One of Maine's Last Historic Train Stations, Now a Dispensary, Asks $975,000
The 1911 Gardiner depot on the Kennebec River could become a restaurant with boat docks for summer boaters, its listing agent says.
The former Gardiner Railroad Station, a 1911 granite-and-brick building beside the Kennebec River, is on the market for $975,000, the Bangor Daily News reported.
The 3,439-square-foot building on Maine Avenue near downtown Gardiner sits on roughly an acre with its own 20-space parking lot, said listing agent Anna Boucher of Summit Real Estate. Portland architect George Burnham designed the Romanesque station for the Central Maine Railroad. It is one of the few former train stations still standing in Maine; the Union Stations in Bangor and Portland were torn down long ago.
Inside, the former ticket booth at the center of the main floor is used as an office, and a big clock remains suspended overhead.
Local antiques dealer Ken Tuttle, the father of Boucher's husband, bought the station in the 1980s. His properties went into a trust after he died in 2002, and Boucher's husband and a business partner have owned the building since 2006. It has housed an auto parts store and the local Boys and Girls Club, and a cannabis dispensary operates there today.
Boucher said the building's size, location and parking make it well suited to become a restaurant. She suggested that with local approval, docking slips on the river could let summer boaters stop in for a meal.
This story was first reported by Bangor Daily News.
