The Maine Historic Preservation Commission anticipates awarding approximately $95,000 in 75/25 matching grants in 2025 for the preparation of National Register nominations, Architectural or Archaeological Survey, or Preservation Planning, Education, Archaeology, Development or Pre-Development projects. The deadline for applications is October 3, 2025.

Eligible historic buildings and sites are those that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places either individually or as contributing resources in a National Register-listed historic district.

Criterion A: Education

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1932

Local Level of Significance

The Alpha Tau Omega House located in at 81 College Avenue, Orono, Penobscot County, Maine is a fraternity chapter house associated with the University of Maine flagship campus. The building is significant on the local level under Criterion A, Education and Criterion C, Architecture. Designed by Crowell & Lancaster and built in 1932, ATO House provided housing for its fraternity members.

Criterion A: Transportation

Period of Significance: 1922-1973

Local Level of Significance

Miller's Garage at 25 Rankin Street in Rockland, Knox County, Maine is locally significant under National Register Criterion A for its association with events that have made an important contribution to the broad patterns of transportation history. It is an early automobile sales and repair shop in Rockland, and its architecture resembles many of the other local automobile service buildings of its time.

Criterion A: Education

Criterion C: Architecture

Criterion Consideration A: Religious Property

Period of Significance: 1862-1971

Local Level of Significance

Catherine McAuley High School is locally significant under National Register Criterion A for Education and Criterion C for Architecture and is being nominated to the National Register as a boundary increase to the listed St. Joseph's Academy and Convent. When the St.

Criterion A: Industry

Criterion A: Community Development and Planning

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1892-1930

Local Level of Significance

The Great Fire of 1911 Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 14, 1984 for its significance at the local level in the areas of Architecture, Commerce, and Community Planning. The Peirce Block is a significant part of the history of the City of Bangor at the juncture between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Criterion A: Industry

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1832-1972

Local Level of Significance

The Biddeford/Saco Mills Historic District is significant for its association with development of the Biddeford/Saco region from a remote seventeenth-century maritime settlement to a major industrial center in the nineteenth century. Buildings that make up the district are representative of the industrial development that fueled growth and expansion of Biddeford and Saco in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1818, ca. 1875-80

Local Level of Significance

The Pilley House located in the small town of Brooks, Waldo County, Maine, was built in 1818 and was associated with a number of well-known local individuals. The longest association was with the Pilley family from 1863 to 2005.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1855-56

Local Level of Significance

Orr's Island Meeting House is located on the island of that name in Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine. The gable front building with minimal decoration or detail is significant at the local level under Criterion C for architecture as a good example of its type, period and method of construction. The building is a type employed by smaller congregations often in isolated locations and reflects modest rural church architecture of the mid-nineteenth century.