Wall Drug Store - Grapevine, TX
N 32° 56.305 W 097° 04.708
14S E 679639 N 3646098
A Grapevine Historic Landmark sign on the front façade at 320 S Main St provides some history of the Wall Drug Store, which occupied this 1900 building for a good part of the early-to-mid-20th century.
Waymark Code: WMY08R
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2018
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The sign provides some background:
Wall Drug Store
320 South Main Street
In 1888, Zachary Taylor Wall and his wife, Virginia Araminta Jenkins, purchased this building for their drug store and confectionery. In 1871, Rev. E.N. Hudgins, founder of the Methodist Church in Grapevine, owned the property. It had four subsequent owners before the Wall family purchased it. In 1904, Wall Drug Store was bequeathed to their son and pharmacist, Clifford Jenkins Wall. In 1917, John and Mamie Spinks acquired the drug store and operated it until the late 1950s.
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The building is a a contributing building to the Grapevine Commercial Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. That 1888 date contradicts the National Register's Continuation Sheet (see URL, below), which notes the earliest building here as being from 1889 (334 S Main St). Arcadia's Grapevine, in their "Images of America" series (The Grapevine Historical Society), has a few vintage photos of the Main Street district, back in the day, and one has Clifford Jenkins Wall standing in front of the store with three other men. The photo caption also indicates 1900 as the year of construction, noting 1872 as the year that the business itself was established, so the senior Mr. Wall must have operated his business from another building until 1900.