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9 Calais Avenue
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Greek Revival architecture (circa 1840). [Source: In part or entirety from "Sunrise County Architecture" 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Calais 04619
Barbour House, Elias
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Brick Federal architecture (1830). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 255 Main Street, Calais 04619
Calais City Building
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Brick Romanesque Revival architecture (1901). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Calais 04619
Calais Fire House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Brick Italianate architecture (1874). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Calais 04619
Calais Free Library
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Built in 1892 of Brick in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Union St., Calais 04619
Calais Main Street Historic District
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Seventeen buildings, three of which are listed separately. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Two blocks on the south side of Main Street (U.S. Route 1) facing the St. Croix River, and extending up Church, Sawyer, and North Streets. Main Street, Calais 04619.
Calais Residential Historic District
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Twenty four contributing resources, seven of which are listed separately. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: On the south side of Main Street (U.S. Route 1) and both sides of Calais Avenue. Main Street, Calais 04619
Calais Temperance House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Greek Revival architecture (1835). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: At the corner of Calais Avenue and Temperance Street. 6 Calais Avenue, Calais 04619
Responsible Organization: St. Croix Masonic Association
Alexander Gilmore House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Gothic Revival. One of three "gingerbread" homes along Main Street and the St. Croix River. On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Main St. (U.S. Route 1 south), Calais
Hamilton House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Italianate style architecture (circa 1870). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 78 South Street, Calais 04619
Hill Building
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Greek Revival architecture (1847), with gambrel roof. Brick with denticulated cornice. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Corner of Main St. (U.S. Route 1) and North St., Calais 04619
Hinckley Hill Historic District
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Eight contributing properties, five of which are listed separately. They are primarily frame residential buildings. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: At the eastern end of Main Street. Main Street (U.S. Route 1 south), Calais 04619
Holmes Cottage Museum
Keywords: Architecture, Museum
Description: Cape Cod style house (circa 1805-1806), on the National Register of Historic Places. Museum consisting of a typical doctors home and office in the 1800s. [Source: In part or entirety from "Sunrise County Architecture" 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 245 Main Street, Calais 04619
Open to the Public?: Yes
Quantity Site can Accommodate: 20
Bus Tours Welcome?: Yes
Dates Open: Monday through Friday, June 28 to Labor Day
Hours Open: 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Items for Sale: Historical Books on Calais, Maine area
Is there a Host(ess) Available?: Yes
Responsible Organization: St. Croix Historical Society, RFD 1, Box 93, Calais, ME 04619; Phone: 454-2604
Holmes House, Dr. Job
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Italianate Building (1850-1851). On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 247 Main Street, Calais 04619
Theodore Jellison House (The Stone House)
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Large Stone House (1825) of Greek Revival architecture, with six-over-six double sash windows, and cornices. On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: River Road, U.S. Route 1, Calais 04619
Joseph Kalish House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Formerly a Jewish synagogue, the only one ever to exist in Washington County. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 63 North Street, Calais 04619
Milltown Methodist Church
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Gothic Revival architecture (1836). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: South Street, Calais 04619
Charles Newton House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Italianate style (early 1870s). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 309 Main Street, Calais 04619
Pike Milestones
Keywords: Markers, Site
Description: Twelve granite mileage markers along U.S. Route 1 between Robbinston and Calais, placed there (between 1860-1870) by James Shepard Pike, who had a summer home in Robbinston and a winter home in Calais. On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: On the east side of U.S. Route 1, at one mile intervals between the Mansion House in Robbinston and the intersection of U.S. 1 and North Street in Calais. U.S. Route 1, Calais
Sawyer House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Greek Revival architecture (1840). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 7 Calais Avenue, Calais 04619
St. Anne Episcopal Church
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Gothic Style (1853), portraying the asymmetry of irregularity, typical of the Gothic period. On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 23 Church St. 23 Church St., Calais 04619
United Methodist Church
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Gothic Revival architecture (1834). [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 231 Main Street, Calais 04619
Charles F. Washburn House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: House (1855) with Gothic decorations; one of three "gingerbread" homes along Main Street and the St. Croix River. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: Main Street (U.S. Route 1) South, Calais 04619
George Washburn House
Keywords: Architecture
Description: Carpenter Gothic house (1855). One of three "gingerbread" homes along Main Street and the St. Croix River. On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: 318 Main Street, Calais 04619
Washington County Genealogical Society
Keywords: History Resource
Description: Newsletter Printed Bi-Monthly "Weirs and Wood."
Location: 5C Apple Orchard Lane, Calais 04619
Whitlock Mill Light Station
Keywords: Architecture, Light
Description: Built in 1909: light tower, lightkeeper's house, and bell building. Last lighthouse built in Maine. Named for Mr. Whitlock, who owned a lath mill at nearby Bog Brook, and who tended to the tower's 1892 predecessor--a red lantern hung on a tree!
The 12-foot diameter tower is constructed on a granite foundation of brick, painted white, is lined inside with white enamel brick, is octagonal, and rises 32 feet. Steel steps lead to the top of the tower. The octagonal light area at the top is surrounded outside by a narrow steel walkway with railing.
The bell house is a wood-shingled, wood frame, pyramid-shaped building. (The bell is no longer resident.)
Also built in 1909 as part of the station were a hip-roofed, shingled shed, and a brick oil house.
The 7-room lightkeeper's house is L-shaped, and faces the river. It has a projecting two-bay gambrel-roofed east end. The recessed portion of the ell is an enclosed porch. Windows are six-over-six, with a pair on each story. The house has three pedimented dormers.
The lightkeeper's house is now privately owned, but the light can be viewed from the roadside park. On National Register of Historic Places.
[Source: In part taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.; and in part from records held by the St. Croix Historical Society.]
Location: U.S. Route 1 South, Calais
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