Lewiston Housing: Capes, cottages and Maine costs
You've gotta live somewhere... right? From a Tree Streets triple decker with porch gossip Olympics to a Bates Mill District loft with exposed brick swagger, Lewiston has a variety of places and ways to make a home.
Greg, Our Local Expert Guiding Your Move
Greg moved to Maine before it was trendy, stayed when it got crowded, and 28 years later still loves it. He grew up here, went to UMaine, tried Connecticut, and survived eight years in Virginia before eventually packing up and moving back home. He is a former newspaper copy editor, pizza lover (Portland Pie, OTTO, & Cargo regular), and family man. At Snappy Scout, Greg helps newcomers decode Maine, a place that plays by its own rules and usually keeps them to itself.
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What Does Home Look Like in Lewiston?
Prices, house styles, and the rental fine print locals wish someone had told them sooner.
Home prices are
refreshingly sane for New England, rising faster than a hot air balloon at sunrise.
Homes in Lewiston are typically
older, sturdy New Englanders with big attics and porches for watching plows.
The dream house would be
riverfront brick mill loft with a kayak rack and heated mudroom.
The reality is that it will most likely be
a tired cape with vintage wallpaper, solid bones, and trusty snowblower that comes with.
I'll live anywhere except
directly under the Basilica bell when Sunday morning ambition goes down.
As long as I'm close to
Androscoggin Riverwalk, Forage bagels, Simones hot dogs, Thorncrag birds, a good snowbank.
Stereotypical architecture is
triple deckers, brick mills, capes, and stubborn granite steps, mammoth churches, that never shift.
Sought after views
Great Falls froth, Basilica spires at sunset, October that looks photoshopped.
HOAs around here are
rare, polite, mostly about plow routes and whose snowbank stole the parking.
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