Instead of the regulation Main Street of the country village, with its centre given up to shops and post-office, side streets wound here and there, and houses were placed with a view to effect.
The Main Street of Fairbridge was as naught from a social point of view.

Nobody of any social importance lived there.

Even the physicians had their residences and offices in a more aristocratic locality.

Upon the Main Street proper, that which formed the centre of the village, there were only shops and a schoolhouse and one or two mean public buildings.

For a village of the self-importance of Fairbridge, the public buildings were very few and very mean.