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Ohio Historical Inventory
In May of 1976 Brock & M.E. Schwartz of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office’s Scioto County Task Force complete survey SCI-62-13 for the Ohio Historic Inventory. At the time of their survey of the 1880’s Victorian-Italianate commercial building Mrs. Agnes Pyle was the building owner and made her home on the second floor of the structure.
The building’s prominent features were described as such:
“The building has en elaborate metal cornice boxed and supported by two brackets, two large on either and two smaller between. And an ornamental frieze of arches over a flower design with three rows of molding bellow. The once tall windows have been bricked up entirely on the third floor. The lintels are entablatured with brackets and sills are lug sills supported by plain brackets. The first floor has been modernized with plate glass windows.”
The surveyors, Brock & Schwartz, described the building as a good example of metal ornamentation that was popular in its period, and goes on to provide a brief history of the structure. “
Tradition has it that a Holy Roller Church was housed in it at one time, but for the most part it has been a store of sorts. It came to the Pyle family in 1924 when it served as a radio and electrical shop and has remained in the family since though it now sells motorcycles and other items.
The Pyle family had maintained a fifty-four foot addition at the rear of the building for many years, as well as an apartment on the second floor, but did not use the top floor.
As long as she is able to continue the store she probably will keep it up as well as she can.
-Brook & Scwartz, Historic Preservation Office
