The Waterboro Grange, # 432 is a building which has served the community of Waterboro for 52 years. The building was erected by members of the Grange between 1948 and 1950 to serve as their meeting hall - their previous hall had burned in a disastrous wildfire that had ravaged Waterboro in 1947. The one story building with full basement is Bungaloid in form and reproduced the Craftsman style and massing of the earlier building. Throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries the Grange, or Patrons of Husbandry, was an important social and fraternal organization with an emphasis on agricultural education. Its influence was widespread ? ultimately 588 individual Granges were established in the state between 1873 and 1985 - but the focus of each Grange was on assisting the local communities. Not only was the Grange Hall a place for the grange members to hold their meetings, in many communities, including Waterboro, it became a center for community activity. Although interest in the Grange began to wane after World War II, the Waterboro chapter remained strong. As a result, the Waterboro Grange building is among the most recent of all the grange halls in Maine. The Waterboro Grange #432 was placed in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, at the local level of significance, for its current and past role in the social and entertainment history of Waterboro. The areas of significance are Social History, and Entertainment and Recreation. It also achieves significance under Criterion C, architecture, as a late example of a Grange building with Craftsman/Bungaloid features, and as a type of building that was designed specifically to meet the ritual and social needs of the Waterboro Grange.