Sunday, April 9, 2023

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Maine


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Maine

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Thomas B. Reed House, Portland


This house was built in 1888 as the home of Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1889–1891 and 1895–1899).