The
Garfield County Senior Center, on the corner of 7th & Main, was the
first brick building built by C. B. Foot on Main Street in Pomeroy in
1888. The triple thick brick, which can be viewed from the dining
room, was made at a kiln one mile south of the golf course at Benjamin
Gulch. The building was the only remaining Main Street building to evade the
Pomeroy fire on July 18, 1900.
There remains a bank vault ornately painted from
the First National Bank. The building also housed the Pomeroy
Savings Bank and R. L. Rush's Bank. In 1911 Alex McCabe began law
practice in one of the offices upstairs. When Pomeroy Savings moved
to the present U.S. Bank site, the attorney kept a shotgun ready in the
event the bank was robbed.
The building housed numerous other businesses
and offices: the Rauch Flower Shop, La Hatt Jewelry Store, Darby
& Mowery Hardware, Kuchler's Meat Market, Jones Cold Storage, Pomeroy
Grain Growers, the Liquor Store, the first telephone office, and doctor
and dentist offices including Dr. Dean, Dr. Clark Black, Dr. Darby, Dr.
Mast, and Dr. John Gilbert. The Senior Citizen Center acquired the
building in 1980.
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