Main Street, Orland, Maine 102k.

Main Street, Orland, Maine 102k.

Main Street, Orland, Maine This early 1930's photo is a view, looking east, of the homes and businesses along Main Street/Route 175/ U.S. Route 1 and the bridge over the Narramissic River. Route 1 was rerouted around the village about 40 years after this photo was taken. The first house on the left side of the street is the Orland Post Office; the postmaster lived in an apartment on the upper level. Next to it is a barbershop, which in 1944 became the post office. The third building housed the Rising Sun Lodge #71 Masonic Lodge on the second and third floor and an IGA grocery store on the ground level; it is now an antique shop. The IGA used the adjacent small building, now gone, as storage shed. The building across the bridge with the truck parked in the yard is the Oscar Facteau Repair Garage. The white house adjacent to the garage is the Henrickson residence, which burned. Across the street is the Ginn residence, which the State of Maine removed to accommodate the new bridge across the Narramissic river in 2009. The building on the west side of the bridge is the Soper Garage, where auto repairs were performed; the recently constructed F. L Davis carpenter shop now occupies it.