Martin's Department Store - Somerville Historic District - Somerville, TN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 35° 14.664 W 089° 20.964
16S E 286232 N 3902676
Building is number 76 on the NRHP map.
Waymark Code: WMTPZD
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 12/27/2016
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County of building: Fayette County
Location of building: 116 E. Market St., Somerville
Original occupant: Martin's Department Store
Current Occupant: Vacant
Building Built: ca. 1925
"76. Martin's Department Store (116 East Market Street): ca. 1925, one-story, brick,
commercial building, decorative tiles along cornice.
"Somerville's commercial structures of the early twentieth century show a more restrained
attitude toward building than those of the nineteenth century. The majority of these buildings
were one-story in height with far less emphasis on decorative architectural elements." ~ 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