Burned Furniture Store on South College Street to be Rebuilt, Jan. 11, 1924

New Building to be Built on South College Street. . . On Site of Buildings that Burned Year Ago. . .To Be Occupied by Johnston Furniture Company—Work to Start at Once—Means Much to the City

There’ll be great rejoicing on South College street when it is learned that a fine new building is to be erected by Mr. Zeke Johnson on the site of the old Ferguson and Fite stores that were burned a year ago. The Johnston Furniture company, now doing business at 24 South College street, will occupy the new building, which is to be erected especially for the furniture dealer.

Plans for the building include a pressed brick front, plate glass windows, maple floors and two elevators. There will be three stories to the new structure, and when completed will be one of the most up-to-date furniture houses in the South.

Perry-Mincy company, now on the east side of South College, will occupy the building vacated by the Johnston Furniture company.

The Johnston Furniture company enjoys a fine patronage that has been built up through the company’s policy of a steady and sure growth, rather than the mushroom variety. The fact that the concern has taken a long lease on the building that is to be occupied as their new home is evidence of the substantial standing the Johnston Furniture company has in this city and section.

The move is also another epoch in the life of the Perry-Mincy company, and indicates the growing esteem in which this younger concern is held by the Charlotte people.

Ever since the fire gutted the building son South College street a year ago, property owners and business men on this street have been deeply interested in the wrecked property, and the fact that a fine new building is assured will be welcome news to all who are connected in any way with this particular section of the city.

Work will begin at an early date on the new building.

From the front page of The Charlotte Herald, Friday, Jan. 11, 1924