Positioned on top of a small hill east of the Kennebec River, the Colburn School is a modest side-gabled building and a rare example of an early brick school. It has an asymmetrical facade with the front entry placed to the left of three windows. Each window is topped with a granite lintel. The wood shingled ell was constructed to hold two privies. The school is one-room, typical of nineteenth-century rural educational buildings where one teacher taught all grades in a single space.

The Nutting Homestead is an example of the adaptability of a rural Maine farmstead which evolved through the late-eighteenth century to the early-nineteenth century. Initially constructed as a cape with a later, grand attached Federal period house, the farm grew to include a barn, carriage house, and corn crib. The cape, built by Nathan Nutting shortly after moving to Otisfield in 1796, is a one-story dwelling that sits on a granite foundation with clapboards siding, but has lost its original central entry.

The Dr. Samuel Quimby House is sited overlooking a valley of farmland. Dr. Quimby bought 100 acres of land here in 1793 or 1794 and he and his wife Lydia remained here until 1836. The house, constructed in the Federal style by a talented though unknown builder, has elaborate and unusual decorative finishes. The most notable decorative features are the entrance and the ornate Palladian window centered over it. The front entry is unusual with a six-part door topped by an elliptical transom with three round panes.

Located in a rural area northwest of Norway proper, the Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bennett House is a large two-story building with interior end chimneys in a side-gabled roof. The house has symmetrically placed windows and doors on the front facade. Local tradition holds that the house was originally only one room deep and that it was expanded to two rooms deep in 1812. Around 1830 Greek Revival-style elements were added, including a substantial door surround with pilasters and entablature to the front entry. At this time, unique floral stencils were added to a first floor room.

Sitting atop a rocky hill near the center of York Village, the Old York Gaol (pronounced "jail"), a National Historic Landmark, was constructed in stages. The first prison on the site, a plank structure, was finished in 1656 and demolished around 1720. By the early eighteenth century, freestanding buildings of the prison complex included a House of Correction (1707, for debtors and minor criminals), the new Stone Prison (1720), and Gaoler's Residence (1729). The buildings were sited around an open-air prison yard.

A rare example of an early eighteenth-century house in Maine, the John Tarr House sits on the south side of the Saco River. It is a one story, side-gabled structure, originally clapboard sided. The facade faces the river and contains a central entry door with two windows on either side. Typical of the Cape form, it was built with a large center chimney (since removed). A side ell extends to the north and a secondary entrance is located on the south elevation.

The First Parish Meeting House is the oldest public building in Biddeford and one of the oldest meeting houses in Maine. It is a single story, gable front structure, sheathed in clapboards. Its symmetrical facade contains two entry doors on the ground floor and a sash window in the gable. Both the window and doors are topped by a louvered pointed arch. It was built by Nathaniel Perkins, a local master builder, using hand hewn timbers. The building originally had a belfry and side galleries on the interior. These were removed along with the soundboard and the pulpit lowered in 1840.

Located south of US Route 202 and Route 137 on Main Street, Water Street, Neck Road, and Canton Street and west of China Lake, the China Village Historic District consists of 47 structures. Most of these structures are residential, but the district also includes a post office, church, commercial building, library, and two fraternal buildings. The Town of China was first surveyed in 1773 and 1774. It was originally known as Jones Plantation but incorporated in 1796 as Harlem. The town boundaries were refined to its current borders in 1818.

Located on State Highway 201, the Peacock Tavern is a timber and plank framed, two-story structure with a hipped roof and clapboard siding. The center doorway is flanked by sidelights and pilasters supporting a detailed entablature. The original facade consisted of an entryway framed by two windows on either side. Sometime during the nineteenth century an addition was added to the north side of the building with two more windows and a two-story ell. The tavern has long been a local landmark.

Found on Main Street near its intersection with Union Street, the U.S. Customs House is currently known as the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library. The Federal-style two-story brick building is rectangular in shape and has a low-pitched hipped roof. It sits on a granite foundation and has arched window and door openings. Originally built by the Kennebunk Bank of Arundel, the first floor housed the bank and beginning in 1815 the second floor held offices for U.S. customs agents.