From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2018.10.95
Color transparency of High Street in downtown Belfast ME in the mid 1950s, when diagonal parking was the norm. In the foreground on the right is the Colonial Inn, where a fire that started in its coffee shop destroyed the building in September 1958; it was the deadliest fire in Belfast history. Next door is the Windsor Hotel, which served Belfast for 108 years and was the last of Belfast's downtown hotels until it burned in August 1960. The Masonic Building, with a round sign extending over the High Street sidewalk, stands at the corner of High and Main Streets
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LB2018.10.95
