Snipe Farm

Criterion A: Exploration/Settlement

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1736 to 1791

Local Level of Significance

The Snipe Farm in Arrowsic, Sagadahoc County, Maine, is an eighteenth-century homestead with a saltbox house, early cemetery, modern out buildings, and the surrounding forested acreage associated with the property when the Snipes owned it.

Paul and Lucena Webster Summer House

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1867

Local Level of Significance

The Paul and Lucena Webster Summer House at Fort Point, Stockton Springs, Waldo County, Maine was built in 1867 as a summer house near a small summer tourist area. The building is architecturally significant under Criterion C for its building type as an early summer cottage. The building is also significant under Criterion A for its association with entertainment/recreation. Fort Point had been a daytrip destination since 1859.

Historic Preservation Fund Grant 2023/2024

The Maine Paper & Heritage Museum, a non-profit organization located in Livermore Falls, Maine, has received funding to address building structural issues identified by the Building Condition Assessment report the museum commissioned in 2021. The museum is in an historic building that has suffered from years of deferred maintenance. The Board of the museum seeks to secure the envelope of the building, with this phase addressing the leaking roof. The HPF grant is augmented by a grant from the New Century Community Fund.

Certified Local Government Grant 2023

The City of Portland on behalf of the First Parish Church in Portland received a CLG grant of $15,000 to complete a predevelopment investigation of the First Parish front stairs and the retaining wall adjacent to Freshman Alley in Portland, Maine. This will be a limited engineering investigation for the structural rehabilitation of the stairs and wall associated with the historic church. The granite retaining wall on the northeast side of the Parish Hall Garden is visibly bowed and in danger of failing, and the shifting granite front steps form a safety hazard.

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