Serving as a general store from its construction until the 1930s, Elden's Store is a rare example of a commercial brick building in a rural area from the early nineteenth century. The building is two-stories high with a side-gable roof. The brick is laid in English bond, a pattern of alternating the long and short sides of the brick. The gable ends are clapboard sided. The windows have multiple small panes and granite sills and lintels. The building sits on the corner of Long Plains Road and Haines Meadow Road and has two street facing sides.

The Dr. Moses Mason House is a good example of the Federal style. Built facing the Bethel Common, the house is side gabled with clapboard siding. The facade is symmetrical with a centered entry. The door features sidelight windows and is topped by an elliptical filled fanlight. Pilasters supporting a band of molding frame the entry. Two internal chimneys are placed on the rear side of the roof. The front hall and stairway of the house contains Rufus Porter style murals, attributed to Jonathan D. Poor, a nephew of Rufus Porter, a prolific mural painter.

The Bucknam House, located on Main Street, is a rectangular residence that stands at two stories tall and is sheathed in wood shingles. It has a side-gabled roof, thick central chimney, and little ornamentation, except for narrow pilasters around the central front door. The front door is also topped with a five-light transom and a projecting cornice. This early residence retains windows with numerous small panes of glass. John Bucknam built the house when Columbia Falls was largely unsettled.

The Brown-Pilsbury Double House, located on Franklin Street, is a two-story Federal-style frame building with clapboard sheathing and a gable roof. It is referred to as a double house because it housed two families with prominent entrances on the gable ends of the house. Both units are near identical with a tight spiral staircase near each entrance. Each exterior entry features an ornate door surround of capped pilasters and entablatures.

Positioned on a ridge above McWain Pond with a view of rocky fields and Mount Tire'm in eastern Waterford, the McWain-Hall House is a Federal-style building with minimal ornamentation. The side-gabled house has a large central brick chimney and its windows are irregularly spaced on the front faade. A narrow transom window is placed above the central front entry. The windows are modest in size and are composed of numerous small panes of glass. David McWain, the first European-American settler in Waterford, arrived here in 1775 and began acquiring land.

Maine's first United States Senator, John Holmes built this Federal-style mansion on Main Street in Alfred. The house sits on a granite foundation, stands two stories high, and has a low hipped roof with a central chimney. The front facade is classically symmetrical with a central front entry vestibule under a two-story columned porch. At the time of Holmes residence here, the fifteen-room dwelling had two formal rooms with elaborate woodwork, a circular staircase in the front hall, and vaulted ceilings on the second floor.

Outwardly unassuming, this house is thought to be one of the oldest in Vassalboro. The Farwell family built the house and many members are buried in a small family plot across Route 201 which is visible from the small dormer. The house remained in the Farwell family until the 1840s when it was conveyed to the Brown family. Several members of the Brown family served in the Maine State Legislature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Comprised of York Corner, York Village, and York Harbor, the York Historic District represents the town's evolution as a colonial trading center to a nineteenth-century tourist destination. The first European settlers arrived in York c.1630 and the village was centered on the northern bank of the York River. The town was incorporated in 1652, making it the second oldest town in Maine after Kittery. Like other towns, York experienced Native American attacks throughout the seventeenth century and was destroyed in the Raid on York in 1692.

Located nearly two miles north of Route 25 in rural Porter, the Old Meeting House is a two-story frame building that sits on a granite foundation. This structure, referred to as a church and a meetinghouse, served dual purposes over time - as religious sanctuary for congregations as well as for municipal purpose as a place for the townspeople to gather and make decisions for the future. The side-gabled roofed building is sheathed in clapboard siding and has a door on each end of the front faade. The interior is open with a three-sided gallery and original box pews.

Built in the Federal style with a Colonial-era ell, the Lord Mansion is one of the many impressive homes along Summer Street. The hip-roofed ell is the oldest part of the house and was built by Jonathan Banks c.1760. It is two stories with clapboard siding and connects to a large barn through a smaller side ell. Jonas Clark, a local judge, bought the property in 1789 and built the main Federal-style structure. It is two stories tall with a flat roof, set back from the road. The symmetrical facade is faced in flush sheathing while the other elevations are clapboard sided.