The two-story, Federal style house located on the north bank of the Ducktrap River in Lincolnville is all that remains to testify to the micro-empire of George Ulmer, a once and future veteran, politician, and businessman, whose rapid rise to success after the American Revolution and rapid decline in fortunes in the first decade of the nineteenth century nonetheless had a lasting effect on the development of this section of mid-coast Maine.
The Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial building is a substantial and finely detailed Shingle Style structure erected in 1891 by the Civil War veterans of the 8th Maine Regiment. Designed by the architectural firm of Fassett and Tompson, the shore-side building is located on the south side of Peaks Island, an island in Casco Bay that is a part of the City of Portland, Maine. Originally constructed to serve as the location of annual reunions, the building presently functions as a memorial structure, museum, and lodging facility.
Over the years the town of Oakfield has slowly lost both its agricultural economy and significance as a rail center, but the Oakfield Grange continues to offer a tangible link to this Southern Aroostook town?s historical development during the late 19th and 20th century. This large structure, with its decorative hall and stage and ample dining facilities, was built by the local members of the Patron?s of Husbandry during a period that witnessed a marked increase in farming activities in the County and a rapid increase in the town?s economic development.
The Col. Gabriel Johonnot House in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine is a ca. 1804-1811, two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick house. The building is significant under Criterion C for its architectural type, period, and method of construction. The faade is laid in Flemish bond while the sides and rear are common bond. The building has a fanlight over the center entry, and the window above on the second floor has an arched head.
The Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial in Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine, was designed by Stanley S. Merrill and built by Louis Malo and Sons in 1937. The Tudor Style building is significant under Criterion C for its architectural style. It is a good example of the style which is relatively rare in Greene and across Maine.
The Winter Harbor Schoolhouse in Hancock County, Maine is a two story, Italianate, gable front, wood frame building located in the center of the village. It is locally significant under Criterion A in the areas of education and entertainment/recreation. The building was built in 1877 as the third school in the Village of Winter Harbor which was then part of the town of Gouldsboro. The previous two schools in the village had burned.
The Goodridge Corner School in Industry, Franklin County, Maine is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of West Mills Road and Industry Road. The gable front vernacular schoolhouse is significant at the local level under Criterion A for its association with patterns of rural education and under Criterion C for its distinctive architectural characteristics of a one room rural schoolhouse.
The former Franklin Grange #124 building is a vernacular two-story, gable front wood frame building that has been and continues to be an important social and community center in Woodstock, Oxford County, Maine. It was built in 1892 by members of the local Grange which had been established on March 11, 1875. They met in other buildings until they built the current Grange building.
Western Cemetery in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine is locally significant under Criterion C for landscape architecture. It reflects an evolving approach to cemetery design in the nineteenth century.
The McCurdy Smokehouse is significant at the national level under Criterion A (Industry) for its association with the historically significant fishing industry in the Downeast region of Maine, and as the last surviving American Complex representing the traditional, vernacular method of smoking herring for preservation.