LIVERMORE FALLS — A review board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission is expected to consider the nomination of Maine’s Paper and Heritage Museum on Jan. 23 for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Christi Mitchell, a National Register coordinator and state architectural historian for the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, has worked to prepare the nomination for the Livermore Falls museum.

The nomination is a report describing the building and analyzing why it is important to the local community, Mitchell said Monday. The nomination is prepared according to detailed state and federal guidelines.

If the state commission accepts it, Mitchell will send the nomination and photos to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., she said. Mitchell estimates it will take three to four months to find out if the museum will be placed on the list.

The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation, according to its website, www.state.me.us/mhpc/national_register.

Authorized under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Register is part of a program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect the country’s historic and archaeological resources.

The property is going to be listed under the historic name “Judson Record House” in recognition of the person for whom the building was first built, Mitchell said.

The Livermore Falls Board of Selectmen asked Town Manager Kristal Flagg to send a letter in support of the museum to the commission on Jan. 6.

In 2002, a “group of people dedicated to preserving the history of the paper industry in Maine came together to establish Maine’s Paper & Heritage Museum, with the common goal of capturing the cultural heritage of the papermaking towns and mills along the Androscoggin River,” according to www.papermuseumofmaine.org.

Initially, the name of the museum was Western Maine Paper & Heritage Museum.

Directors have applied previously, but the application did not move forward at that time, Vice President Sherry Judd said. Among the benefits of being on the list is being eligible for certain grants.

International Paper, which previously owned the Androscoggin Mill in Jay before it was sold to Verso Paper Corp. in 2006, donated a house at 22 Church St. in Livermore Falls in 2007 to become the paper museum. The building was built in 1906 for the Record Family.

In 1917, then-owner William Murray signed over the property to IP, and it became the residence for IP’s paper mill managers. In the 1970s, the company turned the house into offices for its regional forest resources team, IP said in a news release. The company kept the property when the mill was sold to Verso.

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