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The Calais Railway was chartered in 1832 as one of the first railway charters granted by the state of Maine. Construction started in 1835. The company was reorganized as the Calais Railroad in 1838 and opened a 2 miles (3.2 km) railway from Calais to Salmon Falls in 1839. Horses pulled cars over the railway until it was abandoned in 1841.
Built sometime before 1831, it is a modest 1-1/2 story cottage with a long history of association with Calais' doctors. Now owned by the local historical society, it stands on Main Street next to the 1850 Dr. Job Holmes House, one of the town's finest Italianate houses. The Greek Revival is the most common architectural style found in the ...
The two buildings on Church Street that are part of the district are both civic buildings. Calais City Hall, located at 15 Church Street, is a Romanesque Revival structure built in 1901, and the former fire station at 13 Church Street was built in 1874, with its tower and belfry added in 1895-96. City Hall was designed by H. A. Crosby. [2]
Calais is the home of the first railroad built in the state of Maine, the Calais Railroad, incorporated by the state legislature on February 17, 1832. [7] It was built to transport lumber from a mill on the St. Croix River opposite Milltown, New Brunswick , 2 miles (3 km) to the tidewater at Calais in 1835.
The Maine Central Railroad (reporting mark MEC) was a U. S. class 1 railroad [2] in central and southern Maine. It was chartered in 1856 and began operations in 1862. By 1884, Maine Central was the longest railroad in New England. Maine Central had expanded to 1,358 miles (2,185 km) when the United States Railroad Administration assumed control ...
The first railroad in Maine was the Calais Railroad, ... A Historiographical Essay," Maine Historical Society Quarterly 1987 26(3): 160-179; WPA.
Maine Central Railroad Calais Branch is completed connecting Washington County, ... Railroad History, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9–15.
Just to its east stands the Dr. Job Holmes House, also a property of the St. Croix Historical Society. The cottage is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. The main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance in a two-story projecting gabled section, which is ...