Andy's Handy Store
Andy's Handy Store, colloquially known as "Handy Andy's", is a historic building in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Located at 367 Main Street, at its junction with Elm Street in the town's Upper Village, part of the building dates to 1891. It has been the home to over thirty businesses. As of early 2022, Thoroughfare occupies the entire building. The first phone call between Yarmouth and Portland was made from the premises. History. In 1807, a nail mill stood at the corner of Main Street and what was then known as Mill Street (prior  to the construction of today's Mill Street, located near to where the Forest Paper Company formerly stood). The building was later the home of the hardware store of John Ambrose Griffin (1838–1905). In 1891, Nathaniel Foster's pottery was torn down, after about fifty years in existence, and a new building was constructed in its place. Between 1906 and 1935, Arthur and Harry Storer's hardware store, Storer Bros., occupied the premises, which included a bakery run by Freeland A. Knight. Other early owners included Lester and Orland Blake. In 1935, the property became Andy's Handy Store – named  for proprietor, Leland "Andy" Anderson. A 31-year-old Anderson later combined the two wooden buildings of Griffin's and an adjacent grocery store (which sold produce "at Portland prices"). When Yarmouth's post office moved from the Brickyard Hollow section of Main Street in the late 1990s, the then owners of "Handy's", Glenn and Susan McAllister, signed a contract to provide postal services at their store. This "auxiliary mail station" status was removed in 2013, except for the sale of stamps. It became occupied by OTTO Pizza in 2014, then a grocery store and café, called The Nook , with the building known collectively as Handy's. Thoroughfare has occupied the entire building since early 2022. The Hayes family, who also own Yarmouth's The Garrison restaurant and Dandelion Catering, named it "Dandy's Handy Store" (word play on the name of the latter business) prior to converting the premises to its current format.