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The arrival of the railroad in 1848, and the choice of Auburn in 1854 to be the seat of the new Androscoggin County cemented the importance of the area where downtown Auburn is now located, and prompted further residential development in this district. Several Italianate houses were built in 1850s, such as the Roak House (20 Elm Street, built c ...
The Horatio G. Foss House is a historic house at 19 Elm Street in Auburn, Maine within the Main Street Historic District.It was built in 1914 to a design by Gibbs & Pulsifer for Horatio Gates Foss, owner of a major local shoe factory, and is also notable for its well-preserved Colonial Revival styling.
Pulsifer was born in 1874 in Auburn, Maine, to Haley A. Pulsifer and Lenora A. (Perno) Pulsifer. He was educated in the Auburn public schools, graduating from Edward Little High School in 1896. He then joined the office of Coombs, Gibbs & Wilkinson, Lewiston architects.
Auburn is a city in south-central Maine, within the United States.Settled in the foothills of the Western Lakes and Mountains region of the state, The city serves as the county seat of Androscoggin County. [4]
State Route 136 (SR 136) is a numbered state highway in Maine, United States. It begins with SR 125 at the junction of U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Freeport , and travels to Auburn . Although it is only approximately 19 miles (31 km) long, it connects three major Maine commerce areas ( Lewiston , Auburn, and Freeport as well as points south).
The Auburn Commercial Historic District encompasses the main late 19th-century historic downtown area of Auburn, Maine. The twelve buildings in the district represent the city's growth between 1855 and 1902, housing businesses, professional offices and social halls, and also the city's municipal offices.
Police issued a shelter-in-place order, evacuated homes and closed a section of the street in Auburn, trigging memories of the mass shooting in neighboring Lewiston less than eight months ago ...
The Roak Block is an historic commercial-industrial building at 144-170 Main Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1871-72 as a combined commercial and industrial space, this Second Empire style block was at that time the largest commercial building in the entire state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]