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Description
Leavitt & Company, Main Street, Sanford, ca 1892. Alonzo Leavitt, an Alfred merchant and clothing manufacturer since the 1860s, built this store in 1891 or 1892 and moved his business to Sanford. At the same time he put up the small building to the right, first occupied by J.M. Goodrich, undertaker. Mr. Goodrich, probably the man standing in the door, was a tenant for only one year, 1892, which enables this photograph to be accurately dated. Sometime before 1910, probably in 1908 or 1909, Frank Leavitt, Alonzo's son, converted the larger building into the movie house called the Theatre Comique. The third floor was removed and a flat roof placed over trhe second story to give it a more modern look. The building was also lengthened about 20 feet. Business was so good that in July 1910 he annnounced the construction of a new theater at the same location. The Theatre Comique was sold to Father McGinnis of S. Ignatius and moved around the corner to Wentworth Street where it was used for a parochial school and parish hall. In 2005 this site at the corner of Main and Winter Streets was occupied by the 7-Eleven store.
About This Item
- Title: Leavitt & Company, Main Street, Sanford, ca. 1892
- Creation Date: 1892
- Subject Date: 1892
- Location: Sanford, York County, ME
- Media: Print from Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 11.46 cm x 17.06 cm
- Local Code: B143
- Collection: Index to the Glass Negatives
- Object Type: Image
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- Theaters--Maine--Sanford
- Theatre Comique (Sanford, Me.)
- Stores & shops--Maine
- Leavitt and Company (Sanford, Me.)
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Sanford-Springvale Historical SocietyP. O. Box 276 505 Main Street, Springvale, ME 04083
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