![Located right in the heart of downtown Waterville sits one of the city’s most beloved ethnic restaurants, Cancun. This Mexican restaurant is extremely popular with Colby students who love Cancun’s […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/cancun-atmosphere-640x300.jpg "Creating Cancun: Mexican Food in Waterville")
![Levine’s, a small, family owned store, provided Waterville residents with clothing for decades. Established in 1891, Levine’s attracted a loyal customer base during its 105 years in operation and was […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/Levines-640x300.jpg "Losing Levine’s: The Disappearance of Independently Owned Stores")
![The Pugh Center is located within Cotter Union, the student center at the heart of the Colby College campus. It can be found at the end of a hallway that […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/image-640x300.jpg "Taking Stock: Multiculturalism and the Pugh Center")
![The new post office building located on College Avenue serves as an example of how capitalism has changed the built environment of Waterville, Maine. The new structure is large and […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/04/Maine-Waterville-Main-Street-051-640x300.jpg "Waterville’s Historic Post Office")
![Walking down the block from the intersection of Main Street and Temple Street, there is shift in the landscape that becomes immediately noticeable. While the entirety of Waterville’s landscape has […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/LebCuis1AM393-195x110.jpg "Hidden in Back: Lebanese Cuisine and the Lebanese-American Community in Waterville")
![Located right in the heart of downtown Waterville sits one of the city’s most beloved ethnic restaurants, Cancun. This Mexican restaurant is extremely popular with Colby students who love Cancun’s […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/cancun-atmosphere-195x110.jpg "Creating Cancun: Mexican Food in Waterville")
![Levine’s, a small, family owned store, provided Waterville residents with clothing for decades. Established in 1891, Levine’s attracted a loyal customer base during its 105 years in operation and was […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/Levines-195x110.jpg "Losing Levine’s: The Disappearance of Independently Owned Stores")
![The Pugh Center is located within Cotter Union, the student center at the heart of the Colby College campus. It can be found at the end of a hallway that […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/image-195x110.jpg "Taking Stock: Multiculturalism and the Pugh Center")
![The new post office building located on College Avenue serves as an example of how capitalism has changed the built environment of Waterville, Maine. The new structure is large and […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/04/Maine-Waterville-Main-Street-051-195x110.jpg "Waterville’s Historic Post Office")
![From 1901 to 1996 Levine’s Clothes for Men and Boys, a locally owned clothing store in Waterville, Maine, operated as one of the most popular shops in Southern Maine. Known […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/04/Concourse1AM393-195x110.jpg "Changing Main Street: Capitalism and Its Effects on Waterville")
About Waterville in Sight
This website is the product of Colby College's American Studies class, "Interpreting the American Built Environment." Throughout the semester, we have studied different techniques for interpreting the built environment and applied these methods to the Waterville landscape. Our goal here is to offer our collected writings to the broader communities that populate and interact with the environments that we have explored. You can request the course syllabus from Ben Lisle (bdlisle [at] colby.edu).Waterville in Sight
Waterville Historical Resources
Other Landscape Resources
![Walking down the block from the intersection of Main Street and Temple Street, there is shift in the landscape that becomes immediately noticeable. While the entirety of Waterville’s landscape has […]](https://web.colby.edu/built-environment/files/2012/05/LebCuis1AM393-640x300.jpg "Hidden in Back: Lebanese Cuisine and the Lebanese-American Community in Waterville")
Hidden in Back: Lebanese Cuisine and the Lebanese-American Community in Waterville
Walking down the block from the intersection of Main Street and Temple Street, there is shift in the landscape that becomes immediately noticeable. While the entirety of Waterville’s landscape has […]
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