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Nearly all of the lots on both the east and west sides of the 800 block of Main Street historically <br />held residences. The 1893 Sanborn fire insurance map shows twelve dwellings along Main <br />Street between Spruce and Walnut, with just two buildings at the northeast corner of Main and <br />Spruce being used as businesses. The following Sanborn maps for 1893, 1900, and 1908 are <br />shown here with the properties of 820, 836, and 844 Main outlined in red: <br />SPRUCE <br />In adherence with this pattern, the three properties in question were all residential or still <br />contain parts that were residential going far into the second half of the twentieth century. They <br />2 <br />