This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.[1]
There are 244 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 12 National Historic Landmarks. 149 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks, are located outside Portland, and are listed here, while the properties and districts in Portland are listed separately. Three once-listed properties outside Portland have been removed.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 12, 2024.[2]
Androscoggin - Aroostook - Cumberland - Franklin - Hancock - Kennebec - Knox - Lincoln - Oxford - Penobscot - Piscataquis - Sagadahoc - Somerset - Waldo - Washington - York |
Current listings
Portland
Outside Portland
Former listings
[3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Atlantic House | July 10, 1979 (#79000134) | October 13, 1989 | S of Scarborough on Kirkwood Rd. |
Scarborough | Demolished in 1988. | |
2 | Babb's Bridge | September 7, 1972 (#09000088) | March 21, 2023 | Over the Presumpscot River, west of River Rd. and east of Cane Rd. 43°45′58″N 70°26′53″W / 43.7661°N 70.4480°W |
Gorham | Destroyed by arsonist on May 6, 1973.[7] Current bridge is a replica built in 1976. | |
3 | Barrows-Scribner Mill | March 26, 1976 (#76000090) | August 1, 1986 | Southeast of Harrison on Scribner's Mill Rd. 44°05′08″N 70°36′21″W / 44.085556°N 70.605833°W |
Harrison | Extensively damaged by flooding and heavy snow; has been partially rebuilt | |
4 | Percival P. Baxter House | April 23, 1973 (#73002282) | December 1, 1973 | 61 Deering St. |
Gorham | Birthplace of Percival Proctor Baxter, 53rd Governor of Maine. | |
5 | Friends School | June 24, 1996 (#96000650) | December 21, 2020 | Behind the town offices on State Route 121 44°00′15″N 70°31′24″W / 44.004093°N 70.523261°W |
Casco | Destroyed by arsonists in 2018.[8] |
See also
References
- ↑ The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
- ↑ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved January 12, 2024.
- 1 2 Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
- ↑ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly Lists 2017" (PDF). National Park Service. 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2020 – via nps.gov.
- ↑ "Fire destroys covered bridge". Morning Sentinel. May 7, 1973. p. 2. Retrieved March 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Casco arson destroys historic schoolhouse, trove of artifacts; 2 charged". 23 April 2018.