South Main Street District (Boundary Increase)

Two buildings at the western end of Poland's South Main Street were added to an existing historic district. The Johnston Building at 101 South Main combines a nineteenth-century store and house, with later additions from the 1930s and 1953. The store, known in an 1835 deed as the Morse and Dickson store, was owned by members of the prominent Morse family, and it is the last surviving Morse building in Poland. It keeps Greek Revival features and rare beaded poplar sheathing upstairs. The eastern house was the first Poland home of the William McKinley family, in 1852. Next door, the two-story brick-veneer Poland Fire Department at 111 South Main, built about 1926 in Classical Revival style, once held the village offices, fire department and a library branch. It was left out of the original district because of its relatively late date, but it represents the village's early twentieth-century growth. Both buildings match the scale and siting of their neighbors.