North corner of Main St. and E. Union St.
Constructed by Standard Oil Company in 1930, the original brick portion of this building epitomizes the first wave of “filling stations” constructed to meet the needs of the burgeoning automobile age in its small size and low-pitched roof which extends as a canopy over the gasoline pump island. The building is positioned to address the intersection at which it is strategically located. After World War II, the station expanded its operation with the cinder block addition containing two service bays facing Union St.
Likens Building, 237 Main St.
In 1937, shortly after purchasing the property, druggist Thomas F. Likens and his son and partner, Arnold F. Likens had this two-story, brick-veneered tile building constructed as new quarters for their drug store and other retail establishments on the first floor and apartments on the second. The building is characteristic of its period in its flat elevations with a minimum of decoration including string courses in simple brick patterns and slight corbelling at the cornice. Stone appears as window sills, roof coping and the name plate in the upper main facade. Stone used for string courses and keystones and mason stops at the arches framing the recessed corner entrance also highlight the corner unit occupied by the pharmacy. Likens Drug Company originated as Hartford Drug Company in 1908 under the direction of G. B. Likens, Thomas Likens’s father.