Saturday, February 18, 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

MAINE
Perkins Homestead, Newcastle


The family homestead and lifelong summer residence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's influential secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the Cabinet.