Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
At the center of the photo of Main Street in Milbridge is the J. F. Leighton Co. that was owned by Joseph Leighton and later by his son, Chauncey.
The store sold clothes and shoes for the family as well as goods for sewing. The second floor was the telephone office for many years, owned by Mildred and Frank Bixby. Cora Kelley and Harriet Shaw worked as the telephone operators.
The store became the Milbridge Pharmacy, and the second floor an apartment.
To the right of J. F. Leighton’s is the law office of Henry Sawyer. The law office was a Sears Roebuck house, one of the more than 400 styles of ready-to-assemble house kits sold by the company as between 1908 and 1940. The building was moved across the street and was a real estate office in 2013.
The local post office was located to the left of Leighton’s store. The building had at one time been a drugstore and then an optometrist’s office.
About This Item
- Title: Main Street, Milbridge, ca. 1915
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Milbridge, Washington County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.116458
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Houses--Maine--Milbridge
- Law offices--Maine--Milbridge
- Clothing stores--Maine--Milbridge
- Buildings--Maine--Milbridge
- Postcards--Maine
- Stores & shops--Maine--Milbridge
- Photographs--Maine
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Drugstores--Maine--Milbridge
- Sears, Roebuck and Company. Department of Building Material for Modern Houses
- Main Street (Milbridge, Me.)
- Streets--Maine--Milbridge
- City & town life--Maine--Milbridge
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