LB2007.1.70189

LB2007.1.70189

Main Street from Post Office, August 7, 1907. On the left is the Alden D. Chase dry & fancy good store. Next to the store 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 the drug store. On the right, in the flatiron building, is the Belfast National Bank, later reorganized as the City National Bank. In 1909, City National Bank purchased the A. D. Chase store at the corner of Main and Church Street, razed it, and built 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. Proceeding toward the intersection of High Street (the Masonic Temple Building is on the right corner) is the Oddfellows building (large block shaped building and later the home of a F. W. Woolworth store) on the right.