The ca. 1885 Old Red Store in the Village of Bernard in the Town of Tremont, Hancock County, Maine is an intact small-town grocery store that also served as post office and social gathering place. Originally housing the T.W. Jackson Market, the building was maintained in the same family as a store for fifty years.
Camp Cinnamon was founded as a private hunting club in rural Norway, Oxford County, Maine. Hunting camps and clubs are common in northern Maine. Camp Cinnamon is a good example of a specific type of hunting camp: a single building with a local membership in a rural location relatively close to member's homes. The camp was visited by the entire membership periodically but also used by smaller sub-groups.
The Mary E. is a two-masted, auxiliary schooner designed and built in 1906 by Thomas Hagan in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine. Designed as a 46' fishing schooner, she was used in various fisheries and as a coastal trader for more than fifty years before being converted to recreational use in 1965 after having been abandoned. In 2017-18 she was acquired by the Maine Maritime Museum and restored to her original design.
In 1892, the Town of Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine constructed the Sound Schoolhouse in the Village of Sound, replacing a cramped and deteriorating school with a new, up-to-date building where village children could be educated. The gable-front Sound Schoolhouse is an example of a vernacular one-room schoolhouse commonly found in Maine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Greene Cottage was built in 1913 at the southern tip of Basin Point in Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine. The bungalow was built as a summer cottage for a middle-class Boston family. The family purchased a lot along the Maine coast and hired a local contractor. The expansion of summer tourism along the Maine coast started after the Civil War and continued through the 1920s due to a generally strong economy, expanding leisure time and improved transportation networks.
The Stage Island Monument is a Federal aid to navigation built in 1825 as a day beacon serving as a visual landmark for mariners. It marks the northern entry to Wood Island Harbor, a sheltered anchorage approximately midway between Portland, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This property is historically significant in York County on the local level.
Merriconeag Grange is a vernacular building that has been, and continues to serve, as an important social and community center in Harpswell, Maine. It was built in 1918 by members of the Merriconeag Grange #425, established 1903, on the foundation of their former hall which burned in 1912.
The Walking Man Sign in the Duck Pond Village section of Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine was built in 1962 along US 302 to advertise a nearby television repair and sales business. The Populuxe style sign is a good example of large, mechanized and illuminated roadside advertising designed to be visible to the fast moving automobile traffic of its day.
The former Town Office and Jail are located in Island Falls, Aroostook County, Maine. The small town is located in heavily wooded northern Maine in a relatively sparsely settled area. The building is locally significant under Criteria A for its association with town government. The building represents the small community's response to the loss by fire of the previous town office and many associated town records. The decorative concrete block and poured concrete construction ensured preservation of town records, and provided secure holding cells for local law enforcement.
The Singhi Double House, built in 1891, is a good example of a modest, Queen Anne Style double house located in the Knox County town of Rockland, Maine. The two-family dwelling with mirrored elevations and floor plans is a late example of a large number of double houses that were built in Rockland between 1837 and the early twentieth century. By 1912 over 125 double houses were erected in Rockland - almost 10 percent of the city's residential building stock and they ran the gamut from small, vernacular capes to architect designed high-style dwellings with significant square footage.