1303 EAST MAIN STREET

Although this house gets lumped with 1301 E. Main Street in tax records and in the Historic Inventory, the two were in no way connected originally as far as I can gather from records. The house next door was built around 1905, but this house was built a little over a decade later. It doesn't show up on the 1913 Sanborn map but starts showing up in CDs around 1925. 

The first steady business to be housed here was EG Bowden + Bros, furniture repairmen, in 1928.

Throughout the 1930s and part of the 1940s this was the home to Cadmus W. Hoffter (also spelled Hoffler in other records). I would love to know if this shop had a striped barber pole. 

In the late 1940s and early 1950s the barber shop was changed into a grocery store ran by Benjiman R. Dodson. From the late 1950s through at least the mid 1960s the building again turned back to being a barbershop and was called Mary's Salon of Beauty. 

At some point the false parapet facade of the storefront was removed. From a different angle you can see exactly how teeny tiny this building really is.