Sawyer Building

201 S. Main St. - c.1905

This former grocery store has a very simple design with a corbelled cornice and arched windows on the second floor.  From 1888 until the early 1920's , Henry E. Sawyer operated a grocery store on this site.  The upper floor of this building housed apartments, in which one of them, Mr. Sawyer lived.  Shortly after the construction of this building, Sawyer constructed another commercial building next door at 207-11 S. Main. The grocery operation was expanded into the neighboring building at that time.  After Sawyer vacated the building, the upstairs was advertised as furnished rooms and a hotel throughout the decade of the 1920's.  The ground floor storefront was bricked in at some point in time.  Currently, both buildings are vacant, but restoration is scheduled to start later in 2005 to convert both buildings into office and retail space.