Fort Fairfield–Andover Border Crossing

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Coordinates: 46°45′55″N 67°47′22″W / 46.765331°N 67.789389°W / 46.765331; -67.789389
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Fort Fairfield–Andover Border Crossing
The US Border Inspection Station at Fort Fairfield, ME
Location
CountryUnited States; Canada
Location
  • SR 161 / Route 190
  • US Port: 4 Boundary Line Road, Fort Fairfield, ME 04742
  • Canadian Port: 6 Route 190, Carlingford NB E7H 5H6
Coordinates46°45′55″N 67°47′22″W / 46.765331°N 67.789389°W / 46.765331; -67.789389
Details
Opened1873
US Phone(207) 473-7474
Canadian Phone(506) 273-2073
HoursOpen 24 hours
Website
U.S. Inspection Station-Fort Fairfield, Maine
MPS
U.S. Border Inspection Stations MPS
NRHP reference No.14000555
Added to NRHPSeptember 10, 2014

The Fort Fairfield–Andover Border Crossing is an international border crossing between the towns of

Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842.[1]

United States station

Fort Fairfield border station as seen in 1934

Open 24 hours a day,[2] the United States border station is located about 100 feet (30 m) west of the international border, on the north side of Boundary Line Road. It consists of a single Colonial Revival brick building, with flanking garage sections (for performing vehicle inspections), and a projecting two-lane porte-cochere. The building is 1+1⁄2 stories in height, five bays wide, and topped by a gable roof. On either side are banks of four garage bays, some of which have been repurposed as office space and no longer serve their historic function. The main entrance to the building is now through a lobby area in one of the former garage bays on the west side. The interior of the building is divided into sections for customs and immigration processing respectively.[3]

Prior to the construction of this station, customs and immigration formalities took place at offices in the town of Fort Fairfield. With the advent of increased automobile traffic in the 1920s, as well as the need to interdict the movement of contraband liquor due to

United States Treasury Department, and was built in 1933 with funding from the Public Works Administration. It is the only surviving station of this type to retain the original height of its porte-cochere. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 for its architecture and historical associations.[3]

Canada Border Inspection station

The Canada

border station is one of the few on the border that is larger than the US station.[2] It includes two buildings.[4] The current border station was built in 2007. Prior to that, Canada used a 1950s-era brick facade template similar to that still in use at the Piegan–Carway Border Crossing
.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Aroostook War". Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  2. ^ a b "Chapter 1: Eastern Maine". United Divide: A Linear Portrait of the USA/Canada Border. The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Winter 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  3. ^ a b Paul, Daniel; Starzak, Richard (2011). NRHP nomination for US Border Crossing - Fort Fairfield; available by request from the Maine SHPO
  4. ^ "Andover border crossing". Retrieved 2014-09-01.
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