Beautification & Design
The Design Committee supports a community’s transformation by enhancing the physical and visual elements of downtown while capitalizing on the unique assets that set the commercial district apart, encouraging the peservation of the built environment, visitation, community pride, and volunteer opportunities for our residents and businesses. The committee meets year-round six times a year. Between meetings, committee members work to implement projects and initiatives.
Do you have an idea for a project and/or want to join the Design Committee?
Design Committee members from left to right: Susan Meynell, Amy Reisman, Peter Lione, Lucille Poulin
I want to support downtown beautification
Do you love the flower pots on Main Street or the planters on the bridge? Please support our work. Be sure when you choose where to apply your donation, you select downtown beautification.
Downtown Wayfinding Map
A community project to assist visitors navigate the downtown district. Insulation crew from left to right: Peter Lione, Phyllis and Reg Young.
The wayfinding map above was created to showcase Downtown Ellsworth offerings and to assist visitors, newcomers, and residents in the exploration of our Main Street district. The map is available for download by clicking the button below. Please check out the life-size version located in the Outdoor Dining Parklet on Franklin Street in downtown Ellsworth and download the PDF below.
Flower Pots on Main Street
The Flower Pots on Main Street program began when the former Downtown Merchants Association made a concerted effort to beautify the Main Street corridor in the 1970s for all residents and visitors to enjoy. By 2010 the effort became a more structured community project. Since 2016, Heart of Ellsworth has worked with Simons Hancock Farms to place ten flower pots on Main Street and six flower boxes on the bridge. Community volunteers work together to keep the pots watered and looking their best. Each season we partner with volunteers to water the pots weekly during the summer and fall seasons. Would you like to help? Click the green button below to sign up for a week of watering.
I want to water the flowers!
Even the youngest of volunteers can participate in watering the flowers on Main Street
Holiday Lights on Main Street
Each holiday season the Design Committee lights up downtown Ellsworth thanks to financial support from First National Bank. 38 of Main Street’s iconic lamp posts twinkle in an environmentally sound way with commercial-grade, encased LED marine lights powered by the City of Ellsworth.
