The Downtown Waterville Historic District encompasses all of one block of Locust Street plus the west end of a second block and a few buildings along North and South Chelan Avenue. In all there are 17 contributing and 2 non contributing buildings in the district. All buildings are of brick, save for the Centennial Feed Building, a single storey wood framed building on the west side of North Chelan. The brick for the district was manufactured locally in brick yards, first established in 1889. The oldest structure in the district, on the northeast corner of Locust Street and Chelan Avenue, is the First National Bank/Kincaid/IOOF Block, constructed in 1891.
Obviously, this barber pole isn't quite as old, more like a decade or so. While most of the barber poles we've come across in our travels were Marvys, this one is not. It is a plastic imitation, made in China, likely intended to a emulate a Marvy Model 410. This NON Marvy hangs outside the entrance to the Waterville Parlor, a tonsorial parlour/beauty salon in the middle of the south side of the National Bank/Kincaid/IOOF Block, along East Locust Street.
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