Canal Days

Shoals House is a Greek Revival style house. It is at 135 Main Street. It is from 1867. From 1868 to the early 1900s the Shoals family owned the house. Shoals was an artist.

Julius Pomeroy House was built in 1861 and owned by that family until 1921.

Clark and Bartlett Building was built in 1869. It was run as a meat market until 1908. From then until 1931 it was a plumbing store.

John Scott House is from 1861. This is at 117 Main St Easthampton. It stayed in the Scott family until 1919 that is 58 years. Liz Scott ran her dress making business here.

Dr. Francis Greene House is from 1850. It is at 115 Main Street. Doctor Greene practiced there from 1864 to 1912. Elisha Rice bought the land in 1849 and built a house there. It is in the Greek Revival style.

Lambie Block is from 1866. It is at 97-99 Main Street and forms the left end of Shop Row.

Winslow Block or Chapman Block is from 1866. It is at 89-95 Main Street.

Knight’s Brick Block – Preston Block is the oldest part of these blocks at a birth year of 1849. The address is 83-87 Main Street. Lucius Preston a taylor who worked in this block would own the block from 1901 to 1920 and the building came to be known as the Preston.

Union Block – Shop Row is better known as the Pomeroy Block after the person who built it. First built in 1868 and redone in 1874 after a fire. This is 75 to 81 Main Street.

Masonic Building – Shop Row is from 1861. It is at 67 to 75 Main Street. Lyman Bartlett built this building. Thomas Pomeroy would buy it in 1865 and name it after himself Pomeroy Block. (Macris) Then it known as the Merrill Block and then the White Block.

From 1912 to 1979 it was the Masonic Building.

J H Bardwell had the post office here for a while.