All this week Cameron MacRae has had the wreckers at work on his ancient store at Franklin and Henderson streets, near the post-office. The site will soon be ready for the workmen to go ahead digging for the foundations.
Construction will be pushed rapidly, and before the summer is gone a modern store-and-office building of brick and stone will be adorning this corner.
The old frame structure now destroyed was once the drugstore of the owner’s father, the late Robert S. MacRae. During another period it was Kluttz’ store. In recent years it has passed on from tenant to tenant—plumbers, grocers, fruiters, and tailors.
The new building will extend 26 feet along the main street and 111 feet along Henderson street. The ground floor at the front will be occupied b some sort of store, with probably smaller stores to the rear of it along the side street. The entrance to the upper floors will be on the side about 75 feet from the corner. Mr. MacRae has announced that anybody who wants to be a tenant should apply either to him in Concord or to the Chapel Hill insurance and Realty Company.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1925
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