In 1933 an intentionally set fire destroyed approximately 130 buildings in the downtown area of Ellsworth, Maine. Five years later a brick commercial block was erected by the City in order to help propel the city and region?s economic recovery. Known as The Grand, the one-story block on upper Main Street contained five steel and glass storefronts and a recessed lobby that lead to a 730 seat auditorium. Dedicated initially to screening motion pictures, the interior of the theatre features Art Deco motifs executed in patterned painted wood and tile, and streamlined trim elements.

The Monson Community Church is a unique religious structure that illustrates both physically and organizationally how local houses of worship responded to changing demographic patterns in a small, fairly remote, Maine town. The physical church was formed when two independent congregations, the Congregational Church and the Baptist Church (both with dwindling membership), realized that neither could continue to maintain separate buildings.

The former Frank C. Frisbee Elementary School in Kittery, York County was listed in the National Register of Historic Places at the local level of significance under Criterion A, Military, as a building funded and constructed under the War Public Works Project (Project # ME 17-105F), and for its association with the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

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.

Built initially in 1834 as a gristmill on Sandy Stream in the Waldo County, Maine town of Freedom, the Mill at Freedom Falls functioned as an industrial site for 133 years. The building?s history, which includes conversion to a wood turning mill (or ?turnery?) in the last decade of the 19th century, reflects the predominant land use patterns of the region and the viability of enterprises designed to serve those land uses.

The Montville Town House was constructed in 1827 by Humphrey Edgcomb as the North Ridge Meeting House. This structure was built to serve the 2nd [Montville] Free Will Baptist Church, which had been organized in 1818. The vernacular building featured box pews and a pulpit situated between the front entrances, a relatively uncommon church arrangement known as a ?reverse plan?. The function of the building expanded in 1828 when the town of Montville started to utilize the structure as a town house ? the location of public meetings and town business.

The Portland Waterfront Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1974 for its significance at the local level in the areas of architecture, commerce, transportation and community planning and development. On December 23, 1984 additional properties were added to the district and the boundary expanded at both the east and west ends of the district. The purpose of the current nomination was to again increase the boundaries to include two more buildings and a granite bulkhead on the south side of Commercial Street.

The former Berwick High School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places the local level of significance in the areas of Architecture and Education. The period of significance, 1927/1928 represents the building?s construction date. The property is significant for its associations with the education of Berwick?s children, providing public high school education to the community for over 80 years.

The West Paris Lodge, No. 15, I.O.O.F. is a two story frame building containing a dining room, kitchen, stage and fraternal meeting rooms. The building is located on Main Street in the Oxford County town of West Paris, just a block from the center of town. Erected by the Odd Fellows Lodge between 1876 and 1880, the handsome Italianate style building served as the meeting hall for the fraternal organization into the 1980s. It was also an important community venue for entertainment and recreation throughout its history.

For almost 200 years Rockland, Maine?s principal commercial thoroughfare has been the densely built Main Street. The street is lined with brick or frame, one, two and three story stores, banks, offices and other commercial structures in architectural styles including the Greek Revival, Italianate, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival and Commercial style. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings are found all along the street, but the greatest concentration of buildings with historic integrity are located in the northern two-thirds of the commercial district.