The Bradford Peck House sits among the turn of the century mansions along Main Street, one mile north of the Lewiston business district and the former textile mills along the Androscoggin River. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the areas of commerce, social history and architecture. The Peck House is significant in the area of commerce because Bradford Peck established Peck?s Department Store, the largest department store in New England outside of Boston, and in the area of social history because of his enthusiastic promotion of a utopian economic system which he characterized as a giant cooperative enterprise. The Peck House is significant in the area of architecture because it is a fine example of a rambling, Colonial Revival house and because it was designed by the regionally prolific and successful architect George M. Coombs. Bradford Peck and his house, built in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, reflect the American turn of the century optimism and idealism that produced the City Beautiful Movement, the House Beautiful Movement and the Progressive Reform Movement.