Unique Companies
Unique Creative Economy Businesses in the Twin Cities
Harriman Associates Architects & Engineers - 1 Auburn Business Park, Auburn (Designers of community projects such as the new Auburn Hall and Bates College’s Carnegie Science Building)
Platz Associates - Great Falls Plaza, Auburn (Designers of the Bates Mill redevelopment, the Business Service Center, and several of the area’s beautiful parking garages)
In-Depth Archaeology - 382 College Street, Lewiston (One of the re
gions few archaeologists)
Ware Street Inn - 52 Ware Street, Lewiston/Munroe Inn, 123 Pleasant Street, Auburn (If you’ve tasted Ware Street owner Jan Barrett’s breakfasts or Munroe co-owner Connie Zimmerman’s full-course dinners, you’ll be a true believer in culinary art)
McIntosh & Tuttle Cabinetmakers - 41 Chestnut Street, Lewiston (Cabinetry as functional art)
Fishbones - Bates Mill Complex, Lewiston (Seafood as art)
Dore’s Café - 20 Union Street, Auburn (Try a pastry and hear the muses sing)
Massage therapists - ( I’m not selecting any single one, but consider the magic fingers that work out the week’s tension and stress)
Plantasia Florals - 144 Main Street, Auburn (Granted, God deserves credit too, but spouses everywhere are indebted to these artists who masterfully blend color and fragrance to cast a spell or break a curse on many a relationship)
Creative Forensic Services - 11 Elmwood Road, Auburn (Arlo West’s creative detective work is used for audio recovery for crime cases)
Encompass Marketing & Design - 162 Main Street, Auburn (Love them or hate them, ad agencies make us pay attention to people, places, and things; this Auburn firm is really good at it)
Belle Decorating - 3 Bosse Street, Lewiston (Talk about creative: Michelle Davis will redesign a living room or family room by rearranging your home’s existing furniture and accessories)
Landscaping companies - (I can’t vouch for any particular one, but landscaping is nothing short of using the earth to convey a sense of space)
It’s Magic - 117 Gamage Avenue, Auburn (Bob Nixon does magic at public events and private parties – hard to argue magic isn’t art)
Katahdin Music Works - (John Stass offers custom-made music stands with some of the most elegant wood I’ve ever seen)
The Maine Bucket Company - Fireslate Place, Lewiston (Big buckets, small buckets, popcorn pails, interlocking display stands – these guys have built quite a business on functional wood)
New England School of Metalwork - 22 Albiston Way, Auburn (A subsidiary of MaineOxy, they teach welders how to be master blacksmiths)
Penmor Lithographers, 8 Lexington Street - Lewiston (A quality printer can make a good brochure a stunning one, and these folks make brochures come to life)
Maine Proofreading Services - 55 Lisbon Street, Lewiston (When you read a good book, you may heap praise on the author, but it’s often the proofreader that helps make that paragraph clear or memorable)
Coastal T-shirts - 194 Turner Street, Auburn; Action Printing, 41 Chestnut Street, Lewiston (It’s art on your back)
Neokraft Sign Co. - 686 Main Street, Lewiston (They make logos and artwork come to life on walls, street corners, and signposts)
