MAINE, Maurice Francis (1881-1950), a prominent architect in Minneapolis, Minn. who was credited with a large summer residence in the Rainy Lake District of northern Ontario. Built for Capt. F.H. French, and located on FRENCH ISLAND, RAINY LAKE, ONT., about 8 km. east of Fort Frances, and west of Sand Point Island Provincial Park, this substantial complex was estimated to cost $200,000 in 1930, and it included a 16 room summer residence, boat house, studio, guest cottage, and laundry building (C.R., xliv, 8 Oct. 1930, 64).
Born in Rockland, Maine, USA on 6 February 1881, he went to Minnesota about 1900 and was educated at Hamline University in St. Paul and may have trained under William M. Kenyon. Together, they formed a partnership in 1913 and continued to work together until 1929. From 1930 Maine operated his own office; one of his first commissions was for the resort complex near Fort Frances, Ont., as described above. Maine died in Minneapolis on 10 September 1950 (biog. Alan K. Lathrop, Minnesota Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 2010, 149-50).