University of Maine

University of Maine, Orono, Maine

University of Maine Campus Planning (Website)

University of Maine report to the Getty (PDF) 21.7MB

University of Maine report appendices (PDF) 15.3MB

The University of Maine campus was founded in 1865 with funding from the federal Morrill Land Grant College Act. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted produced a plan for the campus along the Stillwater River and the ten buildings of the National Register District comprise this late-19th century campus core. The buildings vary from vernacular domestic structures to substantial Romanesque, Italianate and Neoclassical academic buildings. In 1932, Olmsteds successor firm, Olmsted Brothers, developed a plan centered on a new, park-like campus mall, from which the campus continued to grow into the 1950s. Funding will help the university to create a historic preservation master plan to assure proper stewardship and use of its historic buildings.

University of Maine received a Getty grant in 2004 for $175,000 to support campus heritage planning.