Criterion A: Education

The West Auburn School is in the rural northwest section of the City of Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine. The gable-front, Greek Revival-style schoolhouse is significant at the local level under Criterion A for its association with patterns of education and under Criterion C for the distinctive architectural characteristics of a rural one room schoolhouse. The building represents the typical response to evolving educational practices which were often recommended if not mandated by the State of Maine.

Criterion A: Agriculture

Criterion A: Early Settlement

Criterion A: Law

Period of Significance: 1819 to 1882

Local Level of Significance

The Otisfield Town Pound is near the geographic center of Otisfield, Oxford County, Maine. The stone animal enclosure is near the early settlement centered on Bell Hill and is the only known pound for the town. Construction of the pound was approved at the 1818 town meeting, and it was constructed by the first pound keeper Stephen Knight in 1819.

Criterion A: Commerce

Criterion A: Industry

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1872 to 1960

Local Level of Significance

The Farwell Brothers Store is a functionally related group of three commercial buildings located along the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad line in the Town of Thorndike, Waldo County, Maine. The store was built ca. 1872 and served the community from then until 1960 as a general store with the mill building added ca. 1915 and the lumber shed added ca. 1920. The store was owned by O. J.

Criterion A: Education

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1926 to 1969

Local Level of Significance

The Thomas B. Reed School possesses integrity of design, location, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and meets Criteria A and C at the local level for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The period of significance extends from 1926, when the original school building was constructed, to 1969, the fifty-year cut off period for National Register listing.

Criterion A: Commerce

Criterion A: Social History

Period of Significance: ca. 1885 to 1940

Local Level of Significance

The ca. 1885 Old Red Store in the Village of Bernard in the Town of Tremont, Hancock County, Maine is an intact small-town grocery store that also served as post office and social gathering place. Originally housing the T.W. Jackson Market, the building was maintained in the same family as a store for fifty years.

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: ca. 1895 to 1969

Local Level of Significance

Camp Cinnamon was founded as a private hunting club in rural Norway, Oxford County, Maine. Hunting camps and clubs are common in northern Maine. Camp Cinnamon is a good example of a specific type of hunting camp: a single building with a local membership in a rural location relatively close to member's homes. The camp was visited by the entire membership periodically but also used by smaller sub-groups.

Criterion C: Architecture

Period of Significance: 1906

Local Level of Significance

The Mary E. is a two-masted, auxiliary schooner designed and built in 1906 by Thomas Hagan in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine. Designed as a 46' fishing schooner, she was used in various fisheries and as a coastal trader for more than fifty years before being converted to recreational use in 1965 after having been abandoned. In 2017-18 she was acquired by the Maine Maritime Museum and restored to her original design.

Criterion A: Education

Period of Significance: 1892 to 1926

Local Level of Significance

In 1892, the Town of Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine constructed the Sound Schoolhouse in the Village of Sound, replacing a cramped and deteriorating school with a new, up-to-date building where village children could be educated. The gable-front Sound Schoolhouse is an example of a vernacular one-room schoolhouse commonly found in Maine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Period of Significance: 1913

Criterion C: Architecture

Local Level of Significance

The Greene Cottage was built in 1913 at the southern tip of Basin Point in Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine. The bungalow was built as a summer cottage for a middle-class Boston family. The family purchased a lot along the Maine coast and hired a local contractor. The expansion of summer tourism along the Maine coast started after the Civil War and continued through the 1920s due to a generally strong economy, expanding leisure time and improved transportation networks.

Period of Significance: 1825 to 1969

Criterion A: Maritime History, Transportation

Criterion C: Architecture

Local Level of Significance

The Stage Island Monument is a Federal aid to navigation built in 1825 as a day beacon serving as a visual landmark for mariners. It marks the northern entry to Wood Island Harbor, a sheltered anchorage approximately midway between Portland, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This property is historically significant in York County on the local level.