This is a significantly historic picture and the
time frame is circa 1910 or a few years later. The
Aull & Company building on the East Main
Street/Spring Street corner is still looking like
the structure as when Aull had it. The only
difference is the advertising on the side seems to
be painted over.
Aull & Company had already
moved across the road to the corner of Main
Street/Pearl Street by 1900. Later G. W. Davidson
Banking Company moved his banking operation from
his building on the Square to the vacated Aull
building. This building underwent some major
structural changes before/during the time of the
G. W. Davidson Banking era. This building was
later the head office of Logan Telephone and today
[2009] is the Auburn City Hall.
In opposition to G. W.
Davidson, in 1905 the Auburn Banking Company began
operations in a custom made building, on the west
side of the Pearl Street/Main Street corner, until
they moved to a new premises in the 1960s. was .
This was a solid stone structure and is still
functioning as a retail outlet today - the same
then in the picture as it is today.
Another interesting aspect to
this picture is the building next door to the
Auburn Banking Company on Main Street, which is
"The Lamb and the Lion Antique Store" owned [2009]
today by Wayne and Nancy Dinsmore. You will notice
that it is protruding past the line of the Auburn
Bank building, possibly to the outside of the
walkway today, and it also had windows on the
second floor. Some big structural changes were
made to this building in the intervening years,
modified or torn down and rebuilt. We have a
picture, taken in 1910 of the Vick Hotel showing a
vacant lot between it and the Auburn Banking
Company property. Incidentally the line of the
hotel is in line with the afore mentioned building
and not with the Auburn Banking Company building.
