Price's Drug Store - Somerville Historic District - Somerville, TN
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YoSam.
N 35° 14.613 W 089° 20.983
16S E 286201 N 3902583
Building number 68 on the NRHP map. Building to the right of this one is where #67 once stood, no longer viable. (see gallery)
Waymark Code: WMTQBN
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 12/29/2016
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County of building: Fayette County
Loction of building: 16790 US-64 (was 105 E. Fayette St., now part of Bank"s main office), Somerville
Original Occupant: Price's Drug Store
Current occupant: Trustmark Bank & Trust
Building built: ca. 1920
The East-West streets have been renumbered or re-identified by the Post Office since the NRHP Form was approved. Market St. & Fayette St. address are changed and Fayette Street is now called US Hwy 64 in official address
"68. Price's Drug Store (East Fayette Street): ca. 1920, commercial building, two-story,
brick, finial like decorations at either end of parapet, building name (Price)
in parapet.
"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.
Exceptions to this are Price's Drug Store and the Fair Theatre." ~ 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