Ellsworth’s Main Street is a visual record of design choices that serves as a lens to the 1930s. Business owners who rebuilt after the fire that leveled Main Street, and who accessed New Deal support, made deliberate choices about materials and architectural style. These decisions shaped the streetscape today. This tour explains why Main Street looks the way it does and how fire, design, and public investment intersected here 90 years ago.
Accessibility:
There is free public parking along Main Street and State Street as well as infront of City Hall.
Ending Location:
Corner of Franklin Street Parklet
3 Franklin Street
Ellsworth, Maine 04605
Ellsworth, Maine 04605
May 2, 2026
2:00 PM
Led by:
Betsy Arntzen
Organization: Assistant Treasurer and Grants Professional, Ellsworth Historical Society
Organization: Assistant Treasurer and Grants Professional, Ellsworth Historical Society
