At first glance it doesn’t appear as if Main Street in Butler has changed a lot in the last 100 years: but take a closer look.
That block on the right in the 1911 photo (east side of Main Street) was wiped out in a catastrophic fire in 1917. There are plenty of pictures documenting the ashes, but it is much more interesting and encouraging to see the evidence here of exactly how the village responded to the disaster without hardly missing a beat.
