page_title: Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine
section_title: Main Street
hierarchical_section_title: Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine / Lower Falls / Main Street
caption_attribution_description: 49 Main Street, Yarmouth, Maine.
context_page_description: The historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine, represent a variety of building styles and usages, largely based on its past as home to almost sixty mills over a period of roughly 250 years. These mills include that of grain, lumber, pulp and cotton. Additionally, almost three hundred vessels were launched by Yarmouth's shipyards in the century between 1790 and 1890, and the homes of master shipwrights and ship captains can still be found throughout the town.
  Yarmouth's 2010 Comprehensive Plan identified "historic character" as one of five key topics facing the town. The Plan proposed policies and strategies to ensure that "buildings of historic significance will be maintained while allowing the buildings to be improved, modernized and expanded."
  In 2017, the town hired Historic Building Consultant Margaret Gaertner to conduct an historic architectural survey of the Village area of Yarmouth. This was completed in September 2018.
  The Maine Historic Preservation Commission has found many of Yarmouth's historic buildings eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, in addition to the twelve that are already included.
context_section_description: 19th- and 20th-century homes and business that existed on Main Street in Yarmouth's Lower Falls (also Falls Village or The Falls) section are listed below, roughly from east to west.
  Nicholas Grant built the main building of the since-expanded Greek Revival house at 37 Main Street, on the hill down to the harbor, around 1844.
  Henry Rowe (b. 1812, d. 1870) was the architect of the pink Gothic Revival house at 49 Main Street, which was built in 1845. Rowe also designed The Gothic House in Portland.
  50 Main Street, the three-story old Hose No. 2 at the Main Street and Marina Road split, was built for the fire department around 1889.
  Back on the northern side of the street, number 57 was built around 1813.
  Next door, number 63, was built around 36 years later, in 1849.
  76 Main Street, set back from the road, adjacent to Torrey Court, was built in 1792. The home has six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and sits on 1.6 acres.
  73 Main Street, whose left side faces the street, was once the home of Jacob G. Loring.
  In the building at 82–84 Main Street was W.N. Richards & Co. (owned by William Richards); in the 1960s Vining's delicatessen and, beside it to the west, George Soule's ice cream shop and pool hall.
  Across the street, the brick building at 85 Main Street currently occupied by Svetlana was erected around 1848.
  90 Main Street, built in 1875, was Barbour's hardware store; later Goffs hardware (1969–2015).
  Manley E. Bishop's grocery store stood to the east of the present-day Goffs building.
  Englishman James Parsons' grocery store, "a two-story building standing on the lot adjoining that where stood for so many years the little old post office". It was here that "dignified citizens like Doctor Bates, L.L. Shaw and Barnabas Freeman often assembled for an evening's chat". Parsons arrived in town around 1860 and married a very wealthy local woman.
  The post office until around 1905. The first postmaster was Payne Elwell (b. 1744, d. 1820) in 1793. (He lived in the building that is now 162 Main Street, which stands on the former site of the Knights of Pythias Hall.) He was succeeded in 1803 by Samuel P. Russell, David Drinkwater in 1804, John Hale in 1810, Daniel Mitchell in 1816, James C. Hill in 1834, Jacob G. Loring in 1842 and Reuben Cutter in 1845. When the town split occurred, the office name was changed in 1852 to Yarmouth from North Yarmouth. Reuben Cutter resumed the role, and was followed by Otis Briggs Pratt in 1861 and Nicholas Drinkwater in 1866. Lucy V. Groves was appointed in 1868, becoming the first woman named or elected to an official position in the town of Yarmouth. Lucy Q. Cutter succeeded her in 1887, Melville C. Merrill in 1898, Frank Howard Drinkwater in 1911, Frank O. Wellcome in 1914 and Ernest C. Libby in 1936.
  Cornelius Shaw's Cash Market (1899). The plural version, Shaws', appeared on the sign, meaning it was a family business.
  At today's 91 Main Street is the former Captain Thomas Chase Store, built around 1819. Between 1895 and 1929 it was Leon Doughty's stove and hardware store, L.A. Doughty & Co. It is now Snip 'N Clip Hair Designs, still with the windows that were installed in 1932. Doughty moved across the street, into the building to be later occupied by L.R. Doherty's hardware store, Barbour's and Goffs, when his business expanded.
  William Freeman's hairdressing salon (located above Doughty's before its move). Freeman lived on Lafayette Street. He had at least two children: William and Jennie.
  Cyrus Curtis' Saturday Evening Post publishers.
  The millinery shop of Susan Kinghorn (located at the eastern corner of Main and Portland Streets in the building now occupied by Rosemont Market); between 1942 and 1953 [Harold B.] Allen's Variety Store, then Daken's, Romie's, Lindahl's, Donatelli's Pizza, Denucci's Pizza (briefly) and Connor's.
  Elder Rufus York's general store (located in the brick building now occupied by Runge's Oriental Rug store at 108 Main Street, on the western corner of the Portland Street intersection; later William Hutchinson Rowe's, then Melville Merrill's, then Frank W. Bucknam's Pharm
caption: 49 Main Street was built in 1845