Dr. D.Q. Storie opened his drug store at this location in a one-story frame building during the 1860s. During the 1870s, he replaced it with a narrow three-story brick building that complemented the adjoining Mallory Opera Block. When the Mallory block burned during January of 1904, the flames spread to the Storie Building, destroying it. It's south wall fell onto the two-story frame Lockwood Building to the south, and it was destroyed as well. The north wall of the Penick Building, at far left here, finally halted the blaze.
Storie built this building in 1904, after the fire. Note that originally, a large oval stone and brick cartouche crowned the cornice. Much of that has now been removed and that is the building's major exterior loss, other than replacement windows.
Frank D. Myers/21 September 2011
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