If you were thinking about going to the Square in Mansfield for a cigar and a quick game of billiards, the time to do it would definitely have been in 1927.
Looking at the photos of 25 North Park Street then and now it takes some imagination to recognize that the building is the same one in both images.
The very tall entryway back then, when it was called the Manhattan, has been shortened; and the brick façade has been “modernized” with stone and mesh in the fashion of the 60s; the streetlight was removed in the 1950s and then replaced in the 2000s, and that crowd of gentlemen has no doubt moved on to that great billiard room in the sky.
