East Blue Hill Post Office

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The East Blue Hill Post Office is a small rural post office at 13 Curtis Cove Road in East Blue Hill, Maine. It was built by postmaster George F. Long in the 1880s or 1890s and is a rare example of a privately owned post office, not built to U.S. Postal Service standards.

Today it is owned by a local nonprofit, the East Blue Hill Village Improvement Association, and it still serves as the community post office. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

The post office is a 1.5-story wooden structure facing north. The front has two sections: a window on the left and the entrance on the right, with a small window in the gable end of the steep roof. It shows hints of Italianate style, such as a bracketed hood over the door and carved rafter tails in the gable.

There is a second, separate wood shed on the property. The Long family owned the post office for many years, with Long serving as postmaster from about 1891. The building remained in their family until 1997, when it was sold to the village association. It is notable as the only known Maine post office not owned by the USPS and not built to its standards. The state’s other non-typical post office is the Old Post Office in Liberty, a residence later adapted for postal use.