354 Main Street, Otego:‘More Than Just a Store’
By TERESA WINCHESTEROTEGO
Almost every person I’ve met has a story about this building,” said Bill Hovard, who, with his partner, Chris Kraig, is the most recent owner of one of the oldest surviving structures in the village of Otego—a commercial space at 354 Main Street.
Otego residents who formerly attended the school opposite the store have told Hovard about going there when the building housed a candy store. Others have reminisced about living in apartments there. Still others spent time at the location when it variously operated as a TV repair shop, a second-hand clothing store, or a café.
Hovard has a photo of the store when it functioned as Broadfoot Bros., a general store purchased by Berosus Broadfoot with his brother, Charles, in 1899.
