Farmers Produce Exchange - Chilhowee Historic District - Chilhowee, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Early use of this two-story, 1907-built brick building, the district's largest, was as a general merchandise store (Journey & Sappington, Cahill & Sweeney in ca. 1908). During the period of significance, it housed such diverse facilities as a millinery shop, restaurants, a jewelry store, barber shops, and a produce and feed store as well as general merchandise. The upstairs provided office space, facilities for a lodge hall (Modern Woodmen of America), and during the late teens, classrooms for Chilhowee high school students. The brickwork cornice is dentilated and corbeled. Upper windows have segmental projecting arches and labels which angle into two projecting courses across the main facade. Lugsills are concrete. The larger (east) unit has a recessed corner entrance (tripartite). Round cast iron columns provide decorative support at this entrance and at another inset entrance to the west unit. Two small segmentally arched doorways, one transomed, are on the east side. The lower storefront was superficially altered in ca. 1970 by the addition of aluminum siding over the transoms and portions of the display windows. Upper windows are plywood-covered. Considering the limited, reversible alterations, integrity is retained.