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M.B. Lockett Building
Historical Marker

circa 1885
remodeled 1896

  119 West 7th street 

GPS Coordinates
North 30o 38' 15.6" - West 97o 40' 40.5"

UTM 14 R - east 0626725 - north 3389905



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Marker Text
Located on the site of an 1840s store, this structure was built after the Civil War. In the 1880s it housed the mercantile firm of Rucker & Montgomery. Ohio native Melville Beveridge Lockett opened his store here in 1889 and remodeled the building to its present Victorian design in 1896. Prominent architectural features include cast iron columns, an elaborate pressed metal parapet, and a corner turret with a domed oriel bay.

 

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