Museum Block on West Main in Lowell grew from a group of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century commercial and civic buildings. At 325 West Main, Robert Graham built a duplex in 1873 for his family on the west side and his in-laws on the east side. After his wife Emma died of pneumonia soon after moving in, leaving three young children, he married Elizabeth Shaw, who established Lowell's literary clubs, and Robert became Lowell's first librarian in 1882. The west side of the Graham residence later housed the Lowell Library from 1922 to 1996, the east side housed the YMCA from 1960 to 2004, and Graham's descendants donated the building to the City of Lowell in 1954; it later became the Lowell Area Historical Museum. At 315 West Main, the Strand Theatre was built in 1928, when the first talking pictures were being filmed. Laurel and Hardy and other vaudeville acts performed there, and the theatre operated as a state-of-the-art movie house until 1983 before becoming Larkin's "The Other Place," a banquet hall. Between the Strand and Larkin's, 305-307 West Main was occupied by a white brick veneer building that housed Bert Charles' barber shop in the 1930s, Downtown Dairy under Winton Wilcox in the late 1930s and 1940s, and later a fruit and vegetable grocery owned by John Haggai. At 303 West Main, McGee added a second building next to his saloon as a produce warehouse, and in 1887 one hundred seventy-two bushels of strawberries were shipped from there in a single week. At 301 West Main, the McGee building began as McGee Saloon and later housed Bergin's Grocery, Alexander's Grocery, Houseman's Grocery, Richmond's Café from 1930 to 1944, Lowell Café from 1945 to 1978, and Larkin's from 1978 onward.