Lipsky's Store - Somerville Historic District - Somerville, TN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 35° 14.628 W 089° 21.033
16S E 286126 N 3902612
Building 95 on the NRHP map.
Waymark Code: WMTPYM
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 12/27/2016
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County of building: Fayette County
Location of building: W. Court St. & Fayette St. (US-64), Somerville
Original Owner: Lipsky's Store
Building Built: ca. 1925
Current Occupant: 101-105 Fayette Falcon Newspaper Offices & 107 Southern Pickers Store
"95. Lipsky's Store (West Court Street): ca. 1925, commercial building, one-story, brick." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"The buildings of the Somerville Historic District remain as an excellent collection of
residential and commercial architecture in a rural southwest Tennessee community.
Somerville's architectural development spans nearly three quarters of the nineteenth
century and through the first quarter of the twentieth century, demonstrating the growth
and development of the community and the influence of architectural styles and periods
with relatively unchanged, outstanding examples from the Greek Revival period forward
including a variety of early twentieth century styles such as the Neo Classical Revival,
Beaux Arts and Art Deco.
"Somerville remained a small, rural town (1979 population 2,264) after the turn of the
century as Memphis and Shelby County to the west increased its role as the metropolitan
center of southwest Tennessee. As a result Somerville survives as an outstanding collection
of buildings representing a wide variety of architectural periods and styles from about
1830 to the 1930s. The Somerville Historic District illustrates the town's development
and the types of residential and commercial architecture popular in a rural, agrarian
West Tennessee county." ~ NRHP Nomination Form