Historic places in Bangor, Maine
Bangor in Penobscot County has 39 properties on the National Register of Historic Places: 30 buildings, 7 districts, 1 structure, 1 object. The first was listed in 1972 and the most recent in 2024. The most common areas of significance here are architecture, commerce, community planning and development.
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Every National Register listing in Bangor
Great Fire of 1911 Historic District
The Great Fire of 1911 Historic District is located in downtown Bangor, Maine, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. [Wikipedia]
Harlow, Center, Park, State, York, and Central Sts. · NPS record #84001479
Williams, Gen. John, House (also Mason House)
The Gen. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #78000195
Adams-Pickering Block
The Adams-Pickering Block is a historic commercial building at Main and Middle Streets in Bangor, Maine. [Wikipedia]
Corner of Main and Middle Sts. · NPS record #74000184
All Souls Congregational Church
All Souls Congregational Church is an historic church at 10 Broadway in Bangor, Maine. [Wikipedia]
10 Broadway · NPS record #92000790
Bangor Children's Home
Established in 1839 by the Maine Legislature as the Bangor Female Orphan Asylum, it served the community in that role until 1975, after which its facilities were converted into the Hilltop School and day-care center. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #75000103
Bangor Fire Engine House No. 6 (also Center Street Fire Station; Montgomery Street Fire Station)
Built in 1902, it is a high quality local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and is one of a series of important public commissions by local architect Wilfred E. Mansur. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #88000394
Bangor Hose House No. 5 (also State Street Fire Station; Hose 5 Fire Museum)
Built in 1897, it served as a fire house for about a century. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #97001130
Bangor House
Built in 1833-34 and repeatedly enlarged, the hotel was a major fixture in the city, and one of the nation's early high-class hotels. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #72000076
Bangor Mental Health Institute (also Eastern Maine Insane Hospital)
The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital operated by the state of Maine. [Wikipedia]
656 State St. · NPS record #87000420
Bangor Standpipe
Thomas Hill Standpipe, which holds 1,750,000 US gallons (6,600,000 L) of water, is a riveted wrought iron tank with a wood frame jacket located on Thomas Hill in Bangor, Maine, United States. [Wikipedia]
Jackson St · NPS record #74000185
Bangor Theological Seminary Historic District
Bangor Theological Seminary was an ecumenical seminary, founded in 1814 (1814), in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ. [Wikipedia]
Union St. · NPS record #77000080
Battleship Maine Monument
The Battleship Maine Monument is a memorial marker in Davenport Park, Bangor, Maine. [Wikipedia]
Jct. of Main and Cedar Sts. · NPS record #99001187
Blake House (also Prentiss &; Carlisle,Inc.)
Built in 1858 to a design by local architect Calvin Ryder, it is one of the first Second Empire houses to be built in the state of Maine. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #72000077
Broadway Historic District
The Broadway Historic District in Bangor, Maine, United States, bounded by Garland, Essex, State, Park, and Center Streets, is one of the residential neighborhoods that had been most favored by the city's lumber barons and business elites in the early to late 19th century. [Wikipedia]
Bounded by Garland, Essex, State, Park and Center Sts. · NPS record #73000244
Bryant, Charles G., Double House
Built in 1836 as a speculative venture by architect Charles G. Bryant, it has, unlike many similar local buildings of the period, retained most of its original Greek Revival styling. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86001338
Building at 84-96 Hammond Street (also Albert and Edmund Dole Block; Albert and Edmund Dole Steam Mill Block)
The Building at 84–96 Hammond Street in Bangor, Maine, is a historically significant commercial and residential structure. [Wikipedia]
84-96 Hammond St. · NPS record #05000797
Colonial Apartments
Built in 1919, it is one of the oldest and best-preserved apartment houses in the city that was marketed to a middle and upper-class population. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #12001067
Connors House (also Former Home for Aged Women)
Built about 1866–67, it is a fine example of the "Bangor style" of Second Empire architecture, notable as the last known work of architect Benjamin S. Deane, and as the home of Edward Connors, operator of Bangor's log boom and the city's wealthiest Irish-American. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #83003669
Farrar, Samuel, House
Built in 1836 for one of the city's leading businessmen, it is an important early work of American architect Richard Upjohn. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #74000186
Godfrey-Kellogg House (also Godfrey Estate; Cliff Cottage)
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #73000136
Grand Army Memorial Home
Now housing the collections of the Bangor Historical Society and an American Civil War collection, the house was built in 1836 to a design by Richard Upjohn. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #72000105
Great Fire of 1911 Historic District (Boundary Increase)
29 Franklin St. · NPS record #100008538
Hamlin, Hannibal, House
Built c. 1848–51, this well-preserved Italianate house was the home of U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin from 1862 until his death in 1891. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #79000160
Hammond Street Congregation Church
The Hammond Street Congregational Church is a historic church on Hammond and High Streets in Bangor, Maine. [Wikipedia]
Hammond and High Sts. · NPS record #82000774
Hasey's Maine Stages Building
490 Broadway · NPS record #100010085
Jenkins, Charles W., House
Built in 1845–46, it is a well-preserved example of a Gothic Revival cottage in an urban setting. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #90001469
Jonas Cutting-Edward Kent House
Built in 1836–37, it is one of the city's most unusual and elaborate examples of Greek Revival architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #73000137
Low, Joseph W., House (also McEvoy,Dr. Charles,House)
Built in 1857 in the city's then-fashionable Thomas Hill neighborhood, it is one of northern Maine's finest examples of Italianate architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #73000138
Morse & Co. Office Building
The Morse & Co. [Wikipedia]
Harlow St. · NPS record #73000139
Mount Hope Cemetery District
Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. [Wikipedia]
U.S. 2 · NPS record #74000187
Sargent-Roberts House
Built in 1814 and restyled several times, the house exemplifies a local trend to update high-quality houses to the latest styles in 19th-century Bangor. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #96001476
Smith, Zebulon, House
Built in 1832, it is one of the two oldest houses (along with the Charles Q. Clapp House in Portland) in the state of Maine to be built with a Greek Revival temple front. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #74000189
St. John's Catholic Church
St. [Wikipedia]
York St. · NPS record #73000142
Symphony House (also Isaac Farrar House)
Built in 1833, it was the first major commission of the noted 19th-century architect Richard Upjohn. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #72000078
Veazie, Jones P., House
Built in 1874–75, it is one of a small number of works of Bangor native George W. Orff to survive in the state, and is one of its finest examples of Second Empire architecture. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #88000890
Wardwell-Trickey Double House
Built in 1836, it is one of the least-altered early duplex brick houses in the city, in a form that were rarely seen in the state outside Bangor. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #92000795
West Market Square Historic District
The West Market Square Historic District encompasses one of Bangor, Maine's central urban business districts. [Wikipedia]
W. Market Sq. · NPS record #79000161
Wheelwright Block (also Wheelwright-Clark Block)
The Wheelwright Block is a historic commercial building at 34 Hammond Street in Bangor, Maine. [Wikipedia]
34 Hammond St. · NPS record #74000191
Whitney Park Historic District
The Whitney Park Historic District is a residential historic district on the west side of Bangor, Maine. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by 8th, Union, Pond and Hayford Sts. · NPS record #88001844
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