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.

Period of Significance: 1918-1969

Criterion A: Entertainment/Recreation, Social History

Local Level of Significance

Merriconeag Grange is a vernacular building that has been, and continues to serve, as an important social and community center in Harpswell, Maine. It was built in 1918 by members of the Merriconeag Grange #425, established 1903, on the foundation of their former hall which burned in 1912.

Period of Significance: 1962-1969

Criterion A: Commerce

Criterion C: Art

Local level of significance

The Walking Man Sign in the Duck Pond Village section of Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine was built in 1962 along US 302 to advertise a nearby television repair and sales business. The Populuxe style sign is a good example of large, mechanized and illuminated roadside advertising designed to be visible to the fast moving automobile traffic of its day.

The former Town Office and Jail are located in Island Falls, Aroostook County, Maine. The small town is located in heavily wooded northern Maine in a relatively sparsely settled area. The building is locally significant under Criteria A for its association with town government. The building represents the small community's response to the loss by fire of the previous town office and many associated town records. The decorative concrete block and poured concrete construction ensured preservation of town records, and provided secure holding cells for local law enforcement.