27: Smith's Millinery - 1904, 534 North Market Boulevard

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This one-story building was constructed in 1904 as a retail outlet next to the Rush Building – a two-story building with Italianate influences. The Rush Building was torn down for a parking lot, but an iron pier remains on the shared wall between the two buildings. The building was home to Alice T. Smith’s Millinery from 1910-1911 and Fred Downs operated Downs’ Tire Shop from 1922-23. From 1927 through the 1950s, the building served as home to The Smart Shoppe, a women’s clothing store operated by the Boyntons. In 1935, Mary M. Boynton started the Orchid Beauty Shop there. In 1937, a newspaper ad referred to the building as housing Boynton’s Shops, which operated another store on Tower Avenue in Centralia. In 1951, Harriet Goff’s Corset Shop began operating from The Smart Shoppe. In the early 1970s, the building served as home to the Lewis County Senior Citizens Center.