Criterion A: Politics/Government, Community Planning and Development

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1967-1969

Local Level of Significance

In 1967, with federal funding and federal design direction from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Portland Housing Authority (PHA) began construction of Franklin Towers, a high-rise, low-income senior housing complex. The apartment tower is locally significant under Criterion A for Politics/ Government.

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.

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.

Expanded several times since its construction, the Barrell Homestead was originally a smaller two-story block, built by Matthew Grover. The property was taken over by Jonathan Sayward in 1757 and then occupied by Sayward's daughter Sally and her husband, Nathaniel Barrell. Barrell was a prominent resident of York and served in the colonial militia. He became a follower of Robert Sandeman, a nonconformist Scottish theologian, in 1760 which led to him being ostracized by his community and father-in-law. He died in 1831 and the house passed to his son.

Positioned above the east bank of the Kennebec River, the John Davis House is a rare example of a brick Federal-style house in the Kennebec River Valley. The house is side-gabled with a symmetrical front faade. The central entry is placed below a recessed arch. The entry has an elaborate surround with an elliptical fan placed above the paneled door flanked by sidelights and pilasters. Each window is topped with a granite lintel. The side porch was added in the early twentieth century. Little is known about John Davis, who likely built this house shortly after Chelsea was platted in 1815.

The Deacon Andrew Dunning House, located on Route 123, is a two-story dwelling that sits on a rubble stone foundation. It has a side-gabled roof with a central chimney and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The facade is symmetrical with a central paneled door that sits within a pedimented vestibule. Little is known about Andrew Dunning before moving to Harpswell. His father, William, was a cobbler, but Andrew likely had a seafaring profession. He was married with three children when construction on the house began in the mid-eighteenth century. Dunning was a prominent town citizen.

Located east of Paris proper, the Robinson-Parsons House is an excellent example of the Federal style. The main block of the house was finished in 1803 and was added to the front of what is now a rear ell. The rear ell was constructed c.1795. The side-gabled house exhibits unique features such as brick end walls and an elaborately carved cornice and central door surround. The surround consists of pilasters supporting a delicately carved frieze below a projecting cornice. A fanlight with fine muntins tops the paneled wood door.

The Fuller-Weston House is a Federal-style residence with a hipped roof with small modillion blocks located under the eaves. The front entry is centered on the symmetrical front faade and is now covered by a c. 1900 porch. The door is accented by pilasters, ornate sidelights, and a louvered fan. The house is significant because of its association with three prominent judges. Henry Weld Fuller, the house's builder, purchased 100 acres of land in 1818 in what would become the center of Augusta. He was a lawyer who eventually served as the Judge of Probate in Kennebec County.

The John Moore House is distinctive as one of the oldest in the Mid-Coast with portions of the house dating to c. 1741. European-American settler John Moore originally constructed a one-and-one half story Cape house on this crest overlooking the tidal estuary of the Sheepscot River. Moore sold the property to John Grey in 1764 and Grey, requiring more space for a large family, enlarged the cape to its current form around 1765. The central entrance is simple with sidelights added in the early nineteenth century.

Major General Alexander Campbell built this two-story house on Campbell Hill. Considered a "distinguished" man in eastern Maine, Campbell served in the military during the French and Indian War and commanded a militia during the American Revolution. Like many in the area, he was prosperous in the lumber industry. He also served in the Massachusetts State Senate, was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, an original overseer of Bowdoin College, and negotiated a treaty with the Passamaquoddy Indians.