Flagpole installation inAugusta, ME

Flagpoles in Augusta

Maine's seat of government first and a small city second, with the courts, a hospital and a university campus set around the complex. We cover Augusta and the Kennebec County area, including the State House and the Capitol Complex, Capitol Park and the Blaine House, Water Street and the Kennebec riverfront, Old Fort Western, the Augusta Civic Center, MaineGeneral Medical Center, the University of Maine at Augusta and the Togus veterans campus east of town.

Wind here. Augusta sits in an inland, partly river-exposed area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. In Augusta the address picks the process. Inside the Capitol Area a project has to be approved by the Capitol Planning Commission before it is built, and that runs on a state calendar rather than a trip to the city counter. Capitol Park has been open ground between the State House and the river since 1827, and it served as a parade ground and an encampment through the Civil War, so placement and sightline get talked about there long before anyone talks about a pole. Five miles east at Togus is the veterans campus that opened in 1866 as the first of the national soldiers' homes, and federal ground answers to its own rules again. Down on Water Street the constraint is plain and physical: narrow frontage, tight access, and the Kennebec leaving the whole row open off the water.

Most of the people who call us from Augusta are state agencies and the offices that work with them, county and city buildings, hospitals and medical offices, veterans organisations, churches, schools and Water Street businesses.