Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

The Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum is located at 109 Main Street, in the White Memorial Building, in Houlton, Maine.  The museum was founded in 1934, after the building, a handsome 1903 Colonial Revival house, was donated to the town by the White family.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Collection

Architecture and history
The museum stands on the south side of Main Street, east of Houlton's downtown area, between Broadway and Kelleran Streets, and just east of Cary Library.  It is a handsome two-story Colonial Revival structure, designed by Kendal, Taylor and Stevens of Boston, Massachusetts, and built in 1903.  Its dominant feature is a two-story portico covering the center three bays of the five-bay facade.  It is supported by four Tuscan columns, with matching pilasters on the wall, and has an entablature topped by a denticulated cornice.  The main entrance has an elegant surround of pilasters supporting an entablatured lintel with consoles.  The interior has retained its original period woodwork, which is dignified yet restrained.

The house was built in 1903 by Mrs. Mary Louise (Woodbury) MacIntyre, whose father, Eben Woodbury, had built three successive houses on this property, all of which were destroyed by fire (the most recent in the town's devastating 1902 fire).  After her death in 1934, the house was purchased by the Whites, who donated it to the town for use as a museum.  Initially the museum was housed on the upper floor, while town offices occupied the ground floor; the building now houses only the museum.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Aroostook County, Maine
List of museums in Maine

References

External links
 Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum - Facebook site

Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Category:Colonial Revival architecture in Maine
Category:Houses completed in 1903
Category:Buildings and structures in Houlton, Maine
Category:Museums in Aroostook County, Maine
Category:Houses in Aroostook County, Maine
Category:History museums in Maine
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Aroostook County, Maine