Bank building after fire, January 1941

Bank building after fire, January 1941

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Title:
Bank building after fire, January 1941
Description:
Photo taken after a fire at so-called Bank Building. Depicted are the Hopkinton Post Office and Crockett's Pharmacy. Photo captures a police officer and four onlookers. Over central entrance to building is the name "Masonic Hall". Building is three stories high. Post Office and pharmacy are on street level. Most windows are broken from the fire and icicles have formed. Photographer titled photo as "Bank Building". The bank was a one-story annex to the three-story Masonic Hall. The building was located on the north side of Main Street immediately west of Cedar Street. A gas station is now located there.
Date:
January 11, 1941
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Hopkinton Historical Society
Museum/History Center
Collection 2, Box 8, Folder 12 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Photographs of Hopkinton Places and People
Subjects:
Banks
Fires
Accidents
Drugstores
Post offices
Masonic buildings
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Hopkinton
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 3 x 4.5 in.
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Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item or accompanying material.
1000.001.447 and 1000.001.448: A series of photos taken shortly after a fire that damaged the Bank Building on Main Street in Hopkinton on Jan. 11, 1941. Other onlookers can be seen in one photo.
Preferred Citation:
Courtesy of Hopkinton Historical Society
Notes (date):
Date from item or accompanying material.
Notes (object):
Original photograph.
Bending, mild sepia tone.
Identifier:
1000.001.447