Dear Editor:

I wrote about a Commercial Street building that was once across from Fisherman's Wharf in a March 17, 2016 column entitled "That Missing Building." The building was demolished for a parking lot for that business. I speculated it disappeared soon after the 1958 fire which destroyed Fisherman's Wharf, perhaps about 1960. The below implies 1964 was the year.

Jean Huskins Chenoweth, who grew up at Mill Cove, spent her professional life with D.M.R., and retired to Eustis, emailed me after reading the article with additional information. She wrote, "Stan and I were married in early July 1963 and we rented the apartment over Bob Patton's shoe store. The access to the apartment was between the "missing building" and that block of stores that held the shoe store. So the "missing" building must have been there then. I almost but not quite remember them tearing it down. I do remember that it was the summer of 1964 when Fisherman's Wharf started making that area into a parking lot because there was a maple tree growing right outside our apartment window. They bulldozed that over; we felt sorry for it so we took it to the land we had bought the previous fall on Lakeside Drive and planted it there. It's a big tree now, still going strong."

I thank Jean for all her help over the years with local history and with my last article.

Barbara Rumsey

Boothbay Region Historical Society