Capitol Park

Maine State Vietnam War memorial located in Capitol Park in front of the Statehouse on State Street.

Augusta What better place to start a guide to walks in Maine’s capital than at Capitol Park? Situated between the Statehouse and the Kenne...

Created in 1827, Capitol Park is Maine’s earliest documented designed landscape. Augusta residents donated 34 acres overlooking the Kennebec River for the future State House and landscape and planted a formal allée of elms as a dignified setting for the Capitol. In 1920 Governor Carl Milliken commissioned the Olmsted Brothers, represented by Carl Rust Parker, to prepare plans for the grounds of the Governor’s mansion (Blaine House), State House, and park. The firm completed designs in 1920 and consulted sporadically until about 1929.

Capitol Park, Augusta: See 17 reviews, articles, and 15 photos of Capitol Park, ranked No.5 on TripAdvisor among 20 attractions in Augusta.

Capitol Park is a state-owned public park in Maine's state capitol complex on the west side of Augusta, Maine. Set aside in 1827, when the complex was established, the park, set between the Maine State House and the Kennebec River, served as a parade ground and encampment site during the American Civil War, and saw agricultural use before being formally designed as a park in the 1920s by the Olmsted Brothers. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]