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Greater Nashua Flashback

By Staff | Dec 17, 2022

(From The Telegraph files) The address "50 Main St." is written on the back of this vintage photo, but given there is no such address today, this large retail and residential building may have stood on the southeast corner of Main Street adjacent to the Nashua River, where The Nashua Telegraph Building -- the former home The Telegraph at 60 Main St. -- is today. It appears to have been taken around the turn of the 20th century, and while directories from that era also don't list a 50 Main St., the store or stores run by Barnard, Kittredge and Barr are listed separately, with James Barnard's hardware store at 70 Main St., and the J.N. Barr & Co., a flour and grain store, at 48 Main St., which of course is today the address of Peddlers Daughter -- on the other side of the river. Also listed at 52 Main St. are the offices of the Nashua Light, Heat and Power Company, along with a showroom for "gas cooking stoves" for sale. There are several Kittredges listed in a period directory, but none of them have an address in this area.

The address ’50 Main St.’ is written on the back of this vintage photo, but given there is no such address today, this large retail and residential building may have stood on the southeast corner of Main Street adjacent to the Nashua River, where The Nashua Telegraph Building – the former home The Telegraph at 60 Main St. – is today. It appears to have been taken around the turn of the 20th century, and while directories from that era also don’t list a 50 Main St., the store or stores run by Barnard, Kittredge and Barr are listed separately, with James Barnard’s hardware store at 70 Main St., and the J.N. Barr & Co., a flour and grain store, at 48 Main St., which of course is today the address of Peddlers Daughter – on the other side of the river. Also listed at 52 Main St. are the offices of the Nashua Light, Heat and Power Company, along with a showroom for “gas cooking stoves” for sale. There are several Kittredges listed in a period directory, but none of them have an address in this area.