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    John Allan's Livery Stable

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    John Allan's Stage and Livery Stable offered accommodation for the horses of the guests in his hotel, which he rebuilt in 1896. It was purchased by Ken Hodgdon for his garage and Studebaker dealership in the 1930's.

    In 1865 John D. Allan purchased E.C. Wilder's Hotel, renaming it "Allan's Hotel" and continued to provide the public with fine meals, clean, soft beds, and attentive service. His new livery stable provided ample room to accommodate the greater number of horses resulting from the heavier traffic. During the 1920's, the S.D. Warren Paper Company used the capacious barn for stabling the many horses being used in their woods operations in the area. Ken Hodgdon later acquired it as a repair shop and garage for his Studebaker business. The tall roof of the handsome livery stable dominated the skyline of the village, until the barn collapsed from neglect under the weight of snow in the early 1980's.

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    John Allan's Livery Stable, The Lane, Dennysville, Maine, in 1980.; John Allan's livery stable, built in 1896, became Ken Hodgdon's Studebaker Garage in the 1930's
    Store Hill in Dennysville c. 1897; John Allan's newly built Livery Stable dominates the skyline with T.W. Allan's Store to the left, the Riverside Inn to the right , and Lyman Gardner's blacksmith shop poised on the riverbank in the center. The gable end of E.C. Wilder's old hotel, acquired by John Allan in 1865, can be seen across The Lane from the large barn. Bill for repairs, Ken Hodgdon's Garage, 1930 The Lane in Dennysville, with the Hotel and Livery stable built by John D. Allan in 1896.; Photograph by Frank Beard for the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1980. The Lane in Dennysville in 1881; John D. Allan's Hotel and Livery Stable are marked across The Lane form each other in this map of Dennysville from the 1881 Colby Atlas and Washington County, Maine.