Upper Main St. Winterport Me. 35a.

Upper Main St. Winterport Me. 35a.

"Upper Main St. Winterport Me. 35a." Upper Main St., Street Scene, Buildings, Stores, Sign [Hand Laundry], People, 2 Horses, Carriages, Dog Upper Main Street, Winterport, Maine ca. 1910 On the left of the photograph (the East side of the street) is the Commercial House, built in 1893. It had been an inn and a restaurant and is currently (in 2016) an antique store as well as a B&B for overnight guests. Adjacent to this building was a livery stable, and next to this building was a garage, later a filling station owned by Wellman family. Next to that was a small white building beside the old Town Hall. These last three buildings are no longer there, and now the buildings belonging to Dickel Flooring business and Dino's Diner. On the right side of the picture (the West side of the street) the white building on the corner of Main St. and Lebanon Rd., housed the telephone office and a meat market owned by Joe Eldridge at one time. The brick building to left of the white building housed a hardware store run by James Foley, and a beer parlor run by Steve Foley. Between these two buildings was a small narrow building called Kelly Hose #1, which housed a fire pumper. The tower seen in the picture was used to dry the water hose. Note the wonderful old elm trees on each side of the road as well as the horse and buggy parked on the wrong side of the road. People were still parking on the wrong side of the road in the 1950s and 1960s which occurred until the road was recently improved. Caption Information Provided by Teddy Weston and Donald Nelson