Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

Main Street, between Chestnut and Avon Streets, circa 1905

Description

"The Wakefield National Bank, later the Wakefield Trust Company, purchased the Hannah S. Brown land at the northwest corner of Main and Chestnut Streets in the early 1900s, and erected the building in 1902. The bank, incorporated as the South reading Mechanical and Agricultural Institution in 1833, shared the building with the Wakefield Savings Bank, now The Savings Bank, from 1902 to 1924, when the Trust Company moved into its new building across Chestnut Street. the building on the corner of Avon Street was known as the Flanery Building, and later as the Odd Fellows Building. Erected in the late 1890s, a fire gutted the interior of the building in January 1997. The building was renovated and restored by The Savings Bank, which now occupies the building. The Mansfield, estate, now the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, is pictured at the right."

Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2012

Photo courtesy of JC Marketing Associates

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Main Street (Wakefield, Mass.)

Date

ca. 1905

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Subject

Banks and banking

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture: b & w

Extent

31 x 18 cm.