Carwash

This is a 2-story post and beam building built in 3 stages, each stage being 20 x 25 feet for a total length of nearly 80 feet. The building contains the signature for the original owner, James T Brown as well as a freight elevator operated by a wooden wheel that is 7 feet in diameter! This building’s life started around 1856 or1857 as the business place of Mr. James T Brown, a dealer in “drugs, medicines, paints, oils, perfumery, extracts, groceries, and provisions.” Mr. Brown was succeeded in business by his daughter, Libbie S Brown. After her death in 1915, Mr O A Osgood operated a paint and paper store here. After that, the property sat vacant until August 10, 1945, when George A and Lela McMahon acquired it where George operated his machine shop and shock absorber business. The building again sat vacant until Lela sold the property to Vincent and Lauretta Neary on September 15, 1966 as a storage facility. On February 20, 1968, it was sold to Robert A and Jane Perry where they operated a carwash there until August 4, 2003, when he sold the business to Dean and Robert Gallmann. They continued the carwash operation until June 31, 2004 when they in turn sold to Robert and Barbara Hewitt. The Hewitts discontinued the carwash, renovated the building, and opened a blacksmith and woodworking business there. The blacksmith and woodworking shop have recently closed leaving an apartment remaining in the rear portion of the building.