Thomas F. Payne and the New Bradley Building - Wabash, Indiana
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N 40° 47.796 W 085° 49.333
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Furniture store turned drug store turned elephant feeding ground...a site with a rich and full history.
Waymark Code: WMCM0Z
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2011
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This sign honors the builder of the New Bradley Building in Wabash, Indiana. The building was erected before the city gained fame as the first to electrically lit. Today the building houses the Modoc's Market, a coffee shop. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Modoc's Market has a detailed history of the building and their website describes the building as follows:
Thomas F. Payne built what now exists as The New Bradley Building in 1873, as a manufacturing complex for wooden furniture and casket manufacturing. He operated the business T.F. Payne & Co. in conjunction with his brother, S. J. Payne, who owned property directly across Market Street where Market Street Grill now exists. A written history of Wabash County proclaims, “…it is the largest miscellaneous cabinet works within 100 miles of Wabash. The establishment he has built up is the oldest business house of any kind operating in the county to-day.”
The sign itself reads:
Thomas Payne constructed this historic building in 1868 for a woodworking and furniture shop that was without equal within 100 miles. In 1920, the Bradley family, with the architect A.M. Strauss completed a major overhaul for their Bradley Brothers Drug Store. The second story became a leading center for prominent doctors, lawyers and business men, even sporting a medicinal bath. Residential tenants have occupied this historic since the Bradley renovation.
Group that erected the marker: Wabash Market Place Inc.; Wabash Historic Preservation; Downtown Wabash Historic District
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
205 S. Miami
Wabash, IN USA
46992
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