J. P. Perkins Drug Store - Main Street Historic District - Chappell Hill, TX
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Constructed in 1865, the J. P. Perkins Drug Store in Chappell Hill, TX is one of the town's oldest commercial establishments and one of the 26 "Contributing" buildings within its NRHP-designated Main Street Historic District.
Waymark Code: WMME4N
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2014
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Chappell Hill's NRHP Main Street Historic District is an area covering 36 buildings, most of them built between 1850 and 1915 and reflecting the many variations in architectural style within that period in history. For more information on this particular Historic District, please see the following waymark: (
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The founding of the town of Chappell Hill is contributed to Mary Hargrove Haller who purchased a 100-acre site in this part of Texas on February 2, 1847 and subsequently commissioned a survey and the plotting of town lots. Just three years later, Mary Haller and her husband Jacob began building a two-story frame house now known as the "Stagecoach Inn" at the northwest corner of the center of that new town.
The J. P. Perkins Drug Store, located two blocks South of the "Stagecoach Inn", was built in 1865 by a prominent physician at the end of the Civil War and is one of the town's oldest commercial establishments. It is the middle in a series of three row buildings, sharing the overall roof structure and awning with the old 1911 "Campbell S&B Drug Store" (also a NRHP Recognized structure, now an Antiques and Cigar shop) to its North and another, now rebuilt and newer store to its South. As many other structures in town, the establishment has now been converted to an Antiques shop.
Per the official NRHP records, the J. P. Perkins Drug Store includes the following features:
"Single-story masonry structure [...]. Storefront is faced with brick and features a double entry door with multi-paned glass panels. Front entrance features a stylized cast-iron lintel, while double wooden door at rear addition features identical cast-iron element and fanciful cut-glass panels. Cornice displays simple brick corbeling. Although commercial buildings on each side did not originally feature the scalloped canopy, a similarly styled one was a feature on the Perkins Drug Store as early as 1907. Modern canopy was added to building in 1975. Brick cistern intact below rear of store. Members of the Perkins family owned at least partial interest in the building until 1924. "