US 2 N side, .05 mi. W of jct. with ME 8, Norridgewock, Maine. County/parish: Somerset.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 07, 1996. NRIS 96000244.
1 contributing building.
The former Norridgewock Female Academy, now home to the Norridgewock Historical Society, is a historic school property on Mercer Road (United States Route 2), just west of its junction with Upper Main Street in Norridgewock, Maine. Its Greek Revival building was built in 1837, when the school was founded, and was used by that institution until 1860. The building is regionally distinctive as one of a few surviving Greek Revival school buildings with a Greek temple portico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88687302