The Auburn–Harpswell Association Historic District encompasses a well-preserved enclave of summer residences built in the early 20th century in southern Harpswell, Maine.

[1] The town of Harpswell consists of several fingers of land, some of which are islands joined to the mainland by bridges, on the east side of Casco Bay on the southern coast of Maine.

On the west side of Harpswell Neck Road (Maine State Route 123) near this point is where the Auburn Colony is located.

Lining a small network of roads in a roughly east–west orientation are the ten houses of the colony, with the two common buildings just to their north.

"[2] Twenty small Gothic Victorian cottages were built on the property they acquired, which were tragically destroyed by fire in 1899, although the two community buildings survived.