The former Abyssinian Meeting House is historically significant as the religious, educational, and cultural center for Portland?s nineteenth-century African American population. It is the earliest religious property associated with a black congregation in Maine (1828). The property also hosted a school for African American children, a residence for the minister, and may have been the site of a community spring or well. Prior to and during the Civil War members of the Abyssinian congregation were associated with abolitionist activities in Portland.

The Kennebec Arsenal Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970 in recognition of the site's military and industrial significance. The property was further recognized as a National Historic Landmark on February 16, 2000. Both listings concentrated on the 19th century function of the property as an military outpost. The intention of the recently approved additional documentation was to expand the period of significance and area of significance to reflect the importance of the 20th century use of this property.

The Bok Amphitheatre at the Camden Library in Camden, Maine is a remarkable outdoor structure in which the landscape architect Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) deftly combined classical architectural forms with a local setting in a manner that set a new direction in modern landscape architecture. The amphitheatre, which is positioned behind the Colonial Revival style library, is sited primarily to maximize the views through the adjacent Camden Harbor Park to the Camden waterfront.

In the middle of the nineteenth-century the village of North Vassalboro, Maine was a bourgeoning mill town. The North Vassalboro Woolen Manufacturing Company was building and expanding its production facilities, and stores, civic structures, and religious buildings were being constructed at a rapid rate. Mill-owned housing was being erected for the native and immigrant workers newly arriving in town. Among the bustle of activity a Scottish immigrant, William F.

The Moody Mansion in East Pittston is a dominant architectural presence in this small farming community in Kennebec County, Maine. Designed in 1890 for Leonard and Marianna Moody by the Parfitt Brothers architectural firm of Brooklyn, NY, the large, ornate and commanding Queen Anne Style house dwarfs the other village structures, both stylistically and physically. Leonard Moody was a native of East Pittston, who after moving to Brooklyn in 1869 flourished in the real estate business. The house he built in East Pittston was his summer home.

The Everett Chambers is a five-story lodging house in Portland Maine, designed in the Colonial Revival style by Portland architect Frederick Tompson in 1902. It was originally constructed at three stories and was raised to five stories in 1926. The ground level contains five store fronts, while the upper four floors contain single-occupancy lodging rooms, currently used by students from the Maine College of Art.

The two-story, Federal style house located on the north bank of the Ducktrap River in Lincolnville is all that remains to testify to the micro-empire of George Ulmer, a once and future veteran, politician, and businessman, whose rapid rise to success after the American Revolution and rapid decline in fortunes in the first decade of the nineteenth century nonetheless had a lasting effect on the development of this section of mid-coast Maine.

The Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial building is a substantial and finely detailed Shingle Style structure erected in 1891 by the Civil War veterans of the 8th Maine Regiment. Designed by the architectural firm of Fassett and Tompson, the shore-side building is located on the south side of Peaks Island, an island in Casco Bay that is a part of the City of Portland, Maine. Originally constructed to serve as the location of annual reunions, the building presently functions as a memorial structure, museum, and lodging facility.

Over the years the town of Oakfield has slowly lost both its agricultural economy and significance as a rail center, but the Oakfield Grange continues to offer a tangible link to this Southern Aroostook town?s historical development during the late 19th and 20th century. This large structure, with its decorative hall and stage and ample dining facilities, was built by the local members of the Patron?s of Husbandry during a period that witnessed a marked increase in farming activities in the County and a rapid increase in the town?s economic development.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1804-1811

Local Level of Significance

The Col. Gabriel Johonnot House in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine is a ca. 1804-1811, two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick house. The building is significant under Criterion C for its architectural type, period, and method of construction. The faade is laid in Flemish bond while the sides and rear are common bond. The building has a fanlight over the center entry, and the window above on the second floor has an arched head.