"The Guyer Building, built in 1897, had living quarters upstairs and downstairs housed a variety store and grocery. From 1910 until 1923 the Hobart Post Office was on the east side and Sauter and Mackeldy, then Brand and Fleck, and later Sothmans ran a grocery store on the west side. Peter Bates used the east side as a candy store before he moved to Main Street. Then W.B. Mitchell had a hardware store here before he moved to Illinois and Georgianna. Now Streight's T.V. and Appliances uses the entire first floor. A dentist office was on the second floor and a chiropractor had offices here."Images (links open in a new window):
♦ The Guyer Building was new when this photo was taken in 1897 or 1898. (That image was printed in May 1898 along with this biographical sketch of Mr. Guyer and his building.)
♦ A street view that includes the Guyer Building as post office. The image is undated, but the scarcity of autos on the street suggests it was taken closer to 1910 than 1923.
♦ The Brand & Fleck grocery store circa 1928.
♦ The Guyer Building as it appeared in an advertisement in 1962.
♦ A photo of the installation of new traffic lights downtown caught a nice view of the Guyer Building in July 1968.
"The next little building was a cigar store and later a barber shop. There was another small building next to it that was Odell's Jewelry Store where Mrs. Odell also sold her homemade ice cream. When the jewelry store moved across the street a number of proprietors operated a restaurant in the building. Mrs. Margaret Fleck had a fancy work shop here which was sold to Kittredge's Fabric Shop who later moved to Third Street when the buildings were torn down and the Hobart Development Corp. built the shop for Kellen's Florist (342 Main St.)."