THE TURRETS, BAR HARBOR. 1895 HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN MAINE 2 Maine Historic Preservation Commission FORT EDGECOMB. 1808 In 1971 the Maine Historic Preservation Commis- highway or an urban renewal demolition order. It Since its founding in 1971 the Commission has plac- sion was created by the 105th Legislature after a is also eligible for federal matching grants for its ed over 300 buildings and thirty historic districts on successful campaign by those who formed the acquisition or restoration. In its two aspects, the the Register and has allocated more than $600,000 original group of Citizens for Historic Preserva- Register both protects and encourages the con- in matching grants. These grants have therefore tion. The legislative mandate of the Commission tinued use of important historic buildings and sites. produced more than one million dollars of preser- was to "preserve the architectural, historic, and vation expenditure in Maine, helping to save the environmental heritage of the people of the State, The Commission's staff of four prepares the state's historic heritage and at the same time to and to develop and promote the cultural, National Register grant applications and nomina- provide for the existence of the skills to continue educational, and economic benefits of these tion forms, administers the grants, maintains a that preservation. The only state funds involved resources." State Inventory of Historic Resources, and works are half the office expense of the Commission staff, with local and state agencies to develop strategies amounting to $24,000 annually. The other half of the The major work of the Commission is carrying out for protecting historic sites. The Commission, con- operating costs and the entire grants program at the state level the provisions of the National sisting of representatives from other state agen- funds are federal money. Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which defined cies affected by preservation needs as well as the operation of the National Register of Historic citizen and professional members appointed by the Among the grants recipients have been the Morse- Places. A building or site that is on the Register is Governor, oversees the work of the staff and Libby or Victoria Mansion in Portland, the G.A.R. protected by a review process from the negative makes the final decisions on nominations and and Symphony Houses in Bangor, Percy and Small impact of any federally funded project such as a grants. Shipyard in Bath, and the Union Baptist Church in Farmington Falls. 3 ALNA MEETING HOUSE 1789 WALPOLE MEETING HOUSE 1772 OLD GERMAN MEETING HOUSE, WALDOBORO, 1772 Lincoln County The successful preservation of the Waldoboro and Knox & Waldo Counties The first major preservation activity in Maine was Walpole meetinghouses was repeated in 1889 by a the restoration about 1872 of two meetinghouses in community effort to save the Alna Meetinghouse By 1866 General Henry Knox's mansion Lincoln County. Waldoboro's Old German during its centennial year. Montpelier, built in 1793 in Thomaston, was Meetinghouse was being kept in its original 1772 "tenanted by several families, falling to ruin, the Another early preservation effort in Lincoln Coun- lawn in front of the beautiful oval room used as a condition "by the noble liberality of Col. George ty was the campaign in 1875 to restore the 1808 Fort Smouse," as a news account at the time put it. shipyard and covered with lumber." Despite ef- Edgecomb blockhouse. Local publisher Joseph Walpole's Bristol Meetinghouse was restored for forts to save it, Montpelier was torn down in 1871 to Wood's handbill defined the purpose of the restora- its centennial celebration. The Gospel Banner of make way for the railroad. Attitudes toward old tion as keeping the blockhouse as a "relic of the Augusta reported: "We were greatly interested in buildings had begun to change in 1929, when past and a shelter for picnic parties". Fort this old church structure, which was built in 1772, publisher Cyrus H.K. Curtis arranged to have a Edgecomb is now in state ownership and is still reconstruction of Montpelier built on a new site. and thoroughly renovated and painted inside and serving both functions. out, and carpets laid in all the aisles, and up the Also in Knox County are Rockland's Farnsworth gallery stairs the past season, but in no respect has Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association House and museum, Camden's Conway House, and any change been allowed in the structure itself, in- today is one of the most active preservation groups the recently restored Robbins House on the Union wardly or outwardly. The pews, the pulpit, the in the state. Its activities are centered in Green, being used as the town library. galleries, the doors, the windows are in precisely Wiscasset, whose many fine historic buildings in- the same form and style as when originally con- clude the Lincoln County Jail of 1809, Courthouse of structed. We were highly pleased to learn this fact 1818-1824, and many fine houses, of which the most and are glad to be able to chronicle it here. The age unusual is Castle Tucker of 1807. General Knox's name is also attached to Fort Knox in which we live is far too eager shamefully to The group also maintains Pownalborough in Waldo County at the mouth of the Penobscot op- obliterate all footprints of the fathers - everything Courthouse, which it restored on the occasion of its posite Bucksport. Begun in 1844 in anticipation of a that would remind one of the olden time - aye, the bicentennial in 1961 and which is the scene of many border war with Britain, the large granite complex 'times that tried men's souls'." events such as the annual Yankee Peddlar Day. is the most visited of Maine's forts. 4 York County The Old York Gaol was long thought to have been built in 1653 and is now believed to date from about 1720. It is the oldest stone building in Maine. It also is the oldest historic museum house in the state, having been converted to museum use in 1900 by the Old York Improvement Society. In 1976 there is a major effort underway to restore both the in- terior and exterior of the building. The Society for the Preservation of Historic Land- marks in York County reopened the Elizabeth Perkins House after an extensive repair and restoration. The house, built in 1691 and added to in 1732 and 1898, was willed to the Society in 1952 and has becn open to the public as a tourist attraction. The Maine Historic Preservation Commission provided a matching grant of $22,000 for the pro- ject, which involved such modern technological wonders as x-rays of the structure to detect hidden faults and epoxy resin impregnation to correct them. The seventeen gables of the roof were reshingled. The town of York has developed an imaginative answer to the problems of protecting its townscape from development pressures. Faced with the problems of proximity to Boston, heavy tourist traffic, especially during the Bicentennial, and the OLD YORK GAOL. YORK c. 1719 (1653?) projected doubling of its population in the next ten years, the town has set up a commission under the direction of John Bardwell and Ernest D. Breneman to come up with a set of Townscape Guidelines to serve as a basis for future town or- ing compliance while insuring against willful dis- "The inevitable pressure for growth places in dinances and citizen action to preserve the regard of agreed-upon community goals. jeopardy the very qualities which are attracting The new guidelines are not legally binding, but people." character of the town. already they serve as a basis for discussion of Regulation of visual quality seems to go against the The Kennebunk River Club is a beautiful shingle proposals for regulation and zoning. The legal tools grain of traditional Maine independence, but in necessary to enforce the standards would include style boat club built in 1899 and placed on the cases where outside pressures cannot be contained comprehensive zoning of the defined areas such as National Register of Historic Places in September by the equally traditional forces of consensus and the York Historic District, a sign and building code of 1975. It is a major example of the recreational consideration, it is probably the only sure way of architecture that dotted the Maine coast in the late with provision for design review, conditional per- keeping the visual environment intact. What York mit procedures to phase out non-conforming uses, 19th century. Several other buildings in has done is to develop three degrees of regulation, and some provision for the acceptance of scenic Kennebunkport are on the Register, including the from mandatory objective standards through dis- Customhouse and the Perkins Tide Mill. and architectural easements to help owners cretionary criteria administered by a design Kennebunk has an Historic District and boasts the protect their properties from future misuse. review process to a set of preferred criteria intend- first local historic preservation ordinance, the next ed to encourage imagination and variety within a As development pressure increases, every Maine necessary step in protecting an area from intrusion framework of overall unity and consistency. This town would do well to study the proposals. What the after the state and federal identification provided sytem tries to be flexible enough to encourage will- guidelines say of York is true of Maine as a whole: by the National Register. 5 In 1819 delegates met in Portland's 1740 Old Jerusalem Meetinghouse to create the new state South Cumberland County government; five years later the First Parish decided to replace the meetinghouse with the pre- sent stone church. In protest a Bowdoin College senior, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, wrote a poem. His mother informed him that the Rev. Ichabod Nichols "was much pleased with your lines on the 'Old Parish Church', though he thought you had not done much to promote the erection of a new one." Thus began, inauspiciously, the effort to preserve important Portland, and Maine, buildings. Portland has had a history of destruction and reconstruction: burned by the British in 1775 and again, not by the British, in 1866, Portland has in recent years felt the pressures of urban renewal. The first official preservation event occurred in 1901, when the poet's sister Anne Longfellow Pierce willed the family home of 1785 to the Maine Historical Society for use as a house museum. In 1908 the McLellan-Sweat Mansion, built in 1800, was deeded to the Portland Society of Art, and John Calvin Stevens added the museum wing in 1910. The Maine Society of Colonial Dames acquired the 1755 George Tate House in Stroudwater in 1931 and repaired it as a museum. And last in the line of Portland's house museums is the opulent Morse- Libby House, or Victoria Mansion, built probably by architect Henry Austin in 1859-63 and currently being restored by the Victoria Society with grants from the Historic Preservation Commission. 1961 marked a turning point in the history of Portland's attitude toward its architectural heritage. The "chateauesque" style Union Station complex was demolished to make room for a shop- ping center. The resulting reaction spurred the creation of the organization now called Greater Portland Landmarks, which has been in the forefront of preservation activities in the state since its formation. A very active program of publication, technical and financial assistance, and educational and political activity is carried out from Landmarks headquarters. Private businesses have participated in preserving large sections of Portland's downtown, notably the Old Port Exchange area, which has been transformed from a decaying neighborhood to an active center largely through the efforts of in- dividual developers. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY DONALD E. JOHNSON UNION STATION PORTLAND 1888-1961 6 PERRY HOUSE BRIDGTON 1874 North Cumberland County At the north end of Cumberland County is a good The town of Brunswick, with the campus of Bow- Historic preservation activities in the Freeport example of the conversion of an old, rambling doin College and the fine collection of houses on area have included a house-to-house survey done by Italianate country house to modern office use. Federal Street, is one of the architectural William Fenderson Perry of Bridgton rose from treasures of the state. The First Parish Church of local citizens and the designation of the Harraseeket Historic District in 1974. Individually humble rural origins to become owner of the local 1845 by Richard Upjohn is one of the prime ex- nominated to the Register is the Pettengill House textile mill and inventor of a widely used design for amples of board-and-batten Gothic in Maine, and and Farm, which was donated to the Freeport a turbine water wheel. In 1874 he had a house built the same architect's Bowdoin Chapel is an early Historical Society in 1975 by Mrs. L.M.C. Smith. in combined Italianate and Second Empire style. stone Romanesque building. The Society is developing plans to restore the house This example of Victorian display of wealth was The Pejepscot Historical Society, one of Maine's which, dating from around 1800, is one of the very listed on the Register in September 1975 and has oldest historical organizations, has acquired the few genuine saltboxes in Maine. It was never been converted to offices for several different 1857 Richardson House for use as a museum. The modernized by the addition of plumbing or elec- businesses. This kind of conversion is an ideal way house was built by Brunswick master mariner Cap- tricity and is today in its original form a valuable of keeping a building that is too large for domestic tain George McManus, and its transitional Greek example of late eighteenth century construction. use productive. Revival-Italianate solidity is an excellent example of the prosperity of mid-19th-century Brunswick. 7 TURNER CENTER CREAMERY RICHMOND 1904 Sagadahoc County church. It is fortunate that a group like SPI was Preservation in the Bath region of Sagadahoc Upstream from Bath, the town of Richmond has able to come forward to prevent the loss of these County has been the result of the activities of become actively involved in historic preservation two excellent buildings. Central Church is physical- Sagadahoc Preservation, Inc. Formed in May 1971, through the energies of the Richmond Historical ly secure, but as yet no new use for it has been SPI's first project was the preservation of the and Cultural Society. The Society has undertaken found. Winter Street Church building in Bath, built in 1843 architectural survey work and National Register by architect Anthony Coombs Raymond. The group A major effort to renovate the downtown commer- nomination preparation. Recently the Society ac- cial district of Bath has also been undertaken with quired the 1904 Richmond branch of the Turner succeeded in placing the church in the hands of the Bath Marine Museum in 1973. support from SPI. New street lighting, brick Center Creamery dairy and ice cream plant, which sidewalks and street furniture have been installed, it hopes to restore and use as a headquarters and a SPI is now at work restoring another church, the and building owners and shopkeepers have been en- key structure in the revitalization of the historic Central Church, a board-and-batten Gothic style couraged and assisted to enhance the historic area of the town. building of 1846 thought to have been designed by features of their storefronts and to co-ordinate the Richard Upjohn but now attributed to Boston scale and design of shop signs to reflect the architect Arthur Gilman. Both Central and Winter nineteenth-century heritage of downtown Bath. Street churches were jeopardized by the decision of their congregations to merge and build a new 8 MAISON BURNHAM TAVERN MACHIAS, 1770 Aroostook County Washington County Hancock County The towns of Aroostook County are doing a good job The history of preservation in Washington Coun- Many of the great shingle style monuments to of identifying and preserving buildings represen- ty is largely the history of the Machias region, the joys of a Bar Harbor summer were lost in the ting the early history of their frontier settlements. In addition to the Big Black archeological site and although Columbia Falls and Eastport have Na- great fire that swept the island in 1947. One of the early buildings of the Swedish community at tional Register buildings and recently the meet- the survivors is now the home of the College of New Sweden, the County's preserved buildings in- inghouse at Harrington has been restored. the Atlantic, and provides a good example of the clude the Blackhawk Putnam Tavern in Houlton, The most famous of the Machias buildings is reuse of an historic building for innovative pro- the oldest surviving house in the County, built in Burnham Tavern, where the first naval battle of grams. The Turrets was designed by the great ar- 1814; Fort Kent, the last wooden blockhouse built in Maine (in 1838) and preserved since 1893 as a the Revolution was planned and which served as chitect Bruce Price, who designed the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec and another Bar Harbor memorial; and in Van Buren the Violette House. a hospital after the battle. The tavern, which was built in 1770, has the unusual architectural House, "The Crags". The Turrets dates from The Violette House, now called Maison Heritage, is owned by Notre Heritage Vivant and maintained as feature apparently unique to Maine and shared 1893 and was acquired by the College in 1973. a memorial to the early Acadian settlers along the only by the Tate House in Portland's Stroud- The new owners have formulated an ambitious upper reaches of the Saint John River. It is a solid water District, of a vertical window wall inset in half-million-dollar plan for restoring the build- log house sheathed in clapboards (except for a rear a gambrel roof. Burnham Tavern was restored ing. wall of shingles) and finished with simple Greek for use as a museum as early as 1906. Hancock County also has important Historic Revival wood trim. As such it displays the houses carefully preserved in Ellsworth, where fascinating architectural combination of a house which is built with indigenous regional techniques the Colonel John Black House of 1824, built to and sheathed with a more conventional period ex- a design by Asher Benjamin, has been open as a terior, reflecting the blending of Acadian and New museum, and in the Castine area, where the Rev- England culture. olutionary War headquarters of the British at Fort George are preserved. 9 Franklin & Oxford Counties REPAIR REPAINT SPIRE The Farmington area of Franklin County has long been the scene of preservation, much of it traceable in recent years to the activities of Ben- EXTERIOR & jamin and Natalie Butler. In addition to the STEEPLE REPAIRS homestead and birthplace of famed opera singer Lillian Norton "Nordica", Farmington has its UNION BAPTIST CHURCH FARMINGTON FALLS,M? Cutler Memorial Library, First Congregational SCALE FT S.F.NE.A APRILIST ROOF RESTORE URNS (NEW) and Free Will Baptist Churches and several houses UNION BAPTIST CHURCH. FARMINGTON SECTION L-L NEW TOWER ROOF REPAIR 1'-C on the Register. CORVICE BREEN SPNEA APRIL 1976 REPAIR CORNICE RESTORE REPAIR SECTION B - B RESTORE ORIGINAL FRAME CLAPBOARDS ORIGINAL FRAME A restoration project undertaken for the Bicenten- WITH NEWTMBER TRIM. WITH NEW TIMBER nial is the Union Baptist Church building in nearby REPAINT EXTERIOR Farmington Falls. The drawings at left were prepared by the Society for the Preservation of 4"X5" TYP NEW ROOF New England Antiquities as a guide to the work 9'x11" 11"XII" needed to preserve the church from decay and to 8"X10" 11"x9" ? bring it back to its original condition. They are a RESTORE ORIGINAL CEILING REMOVE CONSERVE SASH MOPERN good indication of the kinds of things to look for in MODERN ACOUSTICAL CEILING PARTITION PRES.CLC examining a building for possible restoration work. NEW The restoration is funded by a matching grant from FURNACE the Historic Preservation Commission. ROOM NEW LALLYS SUPPORT TOWER RESET. Union Baptist Church is an appropriate project for NEW the Bicentennial because the first settlers came GRADE NEW cover NEWPIERS FOOTINGS, REGRADE SPACE GROPE BEAM & NEW FOOTINGS & PIERS into the Farmington Falls area in 1776, and the RE GRAPE E GROVEL CROWL SPACE church itself was raised exactly fifty years later, on July 4, 1826, so that it is marking its own ses- quicentennial. It was entered on the Register in UNION BAPTIST CHURCH, FARMINGTON FALLS, 1826 1973, and was described by Earle Shettleworth of the Commission as a "rare Maine example of a church which is eighteenth century in form on the farm kitchen, where a similar program of exterior, but was constructed in the 1820's and has recreated nineteenth-century life is underway. Federal style details This handsome survival Androscoggin County is a landmark at Farmington Falls. It com- The estate consists of the 1867 mansion built by the mands its location and is a permanent memorial to Washburn brothers as a home for their parents and all those denominations who made its creation a summer place for themselves, the schoolhouse possible." they attended as children, the 1883 stone gothic An innovative attempt at historic recreation is un- Washburn Memorial Library, and the Norlands derway at the Washburn-Norlands Foundation in Universalist Church dating from 1828. Of interest in Oxford County is the Moses Mason Livermore. The estate of the prominent Maine Norlands was the location of the 1976 Spring House in Bethel, which dates from 1813. Dr. Mason Washburn family contains the Little Time Conference of Citizens for Historic Preservation, was a successful local physician, postmaster, and Machine, a one-room schoolhouse operated daily who enjoyed a day of programs and tours on the sawmill operator. His house contains wall murals for children from schools around the state, and the beautiful Norlands grounds. by Rufus Porter, probably painted about 1830. 10 HISTORY HOUSE. SKOWHEGAN. 1839 ROW HOUSE, HALLOWELL, 1840 Kennebec County Somerset County Penobscot County The history of Kennebec County is the history of Upstream on the Kennebec, in Somerset County, Some of the early preservation grant-in-aid pro- the Kennebec River settlements. Fort Western, the city of Skowhegan has long had an interest in jects of the Maine Historic Preservation Commis- built for the French and Indian War of 1754, was preserving the traditions of its past. The most sion have been in the Bangor area. The Symphony bought in 1919 by Guy P. Gannett and saved from notable result has been the establishment of House was designed in 1833 by Richard Upjohn as a its fate as a tenement and firetrap. Reproduction History House museum. In 1940 Louise Helen residence for lumberman Isaac Farrar. It was stockade walls and blockhouses were added to sur- Coburn converted the 1849 house of her ancestor remodeled with Neo-Greek Revival mahogany round the original barracks building, and the Gov. Abner Coburn to a museum, adding the brick woodwork and dormers in 1893 by Isaac Merrill and property was presented to the City of Augusta in ell to the original block. The ell demonstrates the his architect Wilfred E. Mansur. In the early twen- 1921. In 1958 the Friends of Fort Western was form- best way to expand an historic building for new tieth century it was used by the University of ed to assist in its continued preservation. uses: it is a simple extension of the architecture of Maine and then the Northern Conservatory of Downstream in Hallowell a series of five row the existing building, not trying to make a separate Music. In 1972 it was acquired by the Bangor- houses built a hundred years after Fort Western statement of its own but allowing the main house Brewer YWCA and restored with a matching grant but looking curiously like it has been the object of the prominent role. from the Commission. restoration and renovation efforts by Row House The curiously Gothicized Greek Revival Thomas A. The State Bureau of Parks and Recreation main- Inc. The houses are the sole remaining example in Hill house of 1836 was also designed by Richard Maine of a wooden row house for factory workers. tains a major historic monument in Piscataquis Upjohn. Now the Grand Army Memorial Home, it The members of Row House were instrumental in County near Brownville Junction. The Katahdin Iron Works has a restored blast furnace and char- has also been the recipient of a restoration grant. the formation of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1971. coal kiln at a site dating from 1843 that produced about 2,000 tons of iron annually for half a century. 11 THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Preservation Organizations MAINE OLD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION The only national, nonprofit educational organiza- tion chartered by Congress to encourage public participation in the preservation of sites, buildings, Sponsored by the Maine League of Historical and objects significant in American history and Societies and Museums and by the Department of culture, the Trust owns several major properties History at the University of Maine at Orono, the that it operates as museums, publishes a monthly Maine Old Cemetery Association encourages the newspaper and quarterly magazine as well as discovery, restoration, and maintenance of old special publications through Preservation Press, cemeteries throughout the state, and preserves and is central to the co-ordination of federal ac- THE MAINE LEAGUE OF records and information about them. MOCA tivities related to preservation. HISTORICAL SOCIETIES publishes a quarterly newsletter and holds meetings and workshops around the state. The National Trust Board of Advisors is the AND MUSEUMS mechanism for two-way communication between the Trust and preservation interests in each state. The local advisors are kept up to date on govern- ment actions and in turn provide a channel for ex- The Maine League of Historical Societies and MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY pression of local concerns directly to Washington. Museums is an independent non-profit educational The current Trust Advisors for Maine are Mrs. and service organization dedicated to the develop- Phinneas Sprague, Prouts Neck, and Mrs. Verne ment of Maine's historic heritage and its values as The Maine Historical Society is a nonprofit Jones of Windsor. a living cultural force in the Maine community. It lists 160 independent historical organizations in its educational institution incorporated by the Maine membership, many of which have as an integral Legislature on February 5, 1822. It strives to part of their work the preservation of an important preserve and interpret Maine's life and history as a local landmark. The League holds two general Province and a State. It accomplishes this in part meetings a year: a Spring Seminar with workshops by collecting and preserving books, manuscripts, on various problems of local societies, and a fall maps, photographs, paintings, and objects dealing business meeting and speaker's luncheon. In addi- with the founding and development of Maine and THE SOCIETY FOR THE tion there are regional meetings and special pro- the accomplishments of its people. For more than a century and a half it has published a variety of PRESERVATION OF jects, and the handsome quarterly magazine MAINE HISTORY NEWS. Recently the League works on Maine history. In recent years the Society NEW ENGLAND ANTIQUITIES has published ADVENTURES IN MAINE has arranged special exhibitions of paintings and HISTORY, the first alphabetical compilation of other musuem holdings in an effort to create museums and public historic sites in the state, as a greater public understanding of Maine's rich past Founded early in this century by Sumner Appleton, guide to finding Maine's historic treasures. and the contributions of its people to our nation's growth. the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has acquired over 50 historic properties The Society's headquarters and library are located throughout New England, including six in Maine. next to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, which it The SPNEA offers consultation services, main- owns and operates, at 485 Congress Street in tains its properties and museums, and continues to Portland. Membership is open to all. publish the quarterly OLD TIME NEW ENGLAND, which says that the organization is devoted to the "ancient buildings, household fur- nishings, domestic arts, manners and customs, and minor antiquities of the New England people." CITIZENS FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Since its initial informal gathering in Hallowell in agencies. These have been educational programs 1970, the organization later named Citizens for focusing on some aspect of historic preservation. Historic Preservation has felt the need to en- The first, in Bangor, was on that city's architec- courage the recognition and preservation of ture. In 1972 the conference in Bath-Brunswick Maine's historic environment. Maine's great dealt with Historic District legislation. Augusta natural beauty, long history, and relative absence was the logical site of 1973's meeting on govern- of heavy development pressures give it many ad- ment and preservation, and in 1974 Citizens spon- vantages as a place to maintain the living presence sored a Portland symposium on the Victorian En- of old buildings. However, only the continual vironment. In 1975 the conference, called "Buying vigilance of concerned and active citizens can pre- Antique Buildings in Maine", concentrated on the vent our heritage from being thoughtlessly economic realities and possibilities of historic destroyed. preservation. In May of 1976 Citizens went to the Washburn-Norlands estate for a day of preserva- There are many groups and individuals who share tion workshops and demonstrations, and in our concerns, and our aim is to be a link among September there is a conference at Colby College them, a means to co-ordinate activities at the state on the Historic Environment. level and to support local efforts with statewide notice and help. Our members represent many In addition to the conferences, Citizens also areas and organizations, and, through our meetings publishes a quarterly Newsletter which reports on and programs, have kept each other informed of the activities of the Commission and details what was happening there. noteworthy local projects and aspects of preserva- tion in Maine. Recent articles have dealt with con- In 1971 Citizens launched a successful campaign to servation easements, historic surveys, Maine's urge the state to create the Maine Historic Preser- revolutionary buildings, and reports from the vation Commission, which identifies important Director of the Commission and the National Trust historical buildings and administers the National Advisor for Maine. Register and preservation grants programs. The group continues to support the work of the Com- mission and to try to spread word of Commission A copy of the Newsletter and information about activities. joining Citizens may be obtained by writing to: Citizens has also sponsored annual conferences CITIZENS FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION since 1971, in co-operation with local groups and P.O. BOX 197 BATH, MAINE 04530 EXHIBITION CREDITS This exhibition of preservation activities in Maine was prepared by Citizens for Historic Preservation and made possible by grants from the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities and from the Eva Gebhard-Gourgaud Foundation. Design. Drawings, Text Christopher Glass, Camden Citizens would like especially to thank Historic Preservation Com- mission Director Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. for his essential NORLANDS LIVERMORE 1867 assistance in this project.