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RICHMOND

The Maine Historic Preservation Commission is sponsoring an architectural survey of the properties within the Richmond Historic District.

The Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 in recognition of the town’s important architectural, commercial, transportation, and maritime history. At that time only a portion of the district’s historic resources were identified in the Register documentation. The current project is designed to update the information on all the resources within the Richmond Historic District.

Beginning this fall two architectural historians from ttl-architects of Portland will work in Richmond to gather information on the buildings and structures in the Historic District. Each resource will be photographed and a survey form which describes the physical attributes of the building will be completed. The field work for this project will be completed by early winter.

All of this work will be done from the public way so the surveyors will not need access to the inside of any buildings. Once completed, the National Register documentation will be updated with a complete inventory of the historic and non-historic properties within the District. This work will, in turn, be available to Richmond residents and public officials to reference as they seek to understand and preserve the historic character of and historic properties in town.

Maine’s architectural survey program began in 1972. Since then, the effort to catalogue and document the historic human-made environment has continued to be a central goal of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission’s mandate with more than 50,000 properties surveyed to date. The survey component of the overall preservation planning program is a vital one. Surveys document at a variety of levels the historic human-made environment of our communities. This enables the Commission to identify properties which merit nomination to the National Register of Historic Places and extend protection to those resources.



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