Designated a National Historic Landmark, the McIntire Garrison is one of the most notable examples of a garrison remaining in Maine. Located just north of the York River in rural York County, the McIntire Garrison is a two-story side-gabled log building with an overhanging second story and a central brick chimney. The building has wood clapboard siding on the long sides and wood shingles on the ends. A central entry is located on the south elevation facing the river, which provided the primary means of transportation at its time of construction.

Henry Sweetser Burrage was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on January 7, 1837, the son of Jonathan Burrage and Mary Upton Burrage. He prepared for college at Pierce Academy and graduated from Brown University in 1861. After a year at Newton Theological Seminary, he enlisted as a private in the 36th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and rose to the rank of major. Wounded in the shoulder at Cold Harbor, he was captured at Petersburg and spent time in Libby Prison.

Edward Kalloch Gould was born in Rockland, Maine on September 28, 1865, the son of John L. Kalloch and Rosetta J. Gould as well as the adopted son of Stephen Gould. Edward Gould attended Rockland public schools and graduated from Rockland High School. After taking courses at Rockland Commercial College, he studied law for three years and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1888.

Earle Grey Shettleworth, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine on August 17, 1948, the son of Earle G. Shettleworth, Sr. and Esther Knudsen Shettleworth. He was educated in Portland public schools, graduating from Deering High School in 1966. He received a B.A. in Art History from Colby College in 1970, an M.A. in Architectural History from Boston University in 1979, and an L.H.D. from Bowdoin College in 2008.

Robert M. York was born in Wilton, Maine on June 10, 1915, the son of Maurice A. and Josephine Brown York. He graduated from Wilton Academy as valedictorian of the Class of 1933. He graduated from Bates College, Class of 1937, received a master's degree from Clark University in 1938, and a Ph.D. from Clark in 1941.

Thomas Morgan Griffiths was born in Braidwood, Illinois on April 6, 1888, the son of the Rev. Thomas Morgan Griffiths and Theodocia Williams Griffiths. He was educated in the schools of Dawn, Missouri and graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri in 1912. He then earned master's degrees from William Jewell College and Harvard University as well as a bachelor of divinity degree from Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York.

Augustus Freedom Moulton was born in Jay, Maine on May 1, 1848, the son of Freedom and Sarah Coffin Carter Moulton. From early childhood, he spent his life in Scarboro and Portland. He was educated in Scarboro public schools, Gorham Seminary, Saco High School, and Westbrook Seminary, from which he graduated in 1869. An 1873 graduate of Bowdoin College, he began practicing law in Portland in 1876. In 1927 he gave the college $200,000 to build the student union which bears his name.

Variously used for the manufacture and sale of furniture from the 1830s through the 1980s, this complex of buildings were creatively rehabilitated and placed back in service in late 2000. Individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places, this certified rehabilitation project is a successful example of mixed-use in a downtown location.

Designed by architects Francis H. Fassett and Fredrick A. Tompson, Old Westbrook High School was constructed in 1886 and is a landmark on Main Street in Westbrook. Vacant and deteriorating for years, the Westbrook Housing Authority saved this monumental Romanesque revival building by using Federal and State Rehabilitation Tax Credits in conjunction with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. This beautiful rehabilitation of the entire school complex created twenty-nine units of affordable senior housing in the heart of downtown Westbrook.

The Cummings Shoe Factory is individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its nearly 120 year participation in the shoe industry in Maine, once a cornerstone of the State?s economy. This certified rehabilitation project converted the large vacant mill building into forty-eight units of market rate rental housing.