List of the oldest buildings in Maine
This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of Maine in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Maine and any other surviving structures from the First Period or oldest buildings of their type in Maine. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features; a report by an architectural historian; or dendrochronology.
List
Building | Location | First Built | Notes | |
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William Whipple House | ![]() |
Kittery, Maine | ca. 1660 | oldest portion of home dates to circa 1660 and was birthplace of General William Whipple, Signer of the Declaration of Independence; located at 88 Whipple Road[1][2] Possibly the oldest house in Maine. As of 2019 date not yet confirmed with dendrochronology. |
Francis Hooke House | Kittery Point, Maine | ca. 1674 [3] | [4][5] | |
William Pepperrell House | ![]() |
Kittery, Maine | 1682[6] | One of the oldest houses in Maine[7] |
Hunnewell House | ![]() |
Scarborough, Maine | 1684 | The Hunnewell House is one of the oldest surviving structures in the United States state of Maine.[8] |
Littlefield Tavern | ![]() |
Wells, Maine | 1690 | [9] |
Wells Homestead | ![]() |
Wells, Maine | 1696 | |
McIntire Garrison House | ![]() |
York, Maine | 1707 | [10] |
Old York Gaol | ![]() |
York, Maine | c. 1720 | One of the oldest surviving jails in America[11] |
Bray House (Kittery Point, Maine) | ![]() |
Kittery, Maine | c. 1720 | originally believed to be from mid-1600s, and claimed for many years to be the oldest house in Maine. |
First Congregational Church and Parsonage (Kittery, Maine) | ![]() |
Kittery, Maine | c. 1730 | Oldest church building in Maine |
Ramsdell House | York, Maine | c. 1747 | One of the oldest houses in Maine dated using tree ring dendrochronology.[12] Located on Lindsay Road. | |
Tate House (Portland, Maine) | ![]() |
Portland, Maine | c. 1755 | House museum and one of the oldest houses in Portland |
Burnham Tavern | ![]() |
Machias, Maine | 1770 | Possibly the oldest building east of the Penobscot River in Maine.[13] |
Portland Head Light | Portland, Maine | c. 1790 | Oldest lighthouse in Maine | |
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See also
- Oldest buildings in America
- Timeline of architectural styles
Notes
- "Restoring the house of legendary William Whipple" by D. Allan Kerr news@seacoastonline.com, Oct 9, 2017
- Old Kittery and Her Families, by Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, (Lewiston, ME: 1903) pg. 81 - Old Kittery and Her Families, by Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, (Lewiston, ME: 1903) pg. 81
- https://firstperiodnewengland.wordpress.com/houses/
- John Mead Howells, The Architectural Heritage of the Piscataqua: Houses and ... (1937), p. 207 https://books.google.com
- John E. Frost (John Eldridge), Colonial Village, (1948), pg. 69 archive.org
- https://firstperiodnewengland.wordpress.com/houses/
- "NRHP nomination for William Pepperrell House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
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- "NHL nomination for McIntire Garrison House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
- "NHL nomination for Old York Gaol". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- http://www.dendrochronology.net/me.asp
- Dabney W. Caldwell, Roadside Geology of Maine (1998) pg. 92 https://books.google.com
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