Herald Building

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1910

Local Level of Significance

The Herald Building at 10 Bay View Street, Camden, Knox County, Maine is a good example of a two-part commercial block. As such, the brick, two-story building is locally significant under Criterion C for embodying the distinctive characteristics of this building type. The period of significance is the 1910 construction date. The Herald Building is south of the Great Fire Historic District (NR ID# 06001221) and east of the Chestnut Street Historic District (NR ID# 91000325).

Portland Waterfront Historic District Boundary Increase

Criterion A: Commerce, Transportation, Community Planning & Development

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1790 - 1936

Local Level of Significance

The Portland Waterfront Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1974 for its significance at the local level in the areas of Architecture, Commerce, Transportation and Urban Planning (Community Planning and Development).

Blackjack (Friendship sloop)

Criterion A: Maritime History

Period of Significance: 1910 - 1935

Local Level of Significance

The Blackjack is a single-masted, Friendship sloop designed and built in 1900 by Wilbur Morse in Friendship, Maine. The ship is now berthed at the Sail, Power and Steam Museum in Rockland, Knox County, Maine. Designed as a 33' fishing sloop, she was used in various fisheries and occasionally as a coastal trader for thirty-five years before being converted to a personal yacht in 1935.

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