Main St, 124 Butternut Valley Arts & Crafts Center

2008 Google street view.

1947 R.F. Gould photo

124 Main St
(Butternut Valley Arts and Crafts Center): Two-story, two-storefront, frontal-gable. frame commercial building
with elaborately designed false front added in 1903. Front facade has two street-level storefronts: the eastern and larger one has a high step entrance to recessed center entrance retaining period paired doors between large display windows. The narrower western storefront is flush to sidewalk and has a single door and paired windows. A stair hall entrance is located at the west end of the facade. The three-bay second story retains windows with pedimented casings and wood two-over-two sash. False fronts capped with Italianate bracketed cornices rise above the outer windows; a round-arched section with matching brackets rises over the center window and a large, tripartite window composed of a taller round-arched window flanked by lower ones opens into the gable end of the building. This façade is clad in wood novelty siding. Sides and back have wood clapboard siding and regular fenestration with wood sash.

Built ca. 1830; remodeled 1903.
Historic map references. 1856: lot in use, but labeling difficult to determine owner name; 1868: Murdock and Matteson;
1903:J.P. Kenyon

Historic notes:From 1984 inventory form: 1984 states 1903 remodeling of a building constructed in 1828, possibly built by A.C. Moore.

May 26, 1869, The Morris Chronicle.

June 2, 1869, The Morris Chronicle.

July 14, 1869, The Morris Chronicle.

September 1, 1869, The Morris Chronicle
All sorts of produce accepted in trade.

July 27, 1870, The Morris Chronicle.

March 23, 1870, The Morris Chronicle. Try black alpaca!

October 13, 1870, The Morris Chronicle. Sometimes a tiny ad on page 2 is better than 1/2 column on page 3 or 4?

https://billyraysimsbaskets.com/2011/05/12/bama-corn-basket/
Did they look like this?