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U.S. Post Office-Bar Harbor Main

The U.S. Post Office-Bar Harbor Main is a historic post office building at 55 Cottage Street in Bar Harbor, Maine. This handsome granite Classical Revival building was one of twelve post offices built in 1909, and is reflective of the government's trend at that time to use classical architecture as a way to express democratic ideals and institutions. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Description and history The Bar Harbor Post Office stands on the north side of Cottage Street, just west of its junction with Federal Street and on the fringe of the main village's central business district. It is a substantial single-story structure, built out of Maine granite. Its main facade faces south, and is five bays wide, with banded pilasters, topped by medallions, separating the bays. The outer four bays have paired sash windows topped by keystones. The main entrance is in the central bay, surrounded by a stonework arch and topped by a triangular pediment. The building has a strong cornice line, topped by a parapet. Behind the parapet is a low-pitch hip roof pierced by three vaulted-arch dormers. The building's public lobby space is richly decorated with terrazzo marble flooring, marble wainscoting, and heavy woodwork surrounds for the interior doors and service windows. The ceiling has ornamental plaster decoration. Bar Harbor's post office was designed in 1908 by James Knox Taylor, the supervising architect of the United States Department of the Treasury, and was completed in 1909. Its construction was authorized by Tarsney Act and the Omnibus Building Act of 1902, and its individualized design was reflective of the government's return to the use of Classical styling as an expression of democratic ideals and institutions. The building is located in an area that was hard hit by Bar Harbor's devastating 1947 fire. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine List of United States post offices References External links Media related to United States Post Office (Bar Harbor, Maine) at Wikimedia Commons
Greenwood Cattle Pound

The Greenwood Cattle Pound is an animal pound located on Greenwood Road, 0.3 miles (0.48 km) east of Maine State Route 219 in Greenwood, Maine. Completed in 1836, the roughly square stone structure is a reminder of the town's agrarian past. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. Description and history The town of Greenwood was settled in the late 19th century and incorporated in 1816, roughly organized around three large land grants. It was an agricultural area, and like many of the period, the issue of stray livestock was a significant one. In 1835, the town voted to approve the construction of an animal pound "forty feet Square inside", with walls "five feet high with A Wooden Cap piece, [...] well hewed and well put on"; this structure was apparently complete the following year. The site selected was located just north of what was then the civic center of the town. Greenwood City, as that area was known, was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1862, and the economic and civic focus of the town shifted to Locke Mills, where textile mills and the railroad were located. The pound's importance declined after the invention of barbed wire made the fencing of pasturage economically feasible, and no pound masters are recorded after 1871. Greenwood's agrarian economy started to give way to recreational activities around the turn of the 20th century. The pound as seen today consists of stone walls roughly in a square, set near the road and surrounded on the other three sides by woods. The northern and western walls are both 44 feet (13 m), while the eastern wall is 45 feet (14 m) and the southern one is 42 feet (13 m). The walls are constructed out of random fieldstone, mostly granite, and its interior walls were dressed. They were originally constructed to be 5 feet (1.5 m) wide at the base, tapering down to 2.5 feet (0.76 m) at a height of 5 feet. Slumping and collapse of some of the wall sections has lowered the wall height and increased its width. There are holes at intervals, indicating where posts were located to support the wooden cap. The entrance to the pound is at the south end of the west wall. There is no indication of a gate; a stone that probably served as a lintel over the opening rests against the wall nearby. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Oxford County, Maine References
H. Hudson Law Office

The H. Hudson Law Office is a historic commercial building on Hudson Avenue in the center of Guilford, Maine. Built c. 1867, it is an architecturally distinctive small Italianate/Second Empire structure, which was used by two generations of lawyers in the Hudson family as a law office. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Description and history The Hudson Law Office building is located near the center of Guilford, on the west side of Hudson Avenue a short way south of its junction with Maine State Route 150. It is a wood-frame structure, 1+1⁄2 stories in height, with a flared slate mansard roof, wooden clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. Its main (east-facing) facade is three bays wide, with sash windows in the outer bays and the entrance in the center. The windows are topped by lintels with an entablature and carved woodwork above. The main entrance is sheltered by a hood with ornately carved brackets. There are two dormers above, with gable roofs topped by finials, and decorative carvings on the sides. The building is one of the most architecturally sophisticated buildings in the rural community. The office was built c. 1867 by Henry Hudson, a prominent lawyer who conducted his practice in Guilford from 1849 until his death in 1877. His son, also a lawyer, continued to use the office until his retirement in 1919. After undergoing a variety of other uses in the 20th century, it was once again made into a law office in the 1970s. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Piscataquis County, Maine References
Bloomfield Academy (Skowhegan, Maine)

The Bloomfield Academy is a historic former school building at 33 Main Street in Skowhegan, Maine. (It is adjacent to the former First Baptist Church, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places). Built in 1840 by a local master builder, it is a fine Greek Revival structure, and a reminder of the area's early educational history. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Description and history The Bloomfield Academy is a two-story brick structure with a gable roof, granite trim, and a granite foundation. It is topped by a two-stage tower, whose first stage is a plain clapboarded square with a simple cornice, and whose second stage has arched louvered openings flanked by pilasters, with an entablature and cornice above. The main (east-facing) facade is three bays wide, with brick piers dividing them. There is a double-door entry in the center, sheltered by an extended hip-roofed hood. The flanking bays have sash windows at both levels, while the second level above the entry as a double sash window. The gable end above is clad in clapboards, and has a semi-oval window in its center. The school that became Bloomfield Academy was chartered in 1807 as Canaan Academy, a private school. It was renamed in 1819 when the town it was in was renamed, but it retained that name when Bloomfield was annexed to Skowhegan in 1861. The school's first building was a wood-frame structure, which this building replaced in 1840. The builder was Asa Dyer, a noted local brickmaker and master builder. The school was eventually merged into the Skowhegan public schools, and its building is now owned by the Trustees of Bloomfield Academy. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerset County, Maine References
Hancock County Jail

The former Hancock County Jail is located at 40 State Street in Ellsworth, the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, United States. Built in 1885–86, it has a well-appointed living space for the jailer in the front, and a series of cells in the back. It was operated as a jail until the early 1970s, and is now home to the Ellsworth Historical Society, which operates it as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 for its architectural and historical significance. Description and history The former Hancock County Jail is on the west side of State Street, between the Hancock County Courthouse to the north and the Ellsworth Public Library to the south. Its lot is bounded on the west by the Union River. The jail is a 2+1⁄2-story brick and granite building, with a dormered hip roof and a slightly elevated granite foundation. The front facade is five bays wide, with the three on the right projecting slightly and topped by a large gable. The outer bays consists of closely spaced pairs of windows, while that in the center has the main entry and a single sash window above. The gable has a Palladian window outlined in a brick arch. On the north and south facades the distinction between the jailer's residence (the front) and the jail portion (the rear) of the building is evident. The interior of the jailer's residence has a central hall plan, with four major rooms on each floor, and a central stairwell with an elegantly turned railing and newel post. The parlor and dining room are well-appointed, with decorative fireplace surrounds. The room at the northwest served as the jailer's office, and has a separate entrance to the outside and access to the jail through a heavy metal door. Other rooms at the back of the residence also have "wicket" openings, coverable by heavy metal fixtures, through which the jailer could monitor and communicate with the prisoners. The rear of the building has thick granite exterior walls, and houses fourteen cells divided by brick walls. The cells are 6 by 10 feet (1.8 m × 3.0 m), with 8-foot (2.4 m) ceilings. The jail was the second built for the county. The county hired Portland architect Francis H. Fassett to draft plans in 1885, and the building was completed the following year. It is one of several surviving county jails in Maine which include both cells and jailer's quarters. The facility served as a jail until the early 1970s; it is not known how many jailers or county sheriffs resided in the jailer's quarters, due in part to the destruction of county records by a fire at the adjacent courthouse in 1933. The last county sheriff prior to the jail's closure converted the office into an evidence locker, and did not live on the premises. The building is now home to the Ellsworth Historical Society, which rescued it from demolition in 1980. The museum is generally open on Thursdays and Saturdays in July and August, or by appointment. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine References External links Ellsworth Historical Society Archived April 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
Ellsworth Power House and Dam

The Ellsworth Power House and Dam is a hydroelectric power generation facility on the Union River in Ellsworth, Maine. The dam, located just north of downtown Ellsworth, is also known as the Union River Dam, and impounds the river to create Leonard Lake, named for project's engineer, James Leonard. The powerhouse is a Renaissance Revival building located at the western end of the dam. The power plant, built in 1907, was one of the first peaking power plants built in the state, and the hollow concrete dam is one of the highest hollow (or Ambursen-type) buttress dams ever built, having been described as "the highest power dam in New England" in 1928. The facility was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, where it is currently listed. Description The Ellsworth Dam is located between two bluffs which flank Maine's Union River, and rise to a height of more than 100 feet (30 m). The dam consists of a series of buttresses, each set on a schist bedrock ledge, three feet thick, and spaced about 15 feet (4.6 m) apart, which provide support for two large slabs of steel-reinforced concrete that span the river between the bluffs. The dam is 71 feet (22 m) in height, with a spillway 60 feet (18 m) long. The schist ledge ensures the longevity of the dam. The power station is located at the base of the dam on the west bank of the river. It is a 1+1⁄2-story structure built out of concrete blocks, with a red tile gabled roof. The Renaissance Revival structure has round-arch windows which are connected by a stone belt course, and there are Palladian windows in the gable ends. An addition on the building's rear was built with similar styling. The Ellsworth Dam produces 29,907 megawatt-hours per year as of 2012, and is licensed to supply about 30,000 megawatt-hours per year, which is 1% of Maine's hydropower. It is one of the 118 power-generating dams in Maine as of 2016. The flow of water at the Ellsworth Dam is controlled by the Graham Lake Dam, which created Graham Lake. History The power station was built in 1907 by the Bar Harbor and Union River Power Company, to designs by its engineer, James Leonard. The company was merged in 1925 into the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, now part of Emera. Later, the plant was sold to Penobscot Hydro, and then to PPL in 1999. The plant was acquired by Black Bear Hydro in 2009 from PPL, and sold to Brookfield Partners in 2014. The dam was in the process of being relicensed as of 2012; its most recent permit, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 1987, was due to expire in 2017. However, public concern about fish passage and water quality, caused the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to delay issuing a new permit. The new expiration date is April 2020. (The dam is no longer hollow. During the 1990s. the FERC required installation of post-tensioned anchors deep into ledge and the filling of the hollow dam with concrete, in order to increase dam safety.) See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine References
Acadian Village (Van Buren, Maine)

The Acadian Village is a museum of Acadian heritage on United States Route 1 in Van Buren, Maine. The museum includes a complex of six historic buildings (five authentic 19th-century structures, one a careful modern reproduction) in which the life and work of 19th-century Acadians is showcased; this complex has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum is open daily between June and September. Buildings In addition to a split-log visitor center built in 1976, the museum includes five wood-frame structures built in the mid-19th century: three houses, a schoolhouse, and a blacksmith's shop. The church, a rough log structure also built in 1976, is a reproduction of a typical 18th-century Acadian church. All of the buildings are either one or 1+1⁄2 stories in height, with gabled roofs. They are built using either log construction or wood framing. The Morneault House, for example, is a log structure with the logs exposed inside, and is finished on the outside with clapboards. It served as an early post office in the region. The Village Schoolhouse is a wood-frame structure, built in 1875, and is also finished with clapboards. It was originally located in Hamlin, and is believed to be the oldest schoolhouse in the region. These buildings were not originally located at this site, having been moved from elsewhere in the region by the museum's organizing body, L'Heritage Vivant. They represent surviving elements of early French-American Acadian culture, which originally settled the area in the 1780s, and remained through a border dispute between Maine and New Brunswick in the first half of the 19th century. When the border dispute was resolved without bloodshed with the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the Acadian community was divided between the two jurisdictions. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Aroostook County, Maine References External links Museum web site Archived September 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
Jesup Memorial Library

Jesup Memorial Library is the public library of Bar Harbor, Maine. It is located in an architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival building at 34 Mount Desert Street in the town's main village. The building was built in 1910-11, donated to the community by Mrs. Morris K. Jesup in memory of her late husband, both of them longtime summer residents of the area, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 for its architecture. Architecture and history The Jesup Library is set on the south side of Mount Desert Street (Maine State Route 3), about one block west of Bar Harbor's village green. It is a single-story brick building, with a slate hip roof. Its front facade is five bays wide, with a centered entrance recessed in a limestone arch flanked by paired pilasters, and a medallion above the doorway depicting an open book. The flanking bays have sash windows topped by rounded limestone panels with bullseye insets. The roof cornice is modillioned, and a pair of chimneys rise from the interior. The windows on the sides have a similar treatment to those on the front. An ell extends from the center of the rear, giving the building a T shape. Bar Harbor's first library was organized by summer residents in 1875, and was at first a very small affair, operating out of people's homes before a small library building was built in 1877. By the early 1900s the library collection had grown to more than 8,000 volumes. Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, a longtime Bar Harbor summer resident, funded the $70,000 to build this building, and gave a $50,000 endowment for its maintenance. It was designed by the New York City firm of Delano and Aldrich and built in 1910-11. Gallery See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine References External links Jesup Library web site
Dudley's Corner School House

The Dudley's Corner School House is a historic former school and civic building at the junction of Rosies Court (formerly Parkman Road) and Dudley Corner Roads in Skowhegan, Maine. With a possible construction date as early as 1804, was Skowhegan's first site for town meetings and elections, also seeing use as a school and church. It was used primarily as a school between 1849 and 1921, and has been used since then by community groups. The modest Greek Revival building is the least-altered of Skowhegan's surviving 19th-century district schools, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Description and history The Dudley's Corner School is set on a grassy triangle of land bounded by Rosies Court (formerly part of Parkman Road prior to a bridge closure), Dudley Corner Road, and United States Route 2, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Skowhegan village center. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite slab foundation. A single brick chimney rises from the north end of the building. The main entrance is off-center on the south side, with a transom window overhead that has elliptical muntins. There are two sash windows on each of the other three sides of the building. The doorway leads into a small vestibule area, which then opens into a single large chamber. Three walls have vertical wainscoting with plaster on lath above, while the fourth wall is completely finished in tapered wooden boards. The ceiling is plastered. The room shows evidence of repeated alteration. The first school building at this site was constructed in 1804. It is unclear whether the present building is a replacement or a rehabilitation of that first building, since records pertaining work performed in 1835 are unclear. According to a local history, the Dudley's Corner School was the site at which most town meetings and elections were held between 1828 and 1848, and also housed meetings of the First Christian Church before it moved into the village. Between 1849 and 1921, the building served the community as a school. It was used as a function space in the 1930s and 1940s by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and more recently by local Boy Scout organizations. It continues to be owned by the town. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerset County, Maine References
Eagle Lake Tramway

The Eagle Lake Tramway is a historic timber-transport mechanism in the remote North Maine Woods in northeastern USA. The tramway, built in 1902 and operated until 1907, transported timber across a neck of land between Eagle Lake and Chamberlain Lake, with one end eventually becoming the eastern terminus of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad in 1927. The remnants of the tramway and rail station were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Tramway Historic District in 1979. The tramway is part of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, a Maine state park. Description and history The remote northern interior of Maine was in the 19th-century developed as a major logging region. Because the provincial government of New Brunswick began charging tariffs for timber floated down the Saint John River, American logging interest sought ways to divert timber into the Penobscot River watershed. This was accomplished by the placement of dams in a number of places on Chamberlain Lake and Eagle Lake, whose waters historically reached the Saint John via the Allagash River, which resulted in their waters' diversion toward Webster Lake (now in the far north of Baxter State Park), part of the Penobscot watershed. By the late 19th century the lock dam between Chamberlain and Eagle Lakes had become a hindrance to logging operations. To speed the movement of timbers between the two lakes, the ingenious solution of a cable-drawn steam-powered tramway was implemented. At a neck of land about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the dam, a pair of tracks was laid across the neck (about 3,000 feet (910 m)), and a continuous wire cable loop 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in length was attached to lumber-carrying trucks. The tramway was powered by large steam boilers located at the Chamberlain Lake end, and was capable of transporting logs at 250 feet (76 m) per minute, averaging more than 500,000 board-feet of lumber over a typical working day. The tramway was rendered obsolete by the invention of the Lombard Steam Log Hauler, and ceased operation in 1907. Prior to the tramway, oxen hauled wood between Eagle and Chamberlain Lakes. In 1927 the Eagle Lake end of the tramway was adapted as the eastern terminus of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad, a freight-only operation for hauling timber southward. The railroad operated until 1933; the only major surviving element of its operation are two locomotives, which are vandal-stripped and exposed to the elements. Of the tramway, the cable and elements of its tracks survive, collapsing into the ground as the ties deteriorate, and elements of the steam power plant remain at Chamberlain Lake. The area is now part of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, a Maine state park. In 2012, part of the tramway was restored by volunteers. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Piscataquis County, Maine References