Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center

Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, Portland, Maine. County/parish: Cumberland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 05, 1978. NRIS 78000169.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center

The Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center is a historic building at 45 Seashore Avenue on Peaks Island, an island neighborhood of Portland, Maine in Casco Bay. It was built in 1888 by American Civil War veterans "as a memorial to their deceased comrades and as a reunion hall for themselves." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a Greater Portland Landmark in 1984. Today it is open as a museum.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88685642

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