Just beyond are two handsomely painted frame buildings. The one on the corner is called the Sherman Building and first housed the Sherman Grocer Company, Wholesale, and Retail. It was built in 1885 in late Victorian style with cast iron columns enhancing the façade. It and the next building are now combined into an antique and gift shop.
In the 1970s, Elm Street, the side street here, was lively and rowdy with saloons and gambling halls and we are told that the most raucous saloon was on the corner where there is a city parking lot today. Perhaps that’s where the cowboy whom the sheriff killed for firing bullets into the air got all of his spirit(s).
