Category: Architecture
Buildings and structures.
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W.F. Paulett and Son, Inc.
In 1914, William F. Paulett bought a Main Street lot in Scottsville where a blacksmith shop once stood and began construction a large building to house his lumber and hardware business. First he poured a concrete floor, one so immense in size that a group of little boys came to marvel at it later that…
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Pitts Market on Main Street
Shown above in this 2026 photo is the former Pitts Market (operated on the first floor at the left of this building from 1937-1962) and home of the William Robert and Ruth (Kent) Pitts family at right behind the porch and in rooms behind the store. In the 1950’s, Scottsville had four grocery stores. One…
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The Old Apothecary Shop
The Old Apothecary Shop, located at 510 Valley Street, was built ca. 1832. The two-story brick building served as an apothecary where town doctors prepared drugs and medicinal compounds for their patients from 1876 – 1908. As business grew, Dr. Luther R. Stinson and Dr. Benjamin L. Dillard, two practicing physicians in Scottsville, found it…
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The Beal Building
The Beal Building, located at 380-398 Valley Street, was built circa 1841-1850 on Lot 148. In 1850, Joseph Beal purchased the east half of this lot on which this large brick building with a slate roof stands. Mr. Beal began his mercantile business in this building, and many Beal businesses were housed here over the…
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Old Post Office and Griffin Building
This building is a two-story, seven bay-wide structure, located at 358 and 370 Valley Street in Scottsville. It was built about 1840 and may have served as an inn during canal days. The left side of the building served as Scottsville’s Post Office from 1884 to 1914. The right side of the building was used…
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Miss Hannah Moore’s Boarding House
Miss Hannah Moore built her Boarding House (the brick house at the right of this photo) in 1910 on the east side of Valley St. She opened it as a boarding house in 1911, and for years, Miss Willie Hitchcock lived there. Miss Willie, cousin to Wild Bill Hitchcock, taught the Lewis children in the…
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Hatton Post Office
The Hatton Post Office began operation at Brown’s Landing (now called Hatton) in late 1883. The postal facility sat just inside the front door of Brown’s Store and contained walnut mail boxes (shown above) for its customers and a wooden window through which mail and stamps were dispensed. Although a post office most often assumes…
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Traveler’s Rest Hotel
The Traveler’s Rest was a wood-framed hotel built about 1909 by Jacinto V. Pereira, who was also the President of Fidelity Nationial Bank on Valley Street. The leading hotel in Scottsville for 67 years, the Traveler’s Rest contained nineteen hotel rooms with two bathrooms on each floor. The dining room sat approximately sixty people at…
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Main Street Businesses Flooded ~ 1913
A rider on horseback wades through the high flood waters on Main Street. This 1913 flood ranked as the 8th highest recorded flood in Scottsville’s history with flood waters measuring at 25.16 ft. over flood level. Left to Right, these Main Street buildings are: Copyright © 2018 by Scottsville Museum Image Located On: Capturing Our…
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Dr. J.P. Blair’s Dental Office
Dr. Blair operated his dental office on the second floor of this white building, located beside Mink Creek on the south side of Main St. The creek ran under this bridge on Main Street, and, as Mayor Raymon Thacker remembers, everytime Mink Creek flooded, the Blair and Moon (next door) buildings filled with muddy water.…
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