Real Photo Post Card, Azo paper, stamp box design in use 1924-49. Main Street (foreground) was once billed as the "World's Widest Paved Main Street." Congregationalist Church is the white spire at the top of the square, westernmost spire is Grace Methodist, on Court Street. Some version of the Cheshire House, a well-known hotel, stood on the east side of Main from 1837 to 1934, when it was replaced with a one-story commercial block.