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Last modified 10/30/03
Building Name: Ruben Peck Building
Street Location: 10 Warren Street, Glens Falls
Use: Original: Commercial
Use: As of 1980, Commercial
Date of initial construction: ca. 1865
Architect: unknown
Builder: unknown
Historical and Architectural importance: This building was built after the Great Conflagration of 1864, on the site of a frame structure which had housed a dry goods store and Sheldon Benedict’s harness shop. The new building housed at first, a wholesale liquor store managed by J. K. Farrington. Later, it was occupied by a grocery business. By 1874, the commercial space was occupied by Ruben N. Peck’s drug store, one of the community's well-established businesses. Peck, born in Glens Falls in 1840, into one of the Quaker pioneer families, succeeded in his father William and grandfather Daniel Peck’s (1775 - 1836) drug business, which had been founded by the later as early as 1800. Peck continued the trade in this building from 1874 - 1909, selling with the endorsement of the community's leading physicians "fine fresh drugs, medicines, and chemicals of every kind: acids, extracts, essences, tinctures, herbs, roots, barks, standard proprietary remedies, mineral waters, sick room and nursery requisites, toilet and fancy articles etc." Following Reuben Peck, the business was managed in 1914 by Frederick A. Peck, under the name Peck’s Drug Store.
Architecturally, the structure is an example of vernacular, post - 1864, Italianate brick commercial building on or near Fountain Square. Important design elements of the façade include the long windows with wood panels and decorative cast iron caps. Surviving with much of it’s original integrity and rehabilitated for sensitive re-use, the building is an integral element of a stock of 19th mid-century commercial buildings on Warren Street, which faces Fountain Square and indicates the commercial success of this major downtown intersection following the post-1864 fire rebuilding period.
Source: D, G, 50, 73, E, 250, R, 593
Name of Collector: Richard C. Youngken
Collected on: November 26, 1980
Organization: City of Glens Falls Community Development Office
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