Boothbay Harbor, in Lincoln County, Maine is a community intimately connected with the water. After centuries of ship building and fishing the seaside town with numerous coves, bays, and islands was discovered by the ?Rusticator? tourists who flocked to Maine in the late nineteenth century. Between the 1870s and the onset of the Great Depression, Boothbay Harbor and its neighboring towns experienced an explosion of growth due to seasonal visitors: hotels, cottages, cabins, and intentional ?colonies?

The former Brewer High School was constructed in 1925-26 in a restrained style that combined Art Deco style with an industrial aesthetic. Designed by the architectural firm of Butterfield and Guertin Co. of Manchester, N.H.), the former high school is a two-story building on a raised basement built of buff colored rug tapestry brick with a pronounced vertical texture on the surface. The school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of it significance as the first modern high school building constructed in Brewer.

The 1913/1926 Colonial Theatre on Water Street in Augusta is the last surviving cinema in the downtown area of Maine?s state capitol. Built to replace an earlier movie house that burned along with neighboring buildings in 1912, this theater was designed by Harry S. Coombs, one of Maine?s most popular architects at the time. After another fire in 1926 the building was immediately rebuilt and the size expanded. Recent investigations have revealed that much of the fa?ade of the theatre survived the fire, and many aspects of Coombs' design are extant.

The Winthrop Mills Company Historic District was recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in association with the cotton and woolen textile industry in Winthrop, Maine in the 19th and 20th centuries. The complex, which contains two separate mills, and has eight total contributing historic resources, manufactured textiles with wool manufacturing in the larger complex adjacent to Main Street and cotton manufacturing in the smaller complex on Clark Street.

Located in Appleton Village, in Knox County, Maine the Appleton Union Meeting House is a classic example of a double entry, double-aisle mid-nineteenth century New England Greek Revival style meeting house. It was built in the years before the Civil War, in the relatively prosperous time just before the peak of population was attained in the town, and just five years after this thriving village of McLain's Mills (now known as Appleton Village) was transferred from the Town of Hope to the Town of Appleton with attendant civic enthusiasm.

The Holden Town Hall is an architecturally notable one-and-one-half story wood frame structure located on Main Road in the Penobscot County town of Holden. Erected by the town in 1873 to the designs of an as of yet unknown architect, and later used by the local chapter of the Patrons of Husbandry, the handsome building with Gothic Revival, Italianate and Stick Style details served as the site of the municipality?s governmental functions until the mid-1960s, and as the meeting hall for the local Grange until 1995.

The Village School is a one-story, three-room, eclectically-styled, schoolhouse located in the Waldo County town of Unity, Maine. The school was constructed in a central location in 1898 as smaller, dispersed, rural districts were being consolidated. The school remained the largest grade school in the town until 1953, when a new school was constructed to alleviate the overcrowded conditions plaguing the school.

The Lovell Meeting House in the Oxford County town of Lovell is a building erected between 1796 and 1798 to serve as the town?s religious and secular assembly space. The site was first set aside in 1780 as the location for a meeting house, a training ground and a cemetery for the nascent community. Originally built as a two-story building with a high pulpit and gallery, the building was reduced in height by at least three feet in the 1820s.

The Dixmont Town House is a building erected circa 1836 to serve as the locus of governmental functions for the Penobscot County town of Dixmont. Prior to the middle decades of the 19th century governmental functions in many rural Maine towns were held in a town-built meeting house that also served as the town?s religious edifice. As the century progressed, communities increasingly abandoned their meeting houses, built town houses for civic business and placed their churches in separate buildings.

The Bond Street Historic District is a small collection of employer-built worker housing located on Bond Street in the Kennebec County city of Augusta. The seven residential units thatcomprise the district were built primarily in 1884 by the Edwards Manufacturing Company, a cotton factory, to house the mill workers and their families. The buildings in the district sharecommon massing, proportion and scale, and are arranged in a tight row along paved sidewalks.