Number    00157

Scan Date   5/8/02

Time Period    1904

Subject Matter     Main Street

Location     Monroe North Carolina

The Lee Building is in the lower right-hand area of this photo - it stands at the corner of Main and Franklin.  The year "1904" can be seen handwritten on the upper right corner of the photograph.

Photographer (if known)

The steeple seen in the background is at Stewart and Windsor (the back parking lot of our current 2012 U. S. Post Office).  This was the former Central United Methodist Church building (their 2nd building which was erected around 1870).  It was moved from the corner of Windsor & Hayne (where the Monroe Hardware Warehouse loft apartments are) to this corner in 1903 as noted in The Monroe Journal, March 31, 1903, p.3:  "Workmen today began to move the old Methodist church to the lot of Messrs Shute in front of Griffin's livery stables on Windsor street."  The old church building was used by the African-American community as a colored opera house, meeting rooms and later other businesses.  Notes & description revised with additional information by Patricia Poland, Dickerson Room, Union County Public Library, 12/22/2012.

Measurements of original photograph

Height   5"

Width 7"

Type of photograph  Black and White