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BLAKE BLOCK
MAIN STREET, BRATTLEBORO
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The attached picture shows the Blake Block on Main Street in Brattleboro. Strange to say, the driveway to the left of the building seems to be Elliot Street.(!) This illustration was posted by Facebook's I Grew Up in Vermont group. The Blake Block may be my favorite historic Brattleboro building. It seems to have been a part of the early commercial development along Main Street that eventually led to moving the Town Hall from the West Village (West Brattleboro) to the East Village.
As far as can be told from a quick search online, Elliot Street was not significantly widened until the time of Harry Truman's presidency.(!)
The Smithsonian museum of American art has a depiction of the Blake Block right after the very destructive fire in 1869, which leveled buildings from Elliot to High Street.
