Maine Preservation

Jane's Walk 2025

Jane's Walk 2025

Jane’s Walk 2025

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Support Expansion of the Maine Historic Tax Credit

Support Expansion of the Maine Historic Tax Credit

Support Expansion of the Maine Historic Tax Credit

2025 Honorees

2025 Honor Awards

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Year in Review

Year in Review

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2025 Honor Awards

2025 Honor Awards

2025 Honor Awards

Celebrating Excellence in Preservation since 1998

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2024 Most Endangered Historic Places

2024 Most Endangered Historic Places

2024 Most Endangered Historic Places

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The 1772 Foundation Grants

The 1772 Foundation Grants

The 1772 Foundation Grants

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Understanding & Advancing the Preservation Trades

Understanding & Advancing the Preservation Trades

Understanding & Advancing the Preservation Trades

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Learn More About What We Do

Learn More About What We Do

Learn More About What We Do

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Celebrating 50 years

Celebrating 50 years

Celebrating 50 years

Learn more about the First 50 Years of Maine Preservation

Drive ME Historic Tours

Drive ME Historic Tours

Drive ME Historic Tours

Celebrate Maine’s Bicentennial

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Mapping the Black Experience in Maine

Mapping the Black Experience in Maine

Mapping the Black Experience in Maine

A Visual History

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Professional Resources for Historic Preservation

Professional Resources for Historic Preservation

Professional Resources for Historic Preservation

Preservation Professionals Directory

We promote and preserve historic places, buildings, downtowns and neighborhoods—strengthening the cultural and economic vitality of Maine communities.

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Reading this over a coffee and a Sunday morning donut? You have John Blondel of Thomaston to thank! In July 1872, the U.S. Patent Office granted the Mainer a patent for a doughnut cutter, creating the iconic donut (or doughnut, whichever you prefer!)

Had Maine Preservation’s residency on North Haven been scheduled just a few decades earlier, we’d have found ourselves standing beneath boats in the shipyard on Fox Isle, as the island was known up until 1947 when the town renamed itself

“This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled globe. It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor wasteland…Man was not to b

📣 ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS for �Maine's Most Endangered Historic Places 2023 list! This is your chance! Nominating an endangered place to our 2023 List is an opportunity for Mainers to make their voices heard and to shine a light on the places that mat

Take a stroll today past the house where a spider named Charlotte spun her first fictional web. Author Elwyn Brooks (E. B.) White’s house in Brooklin is a private residence, so do be respectful as you walk by, with your fingers marking your fav

Within Acadia National Park (established in July 1916) stands Rockefeller Hall, built in 1933 by the National Park Service to house Navy personnel. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. commissioned noted architect Grosvenor Atterbury to design in the French Norm

Long before the town of Cape Porpoise (now Kennebunkport) was incorporated #OnThisDate in 1653, the forests covering southern Maine were home to an estimated 32,000 to 40,000 indigenous people, according to @brickstoremuseum. The main form of transpo

“Since I began this note, I have been called off at least a dozen times; once for the fish-man … once to see a man who had brought me some barrels of apples … once to see a book-man … then to nurse the baby; then into the k

Thanks to The 1772 Foundation, executive directors from statewide preservation organizations in the Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, PA, RI, VT) gathered at @the_driftwood_inn on Bailey Island for their annual retreat on June 12th through 14th. In addi

The Word of the Day this Thursday: retrofitting! As we’ll discuss at the webinar, State Historic Tax Credits: Opportunities for Affordable Housing and Sustainability, retrofitting is at the core of addressing two of our country’s most pre

📣 Nominations now open for MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLACES 2023 List! Maine Preservation's list of Most Endangered Historic Places boosts local efforts and draws media focus and positive attention with an aim to preserve threatened places throughout

Next stop on Maine Presration’s residency itinerary: Aroostook County! Mark your calendars for July 10th through 14th and reach out to reserve a session with our team. Talk hands-on conservation or map out a plan for community-building and fund

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