Main St. Limerick, Me. 43a.

Main St. Limerick, Me. 43a.

"Main St. Limerick, Me. 43a." An early 20th century view of the broad dirt Main Street of Limerick showing several structures housing businesses and the bandstand and Academy/Oddfellows Hall at the end of the street. Three early automobiles are parked along the side of the street. The buildings are, from the center of the image, from left to right, an 1830s or '40s Greek Revival house renovated in the 1890s or early 1900s with a storefront, a 1910's American Foursquare house with a ground floor business, and a single-story 20th century commercal building on the right. An early gasoline pump stands in the street beside the sidewalk in front of the central business. Signs mounted on the building advertise "Goodrich Tires" and "S & H Green trading Stamps". The store on the right is Swasey's, which offered undertaking in addition to furniture and newspapers. According to Thomas LePage, "All of the buildings here remain today (2019). The first store on the right was built after a fire in 1917 wiped out two buildings." Note the telephone poles, which bear their spruce trunk origins.