38: Commercial Block – 1898, 505-515 North Market Boulevard

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The Chehalis Improvement Company built this building as part of the Commercial Block in 1898 to complete the transformation of the intersection on all four corners as the heart of the new third downtown. The building originally housed three businesses – the First National Bank, Marr’s Drug Store (then Garrison Drug Store), and Henry Mandle’s Men’s Clothing Store from 1920-1929. The building was bought by Schwartz Men’s Wear in 1934, one of the oldest continuously operating clothing stores in the Pacific Northwest until its closing in 1995.