Sodergren, John J. and Martha, Homestead

Also known as: Sodergren Farm
161 S. Shore Rd., Stockholm, Maine

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Coordinates:
+47.03414, -68.17684
47°02'03" N, 68°10'37" W

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Description

Criterion A: Exploration and Settlement, Ethnic Heritage, and Criterion C: Architecture The Sodergren Farm in Stockholm was settled in 1884 by the Sodergren family, who, like many Swedes in the decade before, had immigrated to the Swedish colony of Aroostook County in northern Maine. The farm contains a modest, but little altered, one-story log house set on a slight knoll and surrounded by fields that the family has tended for almost 125 years. With the exception of a frame kitchen addition that was removed in 1963 the Sodergren House has undergone almost no modernization or alteration, thus rendering it possibly the most authentic 19th century log house known in the Aroostook County Swedish settlement area. This property was listed

National Register information

Status: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 2007
Reference number: 06001222
Architectural style: Other architectural type; Log House
Areas of significance: Architecture; Exploration/Settlement; Ethnic Heritage - European
Level of significance: Local
Evaluation criteria: A - Event; C - Design/Construction
Property type: District
Historic functions: Single dwelling; Agricultural fields
Current function: Agricultural fields
Period of significance: 1875-1899
Significant year: 1884
Number of properties: Contributing buildings: 1
Contributing sites: 1
Non-contributing buildings: 1
Non-contributing structures: 2

Sources

Brian Bartlett - worumbo [at] gmail [dot] com
Wikipedia
National Register database - Reference number 06001222 (Search for documents)