Nunery Law Office Building

105 E. Main Street, Campbellsville KY 42718

The Nunery Law Office Building

C05-11-03, 105 East Main Street, New Turner Block, TAC-11, 1911 (alterations 1998)

Constructed of Common Bond brick six stretcher courses alternates with one header course. The facade has been altered with a shingle roof addition but otherwise is the same building as T AC-12. Brick corbelling and decorative brick lintels over the triple windows on second floor accent the building exterior. The building has been surveyed as a separate entity, but appears to be only one part of a larger building. All of the upper story fayade has the same brick and window work as TAC-12. Only the first floor storefronts show alterations.

This building is a part of the New Turner Block that was completed in January 1911. This building first housed a department store named Taylor, Pruitt & Jarvis. In 1924, the building was sold to the Coca-Cola Bottling Works which was housed in TAC-I0. In 1927, Coca-Cola sold the building to Lyon-Beard, a Chevrolet dealer. During this time there were gasoline pumps in front of the building on Main Street. The building is constructed in an L-shape with the annex turning to the west and facing Columbia Avenue behind and adjoining TAC-10. Lyon Beard used the annex to move cars into the showroom. Lyon-Beard sold the building in 1932.

In later years, R. Garnett Dowell had a furniture and dry cleaning business (Service Cleaners) in the building and the annex. The second floor of the New Turner Block housed several offices.

Although it is not distinctive architecturally, the building represents an early-20th century front facade which remains sympathetic in design and scale to Main Street.

Source/Credits: Campbellsville Local Historic Designation Report 2006

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