E. L. Segel & Family We have not determined when Elias L. Segel and his wife Rebecca Ruben Segel arrived in Montpelier, but they are listed in the 1905 Montpelier census as living at 4 Downing Street, off Barre Street, around the corner from the present Catholic Church. Their son, Herman David Segel, was born in Montpelier in 1907. The 1915 city census shows that the family lived on the Barre Street end of Hubbard Street at number 14. In the early 1920s the family seems to have lived at 12 Brown Street, a little street that runs between Main Street and St. Paul Street behind the Prospect Apartments not far from the present synagogue. In the late 1920s and through the 1940s the family lived at 38 East State Street. Elias Segel and various family members ran a store in downtown Montpelier, E. L. Segel & Co. known as "The Peoples' Clothing Store." The Segel store had at least two locations in downtown Montpelier. The photos on this page show the store in what was probably its earliest location, 22 Main Street, the current site of The Drawing Board on the west side of Main Street not far from City Hall. The tin ceiling that is visible in the historic photograph is an important architectural element in the current store. The front window of the store at 22 Main Street is lettered "Clothing and" and includes a picture of a shoe. An awning says "E. L. Segel & Co." Large posters in the windows of a photo taken in 1908 advertise a performance to be held on August 17. Montpelier City directories for the 1920s indicate that the store was located at 58 Main Street, which is approximately the location of Capitol Stationers. Family tradition holds that the store closed in 1928 after the devastating flood of 1927, but the city directories list it into the 1940s. A photograph in the collection of the Vermont State Archives, taken in the late 1930s, shows the store located in what is now the southern half of the Capitol Video store at 44 Main Street.