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Franklin Square, Middletown, N. Y.
ABOVE:c1908 postcard view of Franklin Square looking down West Main Street. Ogden & Shimer's Drug Store is on the corner of West Main and South Streets, Brick building on West Main, next to the house partially visible, burned September 26, 1983, was purchased by the Arts Council, and tom down a
month later. The house next to it was tom down in 1935. BELOW: 1938 photo of South Street from the Square showing the original facade of the Savings Bank which was built 1924-5, the old bank building to its left demolished in 1982 to expand the bank, and the State Theatre, now part of the bank's parking lot.