Work on Lumberton’s first skyscraper will begin within the next few weeks, according to Mr. K.M. Barnes, president of the Planters Building corporation, which concern was recently granted a charter by W.N. Everett, secretary of state.
Plans are now being drawn by the firm of Wilson, Berryman & Kennedy of Wilson and as soon as they are completed, work will begin. The purpose of the new corporation is to build a bank and office building on the lot at Fourth and Chestnut streets. The building will be either four or five stores high, in all probability five, and will be built of steel frame. It will be 42 feet wide and 100 feet long. The lower floor will be occupied by the Planters Bank & Trust Co., and the other floors will be used for offices. The building will have a basement, steam heat, electric elevator service and all modern conveniences.
The officers of the new corporation are: K.M. Barnes, president; R.C. Lawrence, vice president; Geo. L. Thompson, secretary and treasurer. The principal stockholders are the officers and Messrs. A. Weinstein, H.E Stacy, R.R. Pittman, and the Planters Bank & Trust Co.
The cost of the building is estimated at approximately $100,000 and it will be a structure of which a town many times the size of Lumberton might well be proud.
From the front page of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, March 10, 1924. Now called the Planters Building, 308 N. Chestnut St., Lumberton, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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