Moore/Kivett's Five and Ten Cent Store - Martinsville, Indiana
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BruceS
N 39° 25.678 W 086° 25.720
16S E 549173 N 4364426
Historic department store building in Martinsville, Indiana.
Waymark Code: WM7BBB
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2009
Views: 5
"Moore/Kivett's Five and Ten Cent Store, 110 North Main Street, Italianate, 1860/c.1900.
This immense three-story brick building is painted red. It features a hipped roof, molded tin cornice with decorative brackets and numerous windows with limestone block lintels. All second and third story windows are one-over-one double hung sash; three pair are symmetrically placed on the second story front (east) wall. Twelve significantly smaller one over- one double hung sash windows are found at the first floor level on the south wall. The storefront features a corner recessed double entrance and plate glass display windows. An overhanging, self-supporting metal awning canopy shelters the sidewalk; vertical freestanding letters advertise the business: 5-10 KIVETT’S 5-10. Following his 1852 move to Martinsville and his second marriage to Elizabeth Wampler, Dr.Robert H. Tarleton, a physician and druggist, built this landmark structure about 1860.
Originally a two-story building, in 1900 the third floor was added as a Masonic Lodge. The building housed a drugstore until 1930, when it was installed with self-serve counters and opened as Moore's Five and Ten Cent Store. Sold to John S. Kivett in 1932, the building was home to Kivett's Five and Ten Cent Store until 1984." - Historic District Nomination Form