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Federal Street Historic District

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254:, and the college assumed a more prominent role. The college campus is joined to the downtown by Maine Street, which runs through downtown Brunswick south, and was the area's first major road (1717), and Federal Street, laid out roughly parallel to the east of Maine Street in 1803. Federal Street rapidly became a fashionable residential area, with high-style houses lining it and adjacent cross streets connecting it to Maine Street. In 1826 a swamp along Maine Street was filled in to form a park bounded on the east by Park Row, which was also developed with high style housing. The college extended the idea of the Park Row mall along the western edge of its campus. 838: 104: 79: 62: 849: 111: 86: 258:
on Federal Street to Mason Street. Most of the buildings in the district are residential, and the most commonly-seen architectural styles are Federal, Greek Revival, and Colonial Revival, although other 19th and early 20th-century revival styles are also represented. Notable non-academic buildings in the district include the prominently-placed
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The historic district encompasses the traditional heart of the Bowdoin campus, bounded by Maine and College Streets on the west and south, Silas Drive on the East, and Bath Road to the north. It then extends northward along Park Row and Federal Street to School Street, from which it continues north
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encompasses a part of the town whose development was influenced by its 18th-century success as a shipping center, and by the presence of
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The town of Brunswick was chartered in 1737, and was initially powered economically by mills along the
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Roughly bounded by Mason, Maine, College, and Federal Sts.,
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Federal Street Historic District is located in Maine
Federal Street Historic District is located in the United States
Brunswick, Maine
43°54′45″N 69°57′45″W / 43.91250°N 69.96250°W / 43.91250; -69.96250
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Brunswick, Maine
Bowdoin College
National Register of Historic Places
Androscoggin River
Embargo of 1807
First Parish Church
Richard Upjohn
Henry Boody House
Parker Cleaveland House
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Massachusetts Hall
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


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