A selection of maps of the Brooks House through the years        see  also Fire Insurance Maps

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On the left – 1876  –  from the Bailey & Hazen bird’s eye view.

There are two buildings on the west side of Main Street, the Brooks House and the Crosby Block.

The map on the right was made 7 years earlier (1869 – Beers Atlas) just before the Brooks House was built.
Most of the 1869 shops on Main Street were destroyed by a huge fire.

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This photograph of the whole block is from the 1880 Howe photograph of Brattleboro.

In the near foreground are the railroad tracks.

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An excerpt from the Burleigh view of Brattleboro. Note what appears to be an extension in front of the Brooks House covering the area of today’s sidewalk.
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The 1895 Miller map depicts every building’s outlines. The heavy dashed line in Main Street is the trolley line.

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Below:   Two 1850s  maps of the same area, well before Main Street’s present buildings were built.
1852                                                                                                                             1856

1852