List of National Historic Landmarks in Maine

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This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in Maine. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.^[1] The state of Maine is home to 41 of these landmarks, displaying the state's maritime heritage, as well as literary, archeological, religious, and a wide array of other themes.

In addition, one site in Maine was designated a National Historic Landmark, and subsequently de-designated; this site appears in a separate table further below.

The table below lists all 41 of these sites, along with added detail and description.

[edit] Current NHLs

[2]	Landmark name[3]	Image	Year listed[3]	Locality[3][4]	County[3]	Description[5]
1	American Eagle (schooner)	image pending	1991	Rockland	Knox	Last sailing fishing schooner built in Gloucester, Massachusetts
2	James G. Blaine House		1964	Augusta	Kennebec	Built in 1833, official residence of the state since 1919
3	Bowdoin (schooner)		1989	Castine	Kennebec	Schooner built for Arctic exploration in 1921, currently a training ship
4	Parker Cleaveland House	image pending	2000	Brunswick	Cumberland	Home of Parker Cleaveland who conducted some of the earliest studies of mineralogy in the US. Known as the "Father of American Mineralogy", Cleaveland lived in this house from 1806 to 1858.
5	Cushnoc Archeological Site	image pending	1993	Augusta	Kennebec	Remains of a Plymouth Colony trading post
6	Neal Dow House	NRHP photos avail.	1974	Portland	Cumberland	Home of 1880 Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. president
7	Fort Halifax		1968	Winslow	Kennebec	Part of a fort: oldest blockhouse in the U.S.
8	Fort Kent	NRHP photos avail.	1973	Fort Kent	Aroostook	Associated with the Aroostook War
9	Fort Knox		1970	Prospect	Waldo	Granite fort, built during 1844-1869
10	Fort Western		1973	Augusta	Kennebec	Oldest wooden fort in the U.S.
11	Daniel Coit Gilman Summer House	NRHP photo avail.	1965	Northeast Harbor	Hancock	A home of Daniel Coit Gilman, leader of graduate education in the United States
12	Governor's House	NRHP photos avail.	1974	Togus	Kennebec	Surviving building from 1869 first Veterans' Home in the U.S.
13	Grace Bailey (schooner)	NRHP photo avail.	1991	Camden	Knox	A ship
14	Hamilton House	NRHP photos avail.	1970	South Berwick	York	A house
15	Harpswell Meetinghouse	HABS and NRHP photos avail.	1968	Harpswell Center	Cumberland	Church and town meeting hall, from 1757
16	Winslow Homer Studio		1965	Scarborough	Cumberland	NRHP photos avail.
17	Isaac H. Evans (schooner)	NRHP photos avail.	1991	Rockland	Knox	Maine windjammer
18	J. & E. Riggin (schooner)	image pending	1991	Rockland	Knox	[1]
19	Sarah Orne Jewett House		1991	South Berwick	York	[2]
20	Kennebec Arsenal	image pending	2000	Augusta	Kennebec	Munitions depot built during 1828-1838, size and location relating to the Northeast Boundary Controversy
21	Lady Pepperrell House		1960	Kittery Point	York	[3]
22	Lewis R. French (schooner)	image pending	1991	Rockland	Knox	[4]
23	McIntire Garrison House		1968	York	York	[5]
24	McLellan-Sweat Mansion	image pending	1970	Portland	Cumberland	[6]
25	Mercantile (schooner)	image pending	1991	Camden	Knox	[7]
26	Morse-Libby Mansion		1970	Portland	Cumberland	[8]
27	Nickels-Sortwell House	image pending	1970	Wiscasset	Lincoln	[9]
28	Norridgewock Archeological District	image pending	1993	Madison	Somerset	[10]
29	Old York Gaol		1968	York	York	[11]
30	Pemaquid Archeological Site		1993	Bristol	Lincoln	[12]
31	Pentagoet Archeological District	image pending	1998	Castine	Hancock	[13]
32	Portland Observatory		2006	Portland	Cumberland	[14]
33	Thomas B. Reed House		1975	Portland	Cumberland	[15]
34	Edwin Arlington Robinson House		1971	Gardiner	Kennebec	[16]
35	Roseway (schooner)		1997	Camden	Knox	[17]
36	Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village		1974	New Gloucester	Androscoggin	Founded in 1783, organized in 1794, this is the last active Shaker community in the United States. A representative collection of Shaker implements and furniture is housed in the buildings.
37	Stephen Taber (schooner)	image pending	1991	Rockland	Knox	[18]
38	Harriet Beecher Stowe House		1962	Brunswick	Cumberland	[19]
39	Tate House		1971	Stroudwater	Cumberland	[20]
40	Victory Chimes (schooner)	image pending	1997	Rockland	Knox	[21]
41	Wadsworth-Longfellow House		1962	Portland	Cumberland	[22]

[edit] Historic areas administered by the National Park Service

National Historic Sites, National Memorials, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There is just one of these in Maine. The National Park Service lists this site together with the NHLs in the state,^[6] It is:

	Landmark name	Image	Date established[7]	Location	County	Description
1	St. Croix Island International Historic Site		08 Jun 1949	Calais	Washington

[edit] Former NHLs in Maine

	Landmark name[8]	Image	Year listed	Locality	County	Description
1	Wickyup (Richard E. Byrd House) [9]		1970, withdrawn 1986 [9]	East Sullivan [9]	Hancock [9]	This house was the summer home of pioneer aviator and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd from 1937 until his death in 1957. Here he planned three Antarctic expeditions, wrote, and drafted what became the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. Wickyup was destroyed by fire in 1984. [9]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in Maine
• List of National Historic Landmarks by state
• Historic preservation
• National Register of Historic Places
• History of Maine

[edit] External links

Map of all coordinates
Export points of interest as KML
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• National Historic Landmark Program at the National Park Service
• Lists of National Historic Landmarks

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