[1] In 1891, Nathaniel Foster's pottery was torn down, after about fifty years in existence, and a new building was constructed in its place.

His business was not a success, unlike its successor, another variety store run by Andrew Antonio, an African American.

In 1945, Anderson combined the two wooden buildings of Griffin's and an adjacent grocery store (which sold produce "at Portland prices").

When Yarmouth's post office moved from the Brickyard Hollow section of Main Street in the late 1990s, the then owners of Handy's, Glenn and Susan McAllister, signed a contract to provide postal services at their store.

[6] It became occupied by OTTO Pizza in 2014,[7] then a grocery store and café, called The Nook,[8] with the building known collectively as Handy's.