Freeport Village and Mast Landing
The village is the only part of Freeport where you can walk to the train, the library, the school and a quart of milk, and houses here sell to people who want exactly that. It is also where most of what is being built in Freeport will go. The 2025 comprehensive plan puts the town's growth in three districts along Route 1, with the Downtown Village at the center, and the condo project approved at 45 Depot Street is the first of what that plan allows.
History
Freeport Corner was the farm crossroads where the Portland road met the roads to the landings. The railroad arrived in 1849, shoe factories followed, and Leon Leonwood Bean opened his shop on Main Street in 1912. Mast Landing, a mile east at the head of the Harraseeket, is older than the village and part of the Harraseeket Historic District. It shipped masts for the Royal Navy, and a dam there powered a gristmill, a sawmill and a fulling mill. The mill village is now the Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary, 140 acres of trails off Upper Mast Landing Road, and the surviving houses along Bow Street and Mast Landing Road are among the oldest in town.
The houses
Village capes and New Englanders from 1850 to 1930 on West Street, Holbrook Street, School Street and the streets behind Main. A few newer infill houses and the Meadows condominiums. Along Bow Street toward Mast Landing the lots open up to 2 acres or more, with mid century ranches and contemporaries looking over the estuary. Village lots are on public water and sewer. Bow Street lots are often half shoreland and half not, and Frost Gully Brook and the Harraseeket marsh set the setback.
Trails and landmarks
L.L.Bean's flagship and the summer concert series on the lawn. The Downeaster station at Depot Street. The Freeport Community Library. The Freeport Historical Society at Harrington House on Main Street, which runs a downtown walking tour. Bow Street Market and the Friday farmers market in Memorial Park. Leon Gorman Park and the trails behind Mast Landing School. Pettengill Farm, the Historical Society's saltwater farm on the estuary. Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary. Portland is 20 minutes by car and 35 by train.
The market
The village has fewer sales than most of Freeport because few houses here change hands, and most of what does sell is a cape or New Englander on a small lot with town water and sewer. New construction here is infill, including the condominiums approved at 45 Depot Street. Based on information from the Maine Real Estate Information System, Inc. (d/b/a Maine Listings) for the period October 2024 through October 2026. © 2026 Maine Listings.
Balsam listed and sold 137 Bow Street twice, in 2021 and 2024, a 1959 mid century house on 2.5 acres with frontage on Frost Gully Brook and a view over the estuary.
What we check before a listing here goes live
Whether the lot is in the Village districts or the Rural Residential district, since the line runs close to Bow Street and changes what can be added. Sewer and water connections and any assessment. The shoreland map for anything near the brook or the marsh. The age of the house, which on village streets is usually older than the tax card says.
What is my Freeport Village home worth?
See the other Freeport areas, or read how we sell a house in Freeport.
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