Ridenour Sefyert Motor Sales sold Cadillacs and LaSalles at its 124 W. 9th Street location. This building is currently the home of Anderson Mainstage Theater.
Stores on Eighth Street across from Madison County Courthouse. Duffey Hardware (12), Rapp's (14-16), Kinley Food Company (20-22). Rapp's and Kinley's are located in the Liberal Life Building. This block was torn down in the 1960's and First...
I.P. Humperdink's was the last tenant of this brick storefront on the northeast corner of Meridian and Eleventh Streets. The store sold trendy men's clothing. The building was torn down in the late 1970's and a parking garage now occupies this...
The original Anderson Post Office was located in the Madison County Courthouse and relocated frequently until 1883, when it settled on the north Meridian Street along courthouse square. In 1906, it was moved to this building on the northeast...
Anderson Herald Office, Eleventh and Jackson Streets. The Anderson Herald published continuously from 1868 to 1987, when it merged with the Anderson Daily Bulletin to form the Herald-Bulletin.
The Ward Stilson Company came to Anderson from Ohio during the Gas Boom Era. They manufactured lodge regalia and developed a successful line of women's dresses called Maisonette Frocks. The company went out of business in the 1950's. This was...
First Baptist Church was started in September 1890. The building pictured here, located at 14th and Lincoln Streets , was the congregation's home until 1996. Currently it is unoccupied.
The Peter Pan Room was designed for children to use. Note the national flags hanging from the pipes as a decoration and the reading benches by the fireplace. At this time, the Peter Pan Room was located in the east wing of the Carnegie building...
Children wait at the Peter Pan Room circulation desk to check out books. The Peter Pan Room was located in the East Wing of the Anderson Carnegie Library building.
Vacation Reading Club graduates were invited to attend a program in November during Children's Book Week and had their pictures taken on the Anderson Carnegie Library Building steps.
A public subscription library was established in Anderson by 1879, but it led a nomadic existence for many years. It found a home on the second floor of the Masonic Temple Building on Meridian Street in the 1890's. After the city voted to support...
Seen looking north east from 10th and Jackson, the Anderson Public Library occupied this location for 82 years, when it moved to 12th and Main, the site of the former Main Street Elementary School and (more recently) Sears Roebuck. The Library...
