As Maine communities began to lose some of their frontier aspects in the early nineteenth- century and assumed a more settled appearance, rudimentary civic improvements were initiated. Among these improvements in the largely agricultural world of rural Maine was the regulation of the livestock which were becoming numerous. To address this problem towns constructed shelters for the temporary control of wayward animals. The existence of 21 of these structures in Maine have been verified, and their condition varies from almost unrecognizable to good.

The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle Maine is an integrated complex of wooden buildings designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes starting in 1959. The complex, which contains craft studios, bunkhouses, administration buildings, and a dining facility, is simultaneously cleaved to and floats above a steep hillside overlooking Jericho Bay and the Deer Isle Thorofare.

The John B. Colcord Farmstead is an agricultural complex comprised of fields and woods, a house, barn, and multi-function outbuildings in Benton, Maine. The extant structures generally represent domestic and agricultural activities from the 1880s, 1899, and the 1930s through the 1980s, while the history of the land stretches into the 18th century.

In 1980 the Leonard Bond Chapman House in Portland Maine was placed in the National Register for its architectural significance, and for its association with Chapman, a nurseryman, newspaper editor and historian who concentrated on the history of Portland and the surrounding area. The house that he erected between 1866 and 1868 is a well-designed and well-preserved example of an Italianate structure with a distinctive porch, tower, and mansard roof.

The former Abyssinian Meeting House is historically significant as the religious, educational, and cultural center for Portland?s nineteenth-century African American population. It is the earliest religious property associated with a black congregation in Maine (1828). The property also hosted a school for African American children, a residence for the minister, and may have been the site of a community spring or well. Prior to and during the Civil War members of the Abyssinian congregation were associated with abolitionist activities in Portland.

The Kennebec Arsenal Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970 in recognition of the site's military and industrial significance. The property was further recognized as a National Historic Landmark on February 16, 2000. Both listings concentrated on the 19th century function of the property as an military outpost. The intention of the recently approved additional documentation was to expand the period of significance and area of significance to reflect the importance of the 20th century use of this property.

The Bok Amphitheatre at the Camden Library in Camden, Maine is a remarkable outdoor structure in which the landscape architect Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) deftly combined classical architectural forms with a local setting in a manner that set a new direction in modern landscape architecture. The amphitheatre, which is positioned behind the Colonial Revival style library, is sited primarily to maximize the views through the adjacent Camden Harbor Park to the Camden waterfront.

In the middle of the nineteenth-century the village of North Vassalboro, Maine was a bourgeoning mill town. The North Vassalboro Woolen Manufacturing Company was building and expanding its production facilities, and stores, civic structures, and religious buildings were being constructed at a rapid rate. Mill-owned housing was being erected for the native and immigrant workers newly arriving in town. Among the bustle of activity a Scottish immigrant, William F.

The Moody Mansion in East Pittston is a dominant architectural presence in this small farming community in Kennebec County, Maine. Designed in 1890 for Leonard and Marianna Moody by the Parfitt Brothers architectural firm of Brooklyn, NY, the large, ornate and commanding Queen Anne Style house dwarfs the other village structures, both stylistically and physically. Leonard Moody was a native of East Pittston, who after moving to Brooklyn in 1869 flourished in the real estate business. The house he built in East Pittston was his summer home.

The Everett Chambers is a five-story lodging house in Portland Maine, designed in the Colonial Revival style by Portland architect Frederick Tompson in 1902. It was originally constructed at three stories and was raised to five stories in 1926. The ground level contains five store fronts, while the upper four floors contain single-occupancy lodging rooms, currently used by students from the Maine College of Art.