21. Bush Building – 1910, 460-466 North Market Boulevard

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Newspaperman Dan Bush, who constructed the building, had merged The Lewis County Nugget and The Lewis County Bee in 1898 to form The Chehalis-Bee Nugget. Bush sold The Bee-Nugget in 1916 to Clarence Ellington. Chapin Foster bought the newspaper in 1925, and published it from the building until 1937, when it was purchased by Advocate Publishing, publisher of The Lewis County Advocate. The company combined the newspaper into The Chehalis Advocate, which ceased publication in 1962. During the 1920s, offices were occupied by Thomas E. Polley who fitted and repaired glasses, the Chehalis post office, and a dental practice operated by Dr. A.C. Nicholson. The building housed the Washington Art Project Extension gallery in the Lewis County Art Center in the 1940s.