Main Street from P. O. Square, Belfast, Maine a 15

Main Street from P. O. Square, Belfast, Maine a 15

"Main Street from P. O. Square, Belfast, Maine a 15" Main Street, Belfast, Maine "Looking down Main Street from the Customs House and Post Office with the City National Bank, the Belfast Savings Bank, the Odd Fellows Block, and the Masonic Hall." --Earle Shettleworth, 2011 In 1909, City National Bank which had recently been reorganized from Belfast National Bank (located in the flat iron building across Main Street), purchases the A. D. Chase store at the corner of Main and Church Street, razes it, and builds a new bank which includes the old bank's massive concrete & steel vault with William Swan as president and Clement Wescott as head cashier. In 1933, City National Bank liquidates and reorganizes as First National Bank with Harold Stone as its president. It continued to be the last locally owned bank until it merged with Depositor's Trust of Augusta in 1960. Next to the bank is City Drug. Dr. Augustus Kilgore, a local physician and partner of long term mayor, Edgar Hanson at Dana's Sarsaparilla, had offices on the floor above. On the opposite side of Main Street beginning at Post Office Square and proceeding toward the intersection of High Street (the Masonic Temple Building is on the right corner), one finds a jewelry store (probably Locke's) in the old Belfast National Bank Building (flatiron). The movie poster at the corner of the building advertises the movie "To the Ends of the Earth" which was released in 1948, thereby dating this photo. Next is the Yankee Doodle Restaurant operated by Colonel Greene's daughter in the store that had previously housed Southworth's Clothing. Store. This followed by Gloria's Beauty Parlor and Berrie's Jewelry and the two storefronts of F. W. Woolworth Co.