This writer remembers going in with her father and wandering through the narrow, dark aisles, piled high with boxes and barrels holding all kinds and sizes of bolts, screws, latches, nails, etc. As seen in the photograph above, it was west of Vallee Square, in the location of today’s Saccarappa Park. (You can make out the "Knight & Son", painted on the side of the building.) The store was a success for over sixty years. In later years, Leland and Robert Knight operated what was by then called, Knight’s Hardware, at the 883 Main St. and Arthur were born and educated in Westbrook. The 1909 Souvenir Illustrated magazine described the business as a "modern and spacious store.and is one of the most up-to-date and progressive stores to be found in any town or city.with the most desirable and improved features of plumbing." Brothers J.W. at 901 Main Street.,next door to Walter's shop. By 1910 he was listed as a dealer in hardware at 883 Main St.and Leland Knight was listed as being employed there. Walter was born in Windham but had lived in Westbrook for twenty years.
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The shop was listed as carrying a large, complete stock of hardware and a full line of oil and paints. Knight had a bicycling repair shop at 68 Main Street. Pete's Diner, Knight's Hardware, Kit's Smoke Shop, Edward's Block - Main StreetĪccording to the Westbrook City Directories, the name KNIGHT has been connected to Westbrook's plumbing business since the turn of the 20th Century. So, although it is no longer a market, with the advent of Casa Novello, a popular Italian Restaurant, it is still food related. Raceway Car Racing & Westbrook House of Pizza were also in this location before it became in Grocers (Ralph & Willis)-ġ953- 1961 Bi-Wise Grocers (with an apartment upstairs)ġ963-1965 Whitlock’s Used Furniture & Antiquesġ979 ME Chapter National Sclerosis Society Capeless (Michael) Groceriesġ926-1950 Pride Bros. Morrison Groceries & Provisions, 694 Mainġ915- 1926 M. (Angus) Groceries & Meats (173 Main St.)ġ909 A. The following is a list of the building’s businesses over the ensuing years:ġ900: A. The 1900 Westbrook City Directory lists the store as originally being at 173 Main Street before moving to 694 Main, across from Dunn Street, by 1909. Morrison was reported as having been born and educated in Nova Scotia but had become one of “our city’s most progressive and up-to-date citizens, interested in the welfare of the city’s people and much esteemed as a Masonic Fraternity member”. It carried a ‘select line of groceries, provisions and meat at moderate prices and employs six assistants.’ The store comprised 2,000 square feet of floor space which included the first floor and basement. Morrison & Co., at 694 Main Street, Westbrook, as a “modern up-to-date grocery house which is attractive and completely stocked”. The 1909 Illustrated Souvenir booklet of Westbrook, Windham, Gorham, a Board of Trade magazine, described A. 694 Main Street is one such building, dating back to the turn of the 20th Century. Since Urban Renewal changed the look of downtown Westbrook in the 1970s by demolishing many buildings, it’s always nice to look at the history of some of our long-standing structures.
Sketch of 694 Main Street, from 1909 Trade Journal
Second Congregational Church (Westbrook Cong.) History of a Home: Winslow-Boody, Arludo, DiBiase, Stockwell
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