Then and Now #16 - The New York Store

📍 The New York Store 🗽, once at the corner of Locust and Clay Streets, was originally constructed in 1887 🏗️ after the owners of the business, Captain Archibald McVey and his various partners 🤝, moved their business from 614 Washington Street 🏬; this was the second time the business had moved 🔁. Architect Charles B. Clarke 🏛️ designed the impressive building, along with others in town such as the 1877 city hall 🏙️. Between its founding in 1898 and 1910 📚, Maupin College 🎓, teaching a variety of humanities and business-related subjects 📖💼, operated out of the second floor 🪟. While the company was renamed in 1902 🔄, the building would continue to be known as the New York Store for many years 🏷️. Around this time in the 1930s 📆, the building was purchased by Judge Chris Boehner ⚖️, being referred to interchangeably as the New York Store and the Boehner Building during this period 🏢. In the 1930s, the building was heavily modernized 🛠️ with many of its most impressive details being pared down or removed altogether ❌, though it still retained its imposing scale 📐. In 1986 the building was torn down 🧹 as part of a bank expansion 🏦.

Historic Photo #1 from Robert Pigg via Downtown Chillicothe Historic Tour website. Historic Photo #2 from Livingston County Library archives via Downtown Chillicothe Historic Tour website. Current picture courtesy of J.T. Baysinger June 18, 2025.