Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine

[1] Additionally, almost three hundred vessels were launched by Yarmouth's shipyards in the century between 1790 and 1890, and the homes of master shipwrights and ship captains can still be found throughout the town.

[2] Yarmouth's 2010 Comprehensive Plan identified "historic character" as one of five key topics facing the town.

In December 2017, the first phase of a "reconnaissance-level architectural survey" of the town's "village core" was commissioned by its Department of Planning & Development.

The surveyed of 547 properties and 773 structures, across 773 acres (313 ha), included houses, barns, churches, bridges, dams "and objects such as memorials and water troughs.

The three potential historic districts that were recommended were Upper Village, Lower Falls and Royal River Manufacturing Company.

Many are located in the Gilman Road and Pleasant Street areas, which leads to the possibility of it being a future historic district.

Original owner Peter Allen tore down the Hannah Russell House at 3 Marina Road and built the current structure in 1881.

As its name implies, the southern section, across Route 1, eventually leads to Portland, the largest city in Maine.

In 1889, Dr. Herbert A. Merrill had a dental practice in the rear of his house, built four years earlier, in Brickyard Hollow on Main Street.

A muddy valley up until the beginning of the 20th century, the area was eventually reclaimed as a civic center by the laying down of a two-foot layer of black ash, from Forest Paper Company, to level it out.

In contrast to today, people who lived near "the Corner" of Elm and Main Streets in the 19th century would not think of shopping at the Lower Falls end of the latter thoroughfare.

For over 150 years, much of the retail activity in the Upper Village occurred in the area of the Brick Store at 357 Main Street.

[5] The building, which was constructed in 1930, is dedicated to Carl Henry Winslow, who was the fire chief for seventeen of the forty-four years he was in its ranks.

[18] 32 Center Street, a brick side-hall Greek Revival, was the home of Captain Samuel Baker circa 1850.

The location was chosen out of fear that it would be vandalized if it was built on Main Street, for Yarmouth was a predominantly Protestant town at the time.

It crosses the Royal River at the park just beyond the Fourth Falls and passes Yarmouth Junction at Depot Road.

Not to be confused with an early name for East Elm Street, today's incarnation used to be the main access road to the Forest Paper Company at the Third Falls.

Henry Caswell, a blacksmith, lived at the brick number 31 Mill Street, across the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (then the Grand Trunk Railway).

[20] Farmland was given over to house lots and sold to merchants and sea captains, including Perez Nathaniel Blanchard and Ansel Loring.

[5] Frederic Gore (1860–1930), the manager of Forest Paper Company, lived at number 62, at the corner of South and Cumberland Streets, with his wife, Angie.

Mayberry Lane braches off from the northern section of Portland Street, most visible if coming from the village because it runs at an angle from where the Lindquist Funeral Home stands.

[5] The cove sits between Sunset Point, at the southern end of Yarmouth, and the eastern edge of Cumberland Foreside.

Nearby Callen Point was where Captain Walter Gendall was killed in 1688 while taking supplies to his troops building a fort on the southern side of the river.

Of the eight churches in Yarmouth, five date from the 19th century or earlier and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It was built in 1860 for an Orthodox Congregational parish, and is one of the state's few surviving churches designed by architect Thomas Holt.

It was designed by Portland architect George M. Harding, and it is the third incarnation of churches built for the town's Congregationalists.

The First Parish Congregational was originally known as the Meetinghouse under the Ledge and was located facing Casco Bay at the intersection of Route 88 and Gilman Road.

Francis Brown, an 1805 graduate of Dartmouth College and later its president, was invited to preach before the Congregational church.

During World War II, the belfry was used an airplane-spotting outlook post in the Civil Defense System.

[36] The building is owned by the Yarmouth Village Improvement Society and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.