Northeast

Brunswick

Cumberland County, ME

Population

21,691

Walk Score

90 · Very Walkable

Median rent

$1,231

Median home value

$316,200

Settled

1628

Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Brunswick is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 21,756 at the 2020 United States Census. Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, and the Maine State Music Theatre. It was formerly home to the U.S. Naval Air Station Brunswick, which closed in 2011 and has since been partially released to redevelopment as "Brunswick Landing".

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On the National Register

Historic districts

  • Brunswick Commercial Historic District · listed 2016
  • Crystal Spring Farm · listed 2004
  • Federal Street Historic District · listed 1976
  • Lincoln Street Historic District · listed 1976
  • Pennellville Historic District · listed 1985
  • Whittier Field Athletic Complex · listed 2017

Notable landmarks

  • Androscoggin Swinging Bridge · listed 2004
  • Boody, Henry, House · listed 1975
  • Cleaveland, Parker, House · listed 2000
  • Dunlap, John, House · listed 1979
  • First Parish Church · listed 1969
  • Harpswell Meetinghouse · listed 1968
  • Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College · listed 1971
  • Paradise Spring
  • Richardson House · listed 1974
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church · listed 1978
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, House · listed 1966
  • Winthrop Hall

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