Photo 96-AKE-3

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1022 Main (bottom left), 1032 Main (center- burned), and 12 Back Main (left), Vassalboro, ME.
Starting at the bottom left, 1022 Main Street, originally mill working house, still stands and looks much the same as seen here. The barn in the back was lost long before 2007, as were the chimneys, but few other changes have occurred to this home.
The home behind it, today 12 Back Main Street, was demolished or burned sometime prior to 2007 and was replaced with small home, possible a manufactured home. No remnants of this property exist today.
The property at 1032 Main Street (center) still stood relatively unchanged until the late 2010s, including maintaining the stylistic choices in the front porch and the overall look of the house. On April 19, 2017 a fire broke out in this house, and by the morning of the 20th the home was a blackened shell that was unsalvageable. The garage at the rear, which had since added a balcony above the doors, survived the fire but was demolished in 2018-2019. Since then a new (possibly manufactured) house was built on the spot where the original home say, and a new one car garage was build near the flag pole in this picture.

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