Campbell S&B Drug Store - Main Street Historic District - Chappell Hill, TX
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Constructed in 1911 and forming part of a "3 buildings in a row" series, the Campbell S&B Drug Store in Chappell Hill, TX belonged to Dr. W. R. Campbell, a prominent and affluent local doctor. It is currently used as a retail shop.
Waymark Code: WMN6CM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2015
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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 Campbell S&B Drug Store, located two blocks South of the "Stagecoach Inn", was built in 1911 and is thus considered to be a "latter era" structure within the overall 1850-1915 time period. It was built on the site of two older structures and shares the same street "block" with the 1865
J. P. Perkins Drug Store and the 1912
Old Post Office, both of which are also contributing buildings within the District. The actual drug store was owned by W.R. Campbell (1866-1931), a prominent and wealthy medical doctor who resided in the old
Jacob Haller House, another residence originally built by the town's founders (along with the Stagecoach Inn) and also a Contributing Building.
The building is still used as a retail store to date, but has changed hands quite a few times within the last few years. Per the
Texas Historical Commission Atlas records, the structure includes the following features:
"One-story, masonry, early 20th-century commercial building. First in a series of three row buildings, it replaced two small 19th-century wooden structures set back from street. Three structures connected by a continuous cedar-shingled wooden awning supported by wooden posts. Scalloped wooden skirting on front awning added in 1975. Front facade has double entry door with transom and a large glass and marble storefront. Three 16 light clerestory windows appear above main entrance with old screen door. This drug store is important for its association with Dr. W. R. Campbell, an early and prominent physician in Chappell Hill. Simply corbeled cornice crowns front parapet wall. Original interior, including furniture, shelves, and movable ladder, remains intact. Rear segmental arch windows with brick relieving arches."