Eureka Hall
This building is now known to all of us as a nice family, sit-down restaurant in downtown Stockholm, Maine. There are now two present owners that run the business, Robert Rankin and Susie Anderson. The hall was originally built in the early 1920s by the Odd Fellows and they operated it for ten years. It was turned over to the Eureka Club and later to Albert Anderson. Other past owners. were Ejner and Diane Adamson, Gary Raymond, Martin and Ruth Anderson, Frederick Anderson, Milton Joy, and Elsie Anderson.
Albert Anderson Inside Eureka Hall
There have been many businesses that have come and gone through this building. At first the building consisted of three stories and was all once a general store. It had a wide variety of businesses and was a big part of town. Some of the things were: It was a general store, barber shop, pool table, a jail cell that was really just a holding cell, bowling alley, a movie theater, and a ice cream parlor. And even a not so nice piece of our past--the KKK meetings were held there. At one time or another all these businesses were run by different people in this building. In the 1970s the top story was torn down and we have our current building form.
Eureka Hall, July 2006
New Sweden Historical Society
In the present day, it is open as a restaurant upstairs, and downstairs it is a bar. It still has two bowling lanes in the back room. They are not working, but lanes are still there. They are open Thursday to Sunday and is the best place to eat in Aroostook County. It is a popular place for the local people to eat, and many people in the winter come up and end up eating there.
So throughout the years Eureka Hall hasn't always been Eureka Hall. There have been many owners and businesses, and it is still proudly standing today. The building has lasted more than 80 years and still looks much like it did long ago, except for losing one of its stories. It is located in Stockholm on the corner of School and Main Streets, so stop in some time.
Work Cited
ECHOES: The Northern Maine Journal, Issue No. 17, August 1992, Volume V, Number 3 "Eureka Hall," Anderson, Gordon A., p. 20
Bob Rankin, present co-owner, Eureka Hall