204 Main Street

202-204 Main Street, Noble Passage Interiors & Gifts

Part of the Noble Passage business in the red brick portion that had been the James Henry Cainstore is the old address of 202 Main Street. The white structure to its left is the old seperate 204 MainStreet address. The 202 Main building also served to house the Madison County Record newspaper business for a time when the J. H. Cain sign was covered over and before the Somerset group sign was put up while that business operated in the building. However, there were many other businesses that operated from this location in the 1900s. Joseph Eugene Collier had a store here for a time, as did Henry Pillow. Also, Ms. Mable Patterson had a dress shop at 202 Main.

The early newspaper advertising of the bank claimed that it was “unrobbable” due to having the latest state of art time locks by Mosler on the main vault and that it was protected by the Pinkerton detective agency. However, it was in fact robbed. Gladys True wrote of the event in her book “Reflections of madison, 1869–1999”,

The old bank vault and its inner safes are still in place, but the larger volume of the vault has been used as a storage room for some time. Still, sometimes one can see inside if they ask nicely at Noble Passage Interiors.