Crandall Block. This three-story wood-frame building was erected by Emerson S. Crandall in 1893 on the west side of Main Street occupying, much of the property between Water Street and Herrick Avenue. It was 60 feet deep and 100 feet long and it boasted the first cement sidewalk in town. There were five stores on the ground floor, and six large seven-room flats on the second and third floors. Additionally, two large halls were available for public entertainment on the third floor. The building burned the night of February 9, 1927.
The Dickinson and Bertrand drug store was started in 1878 by George W. Dickinson and Louis C. Charette and was located in the Hunt building on Main Street. A year later Dickinson bought out Charette and moved to the Hockaday Building. In 1907 Henry S. Bertrand (1885-1961) married Mable Dawn Dickinson and the next year entered into partnership with his father-in-law. The business was located downtown just north of the Crandall Block until 1927 when a fire destroyed much of this section. At this time, George Dickinson retired and Henry Bertrand purchased part of the Music Hall Block and moved the business there, maintaining the name of Dickinson & Bertrand. After the fire in 1950 destroyed the Music Hall, a brick building was constructed in 1951 on the corner of Main and Adirondack Avenue at a cost of $80,000, which included an apartment on the second floor. A newspaper article noted that Amos the store cat, had been saved. Charles Baker ran the business in partnership with Henry Bertrand. It was known as Bertrand & Baker Pharmacy. Mr. Bertrand had also operated as an optometrist since 1919 and continued that phase of the business in the new store. Henry Bertrand died in 1961 and in 1962 Charles Baker and his wife, Anna, were sole owners of the business. In 1973 the business was sold to Dennis Baker (unrelated), who eventually sold to Eldon Hall, whose "LD's Pharmacy" was the last pharmacy located in that building.
