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Lane Hall

Lane Hall is a later 20th-century neoclassical building serving as the principal workplace and headquarters of the central administration of Bates College, located at 2 Andrews Road in Lewiston, Maine. It has been the principle administrative headquarters of every Bates president since Thomas Hedley Reynolds in 1964. Lane Hall was named after George Lane Jr., who served as treasurer of the college and secretary of the corporation. Lane overlooks the Historic Quadrangle of the college and protrudes from Lake Andrews. History The construction of the Lane Hall began with the laying of the cornerstone in 1963, although there was no formal ceremony. The principal façade of the Lane Hall, from the north, is of four floors and eleven bays. The ground floor is hidden by a raised carriage ramp and parapet, thus the façade appears to be of three floors. The central three bays are behind a prostyle portico (this was a later addition to the hall, built in 1970) serving, thanks to the carriage ramp, as a porte cochere. The hall's southern façade is a combination of the Palladian and neoclassical styles of architecture. It is of three floors, all visible. The ground floor is rusticated in the Palladian fashion. At the center of the façade is a neoclassical projecting triangular point of four bays. The point is flanked by two bays, the windows of which, as on the north façade, have alternating segmented and pointed pediments at first-floor level. The bows cover two staircase levels leading to a colonnaded loggia, next to Pettengill Hall. Lane Hall was constructed at a totaled cost of $630,000 ($4.8 million in 2016 U.S. dollars.) See also History of Bates College List of Bates College people References Further reading
Sophie May House

The Sophie May House is a historic house at 22 Sophie May Lane in Norridgewock, Maine. Built in 1845, it is an excellent local example of Greek Revival architecture, with a classical four-columned Greek temple front. The house is most notable as the long-time home of Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833-1906), who wrote a series of popular children's books under the pen name "Sophie May". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Description and setting The Sophie May House is set between Sophie May Lane and the Kennebec River to the south, just outside the main village of Norridgewock. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a front-facing gable roof, which projects beyond the front facade and is supported by four smooth Doric columns, with a fully pedimented flush-boarded gable end above. The main facade is three bays wide, with full-length windows in the two left bays and the entrance in the rightmost. The interior follows a typical side-hall plan, with the main parlor to the left, and kitchen and service area in ells attached to the rear of the house. The house was built in 1845 by Cullen Sawtelle, a native son who studied law at Bowdoin College and represented the area in Congress in the 1840s. In 1848 Sawtelle sold the house to Asa Clarke. Clarke's daughter, Rebecca, was educated at Norridgewock Female Academy and taught primary school in Illinois until advancing deafness forced her return. From 1861 until her death in 1906 she lived here, where she wrote more than forty volumes of children's stories, using realistic settings and characterizations drawn in part from her hometown, and in contrast to the prevailing style of didactic and moralizing children's literature. Rebecca's sister Sarah Jones Clarke, who was also a well-known author under the name Penn Shirley, lived in the house until her death in 1929. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerset County, Maine References
William Sewall House

The William Sewall House is a historic house at 1027 Crystal Road in Island Falls, Maine. Built in 1865, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Greek Revival style in a rural setting. The house is notable as the longtime home of a second-generation resident of the community, William Wingate Sewall, who had a long and enduring friendship with Theodore Roosevelt, a regular guest until 1878. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is still in the hands of Sewall descendants, operated as a yoga retreat center. Description and history The Sewall House is located on the north side of Crystal Road (Maine State Route 159) just west of the Island Falls Post Office in the village center. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof, twin interior chimneys, and clapboard siding. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the south-facing front and around the right side, supported by square posts. The front entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters. A two-bay two-story garage extends to the right, connecting the main house to a carriage barn. One of the first settlers of the town of Island Falls was Levi Sewall, who arrived in 1842. His tenth child, William Wingate Sewall, was born in 1845, and was the community's first native-born resident. The younger Sewall made his home in the town for his entire life, working on Maine's logging drives until he was 75. This house was built for Sewall by Osgood Pingree, a neighbor. Sewall's house was a well-known stop for hunters who worked and recreated in the Maine woods. In 1872 Theodore Roosevelt, then a somewhat sickly young man, paid a visit, and established a friendship with Sewall that lasted until Roosevelt's death in 1919. Roosevelt last visited Sewall in Maine in 1878, but invited him on one of his expeditions into the Dakota Territory in 1884. Roosevelt stayed in the house three different times. Yoga retreat The house remains in the hands of Sewall's descendants. Since 1997 the house has been operated by yoga instructor Donna Amrita Davidge as a yoga retreat center. Davidge is a great-granddaughter of Sewall. The menu at the yoga retreat is vegetarian and vegan. Specific yoga retreats are offered for groups such as women, writers, and artists. In 2023, USA Today named Sewall House #2 on the list of 10 Best Yoga Retreats in the US. The yoga retreat operates from May through October. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Aroostook County, Maine References External links Sewall House web site
West Lebanon Historic District

The West Lebanon Historic District encompasses a rural village center in Lebanon, Maine. Built over a period of less than 100 years between the 1770s and 1870s, the small village at the junction of West Lebanon, Shapleigh, North Rochester, Orrills Hill, and Jim Grant Roads is a well-preserved example of a 19th-century rural Maine village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Description and history The town of Lebanon was established in 1733, and was only modestly developed prior to the 1770s. The village of West Lebanon has its origins in that time, centered on a fork in the main north-south road running west of the town center. It was at that fork (now Shapleigh and Orrills Hill Roads) that Daniel Legro opened a tavern, and his brother Thomas built a farmstead, giving the village its early name of "Legro's Corner". From this modest beginning the village grew, acquiring a Free Will Baptist church in 1801 (the current one, still standing, dates to 1832). In 1842 the local residents funded the establishment of a private academy, whose main building, built in 1849, became the town high school in the 20th century, and now serves a variety of community functions. The district encompasses about 55 acres (22 ha) surrounding the junction of the five roads at the center of the village. Most of the buildings in the district were built before 1850, and only one was built in the 20th century. The houses are typically Federal or Greek Revival in style, 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height, of wood frame construction with clapboard siding. Some houses were enlarged and modestly restyled in the 1860s and 1870s. The district also includes the site of an early tannery. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine References
W.D. Crooker House

The William Donnell Crooker House is an historic house at 71 South Street in Bath, Maine, United States. Built in 1850 by the prominent local builder and designer Isaac D. Cole, it is a distinctive example of late Greek Revival architecture. The Crooker family was involved with Bath's shipbuilding industry. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 1979. Description and history The Crooker House stands at the northwest corner of South and Middle Streets, in what was in the mid-19th century a fashionable upland neighborhood on the Bath's south side. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and ells extending the main block to the north side. The house is oriented facing east (toward Middle Street), and has a two-story colonnade of fluted Corinthian columns across its five-bay front facade. The main entrance is in the center bay, flanked by sidelight windows, and there is a glass door with flanking sidelights above it on the second floor, giving access to a wrought iron balcony. The main block is encircled by an entablature, and there are gabled dormers in both roof faces, featuring fully pedimented gables and three-part Palladian windows. The house was built in 1850 by Isaac D. Cole, a prominent local builder and architect. The house is distinctive among high-style Greek Revival houses in Maine for the use of Corinthian columns, and for their placement on the roof side of the house instead of the gable. It was built for William D. Crooker, whose family was prominent in local businesses, operating a shipyard and merchant ships as well as lumber interests. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Sagadahoc County, Maine References
Reversing Falls Park

Reversing Falls Park is a municipal park in Pembroke, Maine. It is located at Mahar Point, the northern point of a narrows separating Dennys Bay from Cobscook Bay in far eastern Maine. The narrows are subject to a reversal of current twice a day, owing to the area's unusually high tides. In addition to viewing this action, the park is also well suited for wildlife viewing. The area in the park vicinity is also archaeologically sensitive, as the site of Native American settlements in the area's prehistory. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Maine References
Pownal Cattle Pound

The Pownal Cattle Pound is a historic stone animal pound in Bradbury Mountain State Park, Pownal, Maine. Built in 1818, it is one of a modest number of these once-common structures left in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Description and history The Pownal Cattle Pound is located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) northeast of the center of Pownal, on the northwest side of Maine State Route 9. It is located in Bradbury Mountain State Park, which the road passes through, with the eponymous mountain rising north of the structure. The pound is a rectangular stone structure, built of dry-laid fieldstone, with an opening near the northeast corner. The walls currently vary between 4.5 feet (1.4 m) and 5.5 feet (1.7 m) in height, but were probably originally 6 feet (1.8 m) in height; the difference is due in part to collapse, and in part to use of some of the stone in local road projects in the 1950s. As built, the walls were 4 feet (1.2 m) thick at the base and 18 inches (0.46 m) thick at the top, and would have been topped by a timber beams. The opening was originally topped by a long granite lintel, which now lies on the ground inside the enclosure, and would have been closed off by an iron gate. Since early colonial days, most New England communities used animal pounds as a means to pen in stray livestock until it could be recovered by its owner. The town of Pownal, incorporated in 1808, hired John Tyler to construct this pound for $50 in 1817; he completed it the following year. The land on which it was located belonged to the Cotton family, who owned Bradbury Mountain and the surrounding area, and whose house stood nearby until it burned down in 1929. Thomas Cotton was hired as the town's first poundkeeper. The pound was used until 1891, by which time changes in technology (mainly the advent of barbed wire) and a reduction in farming had rendered it obsolete. At the time of its National Register listing in 2004, it was one of about twenty such structures left in the state. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine References
Jacob Randall House

The Jacob Randall House is a historic house on Lawrence Road in Pownal, Maine. Built about 1800, it is a fine local example of Federal period architecture executed in brick. It was built for a prominent local citizen. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Description and history The Jacob Randall House stands in rural northern Pownal, on the west side of Lawrence Road, the principal north–south road leading from Pownal toward Lewiston. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a side gable roof, two internal chimneys, and a granite foundation. Its main facade is five bays wide, with its entrance in the central bay, recessed with a fanlight. The sides are two bays wide, and there is a single-story addition extending to the left side of later construction. In 1796, Jacob Randall, a native of Weymouth, Massachusetts, purchased over 100 acres (40 ha) of land here, and had this house built. His property spanned the nearby Chandler River, which he dammed around 1800, establishing a sawmill and gristmill. When Pownal was incorporated in 1808, Randall was one of its first town selectmen, a seat he held nearly continuously until his death in 1836. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine References
Moses Carleton House

The Moses Carlton House is a historic house on Hollywood Boulevard in Alna, Maine. Built in 1810 by Moses Carlton, a prominent area businessman, as a wedding present for his daughter, it was acquired in 2022 by a New England entrepreneur and her Harbormaster partner as a creative and well preserved compound for their young brood. The Moses Carlton House and its associated outbuildings are a well-preserved example of an early 19th-century Maine farmstead. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Description and history The Moses Carlton House stands in a rural area east of the village of Head Tide, on 37 acres (15 ha) overlooking the Sheepscot River. The house and its associated outbuildings stand among fields on the north side of Hollywood Boulevard, about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) east of Maine State Route 94. The house is surrounded by two barns and a carriage shed, all of 19th-century construction. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main facade faces south, and has a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window and corniced entablature. A single-story ell extends to the rear. The interior follows a center-chimney plan, with a narrow winding stair in the entry vestibule, with parlors on either side of the chimney, and the old kitchen behind it. Moses Carlton was one of the leading businessmen of nearby Wiscasset, which was the largest shipping port east of Boston in the 1790s. Carleton had five daughters, and built a house for each one, either in Alna or neighboring Whitefield. This house was probably built sometime between 1796 and 1810, for his daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Dole, who were married in 1796 and known to be occupying the house in 1810. It was sold out of the Carleton family in 1866. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine References
Stephen Coffin House

The Stephen Coffin House is a historic house at 170 Main Street in downtown Damariscotta, Maine. Built in the first decade of the 19th century, it is a fine local example of Federal style architecture, and is further distinctive for its ell, which is an early surviving example of an attached shop. The house served for many years as home to the Skidompha Public Library, and is now in commercial use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Description and history The Stephen Coffin House stands on the north side of Damariscotta's Main Street downtown area, and is sandwiched between the Lincoln Theater to the west, and the modern facilities of the Skidompha Public Library to the east. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance set in a recess that is framed by paired pilasters and a corniced entablature. The building's front corners are pilastered. Granite steps lead to the entrance, and are flanked at the sidewalk by a low wooden fence. A period two-story ell extends from the western rear corner, and a modern ell extends from the eastern rear corner. The interior retains a number of original period features, but has also had significant alterations, although most of these have been sympathetic in character. The house's exact construction date is shrouded in mystery, due to the number and type of land transactions Stephen Coffin engaged in between 1803 and 1807. It was almost certainly standing by 1807, and may have been built as early as 1803, its traditionally ascribed construction date. Coffin was a local merchant, and apparently operated his business out of the basement of this house. The western ell was probably built by Coffin when his business had outgrown the basement. In 1922 the house was purchased by the Skidompha Library Association and the Damariscotta Women's Club, housing the library on the ground floor and the Women's Club facilities on the second. The building was enlarged by the eastern ell in the 1980s, and the library moved to its new facility next door in 2001. The building is now in commercial use. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine References
Dodge Point Preserve

Dodge Point Preserve is a state-owned conservation area in Newcastle, Maine. It includes 500 acres (200 ha) of land, with 8,000 feet (2,400 m) of frontage on the Damariscotta River. Public facilities include hiking trails and a dock. The preserve was established in 1989, and is managed by a partnership between the state and the Damariscotta River Association. Features The preserve is located in southern Newcastle, with River Road passing through the western third of the property. A parking area and trailhead with informational kiosk is located at the road's northern entry into the reserve. The landscape is dominated by red pine, dating to the land's use as a tree farm, and still subject to occasional harvest by the state. There are more than 5 miles (8.0 km) of marked hiking trails. Near the northern boundary lies Ice Pond, a site historically used for ice harvesting. One section of the shoreline is called Brickyard Beach, for the large number of bricks and brickmaking detritus found there, left from 18th and 19th-century brickmaking operations. History The preserve's land has seen human activity since prehistoric times; at least one prehistoric archaeological site (now listed on the National Register of Historic Places has been found there. In the 19th century, the land was cleared for farming, resulting in the creation of the stone walls found throughout the property. In the 20th century, the property was used as a tree farm prior to its acquisition by the state in 1989. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine References
Jefferson Cattle Pound

The Jefferson Cattle Pound is a historic animal pound in Jefferson, Maine. Built in 1829, it is one of the state's best-preserved stone pounds. It is located on the south side of Gardiner Road (Maine State Route 126), about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) west of its junction with Maine State Route 213. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Description and history The Jefferson Cattle Pound is located in central northern Jefferson, a rural community in northern Lincoln County. It stands on the south side of Gardiner Road in a rural wooded area. It is a circular fieldstone structure about 40 feet (12 m) in diameter, with walls about 7 feet (2.1 m) high. The inside face of the wall is nearly vertical, while the outside is angled, giving the wall a thickness at its base of about 4 feet (1.2 m) and about 3 feet (0.91 m) at its top. Facing the road is an opening about 4.5 feet (1.4 m) wide, formed by roughly squared granite blocks. The opening is topped at a height of about 5.5 feet (1.7 m) by a shaped granite lintel that is about 8 feet (2.4 m) long and 1 foot (0.30 m) thick. There are three iron bolts mounted in the stones on the west side, which originally would have held a sturdy wooden gate. Remnants of lower walls extend from the opening toward the road, at a widening angle. These were historically joined to a stone wall that lined the roadway. The pound was built for the town by Silas Noyes, a local resident, in 1828 at a cost of $28. Prior to its construction, the town's pound keepers (of which there were seven at one time) had kept stray animals on their own properties. The pound remained in use until about 1888, when the town office of pound keeper was discontinued. Changes in the demographics of farm animals, and the increasing use of barbed wire to limit movements of animals led to a decline in the need for such a public facility. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 2004, it was one of the best-preserved of 21 surviving animal pounds in the state. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine References
Knight-Corey House

The Knight-Corey House is a historic house on Corey Lane in Boothbay, Maine. Built in 1787, it is a high quality local example of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Description and history The Knight-Corey House stands in the village center of Boothbay, occupying a triangular lot formed on the northeast by Back River Road and on the south by Corey Lane. It is a large 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame structure, with a gabled roof, large central chimney, clapboard siding, and fieldstone foundation. Its main facade faces south, and is a symmetrical five bays across. The centered entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a Federal style fan. A 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame ell extends to the west of the main block, joining it to a barn. The interior has restored Federal period features, including five working fireplaces, gunstock posts, and a distinctive enclosed circular staircase. The house was built in 1787 by Nicholas Knight, on a site previously occupied by an inn established by one of the area's early settlers. From 1974 to 1990 the house was home to the Boothbay Theatre Museum, an extensive collection of theatrical memorabilia collected by Franklyn Lenthall, featuring large numbers of items associated with actors Edwin Booth and Sarah Bernhardt. The museum was closed in 1990 and its collections were auctioned off. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine References