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The Pinehurst Outlook
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The March of Progress
Contributed by A. S. NEWCOMB
The past summer has witnessed a remarkable change in Pinehurst.
While there have, perhaps, been other summers when the growth has been
more spectacular and more apparent to a casual observer, there has never been
one when the work accomplished has been so substantial and so significant
of permanent progress as that of the summer of 1922
The village has now reached a point in the course of its development
when sound business principles demand a reconstruction of the commercial
center, and plans that have been formulating for many years are being carried
out which will give a new aspect to the center of the community.
It is a noteworthy fact indicative of the general trend of affairs that since
last winter two perfectly sound and substantial wooden buildings have been
razed to make way for elaborate brick blocks, and a new street has been
opened to be devoted exclusively to business structures. This new thoroughfare
will be called Market Street and will run from Dogwood Road to Magnolia
Road north of the row of buildings extending from the Pinehurst General
Office to the property formerly owned by Mr. E. L. Merrow.
At the east end of this new street Messrs. O. H. Stutts and A. S. New
comb, who purchased the Orange Cottage a few years ago, are just completing
a brick store building. Here an old land-mark has been removed to make
way for the march of progress. The Orange Cottage was originally a bowling
alley, but the increased demand for household accommodations in Pinehurst
made it obvious a few years ago that it would be profitable to convert it into a
cottage and this was accordingly done. Now the need for store space justifies
replacing it with a business structure and soon the Market Square Building,
as it will be called, will be one of the principal business blocks of the village.
The plans for this were drawn by Mr. Aymar Embury, II., and provide
for two stores and a restaurant. It is of brick and hollow tile construction
with a metal roof and is two stories high. One of the stores will be occupied
as a jewelry store by Mr A. J. Clow, who has been in the jewelry business
in Pinehurst for many years, and in the other Mr. H. E. Conant, who formerly
had charge of the shoe section of the Pinehurst Department Store, will carry
a complete line of shoes. On the second floor there will be two apartments, one
of which has been leased to Mr. A. E. Mason, who will have an office and
living quarters there.
A short distance west of this building Mr. L. C. Fuller is constructing a
new business block, also from plans by Mr. Embury. This, too, will be of
brick and tile with the second floor devoted to apartments. On the ground
floor will be a store and printing office. Mr. Fuller is well known here, having
been in charge of the printing office for several years. The store and apart
ments in this building are for rent. The building will be known as the Clifton
Chambers.
The two blocks just described are the beginning of a row to face Market
Street above referred to. Lots on this new street will be deeded with reserva
tions providing that only brick or other fire-resisting material shall be used in
the construction of the buildings and that they shall have metal roofs. The
plans will be subject to the approval of Pinehurst, Inc., and thus the long
recognized need of a complete and attractive shopping center will be fulfilled.
It is planned to have an open square in this new street connected with Chin
quapin Road by a foot passage between the Bank of Pinehurst and the office
of A. S. Newcomb & Co.
At the corner of Chinquapin Road and Village Green West Road another
old land-mark has succumbed to the march of progress. Here the frame
building, long used as a printing office, has been demolished to be replaced
by the Pinehurst Theater now being built by the Pinehurst Theater Company,
a corporation, which will conduct a moving picture theater and from time to
time as conditions warrant will secure lectures, concerts and other forms of
entertainment. A detailed description of this new building with a list of its
occupants will be found elsewhere in this issue of the "Outlook."
Mr. J. I. O'Brien, who last spring bought the Merrow Building west of the
Harvard, has made extensive changes in the ground floor. This has been
divided into four stores, one of which Mr. O'Brien will occupy himself as a
pharmacy. He has bought the stock of drugs formerly in the Pinehurst
Department Store from Pinehurst, Inc., and will continue the business in his
own quarters under the name of the Pinehurst Pharmacy.
Next to the pharmacy will be a store conducted by Solon Hines & Co.,
of Boston. They will deal in ladies wearing apparel.
Miss Julia McDermott, who is well known in Pinehurst, has leased the
adjoining store where she will carry a stock of ladies' novelties and notions
similar to that she has had in Southern Pines. She will continue her store
there and will divide her time in the management of the two stores.
In the same building at the corner of Chinquapin Road and Magnolia
Road, Sidney West, Inc., of Washington, D. C, have installed a stock of men's
furnishings. This store will be managed by Mr. N. P. Ray, who, for some
years, was connected with the Pinehurst General Store and is well known here.
The Meat Market, for many years conducted by Batchelder & Snyder in
the Department Store building, has been taken over by Pinehurst, Inc., and
will be carried on in conjunction with the General Store. Mr. C. M. Gray, the
genial and popular manager of the Pinehurst General Store, will be in charge
again as usual.
The 'Progress of a Summer
at jrinehurst
CT ETURNING residents and visitors will ap
preciate the decided advances that have
v been made at Pinehurst during their ab
sence this year. Over the village are everywhere
evidences of the swift evolution going forward.
The startling change at the club house, where an
expenditure of $100,000 has revolutionized the
whole appearance of the hills, is closely followed
by the fine theater building in the heart of the
village.
The commercial development in the market
section is another pronounced advance. Improve
ments at the fair ground, pretentious new houses
throughout the village, the construction of the
double track road to Knollwood Village and
Southern Pines, and other innumerable evidences
tell that Pinehurst is swiftly broadening its base,
and laying the foundation for a much bigger and
more comprehensive winter retreat.
A Building Site with a Winter Home at Pinehurst
Is a Comfort and an Investment
IT IS ALSO A MIGHTY DESIRABLE SUMMER HOME
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General Office: Pinehurst, N. C.