Kittery Community Center, Kittery

Name: Kittery Community Center
Address: Kittery, United States

#18 among attractions in Kittery

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The Kittery Community Center is located in the former Frank C. Frisbee Elementary School at 120 Rogers Road in Kittery, Maine. The building, built in 1943 by the United States government as part of war-related expansions of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 for this association. It served Kittery as a school until 2009, and was converted for use as a multi-function community center providing space for arts, culture, and recreational activities in 2011-12. ()

Built: 1943 (81 years ago)Coordinates: 43°5'51"N, 70°44'10"W

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Kittery United States

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Kittery Community Center – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Kittery Historical & Naval Museum, Rice Public Library, Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, Samuel Badger Monument.

0.4 miNW
43°6'7"N • 70°44'32"W
Kittery Historical & Naval Museum, Kittery
11 min walk • Military museum, Museum, Specialty museum
0.8 miSW
Library, Romanesque architecture
Rice Public Library, Kittery
21 min walk • The Rice Public Library is the public library of Kittery, Maine. It is located at 8 Wentworth Street in the central Kittery Foreside village, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival building built in 1889 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
1.3 miSW
Bridge
Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, Portsmouth
35 min walk • The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge is a lift bridge spanning the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, carrying traffic of U.S. Route 1 Bypass. An original bridge by the same name was in operation from 1940 until 2016. A replacement span opened in March 2018.
0.9 miSW
Memorial
Samuel Badger Monument, Kittery
23 min walk • The Samuel Badger Monument is one of the most distinctive examples of funerary art in the United States state of Maine. Located in a small private cemetery in Kittery, it depicts the locally important shipbuilding magnate Samuel Badger.
0.8 miSW
Greek Revival architecture
Robert and Louisa Traip House, Kittery
22 min walk • The Robert and Louisa Traip House is a historic house at 2 Wentworth Street in Kittery, Maine. Built about 1839, it is a rare statewide example of a Greek Revival house with colonnaded sides.
0.8 miSW
Greek Revival architecture
Mark F. and Eliza J. Wentworth House, Kittery
21 min walk • The Mark F. and Eliza J. Wentworth House is a historic house at 9 Wentworth Street in Kittery, Maine. Probably built in the second quarter of the 19th century and given Italianate styling c. 1866, it is notable for its association with Mark Fernald Wentworth, a distinguished physician and decorated veteran of the American Civil War.
1.1 miSW
Interesting neighbourhood
John Paul Jones Memorial Park, Kittery
29 min walk • John Paul Jones Memorial Park is a municipal park in the town of Kittery, Maine. The trapezoidal park, flanked by the lanes of United States Route 1 approaching the Memorial Bridge across the Piscataqua River, was established in 1926 and named for American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones.
1.2 miS
Neighbourhood
Piscataqua River border dispute, Kittery
32 min walk • The Piscataqua River border dispute was a dispute between the US states of Maine and New Hampshire over ownership of Seavey’s Island in the Piscataqua River, which forms the border between Maine and New Hampshire. The dispute was settled in 2002 by the US Supreme Court in favor of Maine.

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Which popular attractions are close to Kittery Community Center?

Nearby attractions include Kittery Historical & Naval Museum, Kittery (11 min walk), Rice Public Library, Kittery (21 min walk), Mark F. and Eliza J. Wentworth House, Kittery (21 min walk), Robert and Louisa Traip House, Kittery (22 min walk).