Miner's Supply Store

Description of the property

The Wood Hardware Store, now vacant, has approximate dimensions of twenty rear addition approximately ten by fifteen feet, has & double door entrance Supply Store. CONDITION storage area. DETERIORATED UNALTERED The roof verges and eaves project with no rafters exposed.The exterior EXCELLENT concrete block and the pedestalsare constructed of brick.A one story store building is metal with the gable end at the facade. bracketed shelving and bins with flat top arched openings.

large store front windows with two lights over two.The west extension The interior retains its l9th Century appointments with such features as rests upon a frame and pillared brick foundation.The gabled roof of the - UNEXPOSED Western corner has been covered with beveled siding with the original With two lights over two.It has a plain wooden surround and is surmounted corner.In the half story facade gable end is a rectangular double window to the rear.The building,,constructed of frame with beveled of the building is relatively devoid of ornamentation.

CHECK ONE hook, original to the building, which was used to lift goods up to the Additions:A one story open facade porch which runs the width of the also has a facade store window with two lights over two at the northwestern side which does not appear in the pre 1895 photograph of the Miner's block with a west extension half the width of the main block.

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Statement of significance

ville on the line of the Ohio Southern Railroad, being constructed to serve Dartmouth graduate, John H. Patterson (1844-1922), a local coal merchant and such as sales conventions, continuing maintenance service, closed sales 1600-1699 XARCHITECTURE ECONOMICS TRANSPORTATION THEATER XINVENTION SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART COMMUNICATIONS EDUCATION XCOMMERCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT CONSERVATION LAW PHILOSOPHY MILITARY SCULPTURE PERIOD _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XINDUSTRY develop the machine further.Patterson implemented new sales techmiques and sales techniques. SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN welfare systems for his employees.

ward with a career as President and owner of the National Cash Register territories and schools for salesmen.He also pioneered in industrial remarking to his partner,"What is a good thing for.this little store is a LIJERATURE -1400-1499 _1700-1799 of the earlier buildings in Coalton which was platted in l877 as Eureka- The Wood Hardware building isa tangible reminder of Patterson's Coalton - ENGINEERING -RELIGION -SCIENCE - 1900- - MUSIC - 1500-1599 effort to stop operating losses, Patterson became one of the first purchasers drawers and operated by simple punches in a paper roll. Patterson's business began to show a profit and he foresaw great economic utility and potential, took out several patents in his own name.

experlence which resulted in the revolution1zing of commercial transactions area coal mines.Eurekaville became at once one of the most important mine owner, operated the Miner's Supply Company in the building in connection changed hands four times. Patterson removed to Dayton, Ohio, and went for- AGRICULTURE PREHISTORIC Company.He personally developed improvements in the cash register and He hired mechanical experts to with his coal mine.The store operated asa general store which sold goods lot forty eight(upon which it stands) by the Patterson family. It is one the sale of $150,000 worth of goods, the store had a $3,000loss.In an Scribner's Sons, New York: 1934, pp. 304-305.