Woods Corner Store Building

115 E. Main Street, Campbellsville KY 42718

Woods Corner Store Building

C05-11-05, 115 East Main Street, Woods Comer Store, TAC-14, 1879-1886 (alterations 1958, 2002)

This two-story brick building is constructed of common bond with six stretcher courses alternating with one header course. Stone pilasters support stone lintels that are repeated in TAC-15, TAC-16 and TAC 17. The parapet is tin decorated with semi-circles broken by simulated keystone. The pedimented windows on the second floor are decorative with scrollwork at each crest. The sides and tops of the display windows have a paneled design that is repeated in TAC15. Quarter rounds inside the windows are decorated with the egg and dart pattern. Alterations to the storefront include display windows and a shingled roof that covers the leaded glass transom.

James M. Wood sold this two-story building to Judge John W. Cloyd and Frank P. Turner in 1888 that ran a general store until Turner sold his one-half interest to Cloyd in1890. Cloyd continued a general store on the first floor with clothing and furnishings on the second through the early-20th century. At one point Judge Cloyd opened one of Campbellsville's first chain stores, Quaker Maid Grocery, until the A & P took over the grocery until they moved into a new building farther east on
Main. Ray Taylor operated the Western Auto here for twenty years before Chester and Ina Blakeman took over the business in 1958, remaining here until the early-1980s. Rainey's Pawn Shop presently occupies the building.

This was the first brick building on the block that established the design motif that was carried out in all but one building. Thus, there is a consistency in design and scale that makes this one of the most attractive late-19th century blocks on Main Street.

Source/Credits: Campbellsville Local Historic Designation Report 2006

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