Criterion A: Transportation
Criterion C: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1945-1953
Local Level of Significance
Hasey's Maine Stages Building at 490 Broadway in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places for local significance under Criterion A for association with transportation. The building served as a bus garage and terminal for Haseys Maine Stages, Inc. from 1945 until 1953. The building is associated with changes in transportation patterns of the period which saw a shift away from electric trolleys and passenger rail. Haseys Maine Stages provided the transportation link to sporting camps in the north woods and between outlying towns and the city of Bangor. Haseys Maine Stages Building at 490 Broadway is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C as a local example of Streamline Moderne style architecture. The style was commonly used for transportation facilities of the period and the building is a good example of the bus station/garage type. The period of significance is from the buildings construction in 1945 to 1953 when the building served as the Haseys Maine Stages bus garage and terminal.