Forest Lodge is a compact cluster of historic buildings which is almost as isolated in time as it is geographically from the rest of the state. A small, triangular section of the Town of Upton in western Oxford County is located northeast of the Rapid River, and is inaccessible except from Magalloway Plantation to the north.
The Surry Town Hall is a structure that has served as a community building, church, and as the location of the Town of Surry?s governmental functions since 1844. It was originally built in East Surry as the Town House in 1828, but was later sold to the Union Meetinghouse Society and moved into Surry Village. The town retained use of the building during this period, and after it ceased to be used as a church reverted back to municipal functions. Since 1983 the building has been the home of the Surry Historical Society.
The Soldiers Memorial Library is a one story, eclectic style building designed by the Boston architects Robert H. Wambolt and Amos A. Lawrence in 1914. Located in the Southern Oxford County town of Hiram, it was built with funds donated largely by Virginia Barker Jordan as well as local residents. The building is owned by the Town of Hiram and administered by a Board of Trustees. Within the realm of libraries in the state, the Soldiers Memorial Library is notable as one of only two constructed of ornamental concrete block.
Cliffwood Hall is a structure that has served as a community building, entertainment and recreation venue, and as the location of the Town of Clifton's governmental functions since 1892. It was originally built by a group of local residents, the Band of Willing Workers, as a hall for socials, entertainment and meetings. Seven years later, the Town of Clifton purchased the Hall, and for the next nine decades it continued to serve its original function while also providing offices for town officials and space for the Town's annual public meetings.
Constructed in 1863 as the District #3 school, the Harold Allan Schoolhouse is the last surviving one-room educational facility in this Penobscot County community. In 1912, as the population of the town decreased and shifted, the school was moved about a quarter mile to its current location, adjacent to Cliffwood Hall (Town Hall) at Clifton Corners. At that time a wood shed and outhouse were added to the side of the building and a new vestibule attached to its facade. The Harold Allan School continued to be utilized by the community through the end of the spring term in 1966.
Rivercroft Farm is an extensive agricultural complex with a long history. Home to seven generations of the Weston family, the farm was established in the early nineteenth century. The property contains three residences, two major barns and twelve other agricultural structures erected from the 1830s through the 1980s, all set on over 185 acres of fertile land on the east and west banks of the Saco River. Notable among these buildings is the Second Empire style John Weston House, designed by Portland architect Francis H. Fassett, which replaced the family?s Federal-era home by 1873.
Rock Rest was a summer guest house owned by the Sinclair family in Kittery Point, Maine that offered accommodations, fine dining, and excursions, to African American tourists for three decades after World War II. As one of only a few African American guest houses in the state, Rock Rest enjoyed considerable success and attracted vacationers from across the country. In response to demand the Sinclair?s expanded their home and added guest quarters in a separate building, eventually achieving the capacity to house up to sixteen guests at a time.
The Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library is a one and one-half story Georgian style Colonial Revival brick building designed by the Portland architect William O. Armitage in 1937. It was built with funds donated by Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Thornburg, the daughter of one of the Town?s most noted residents, Louis B. Goodall. The building is owned by the Town of Sanford and administered by a Board of Trustees.
The Enterprise Grange, # 173 is a building which has served the community of Orrington, Maine for 123 years. Built by members of the Grange in 1884 as their meeting hall, the Italianate building is outfitted with an attractive hall, complete with balcony and stage, and a spacious dining room and convenient kitchen. Its design not only offered the members of the Grange with facilities in which to conduct their meetings and rituals, but made the property valuable as a social and cultural facility for the residents of the town as a whole.
The Corinth Town Hall and Corinthian Lodge #59, I. O. O. F is a substantial, architecturally notable, two story structure located on Main Street in the Penobscot County village of East Corinth. Erected jointly by the Lodge and the Town in 1880, the handsome Italianate style building with Stick Style details served as the site of the municipality-s governmental functions, and as the meeting hall for the fraternal organization into the 1980s. It was also an important public hall utilized by the community as a site for entertainment and recreation throughout its history.