Main Street looking east from the area of Saco Street, as it looked in the early 1900s, left photo. Trolley car tracks that turned into the old trolley car barn located at Main and Saco streets are visible in the street. Buildings on the right are long gone, replaced by newer buildings. The building in the foreground on the left is still standing. It was originally built in the 1840s as a Universalist Church and is now vacant. The next two buildings are 907 Main St., and the Armory Apartments at 901 Main St., which are still standing. The large building in the distance is the Warren Block, also known as the Vallee Block on Main Street at Bridge Street. This building is now a one-story commercial block – the upper two-and-a-half stories were destroyed in a fire on Feb. 14, 1942. The other buildings in the photo are also long gone. The photo on the right is the same view, more than 100 years later.

Research and photos courtesy of Mike Sanphy