8 - 10 Warren Street
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Building Name: Ruben Peck's
Drug Store
Street Location: 8 - 10 Warren Street, Glens Falls
Use: Original: Commercial
Use: As of 1977, Vacant
Date of Original Construction: ca. 1865
Architect:
Builder:
Historical and Architectural Importance: Previous to the fire of 1864, a wooden building on site housed Vaughn's Dry Goods and the Sheldon Benedict Harness Shop. The new building was occupied by J. K. Farrington's wholesale liquor store. Later, George Lockhart had a grocery store, and in 1871, F. C. Wilson, a grocery. The most famous shop, 1874 - 1910, was Ruben Peck's Drugs. It had the first telephone in town connected to the coal yard. Peck, a native of Glens Falls, b. 1840, sold drugs, medicines and chemicals. After him, there was Fred Peck and Flint's Drugs followed by James Moriarty's Delicatessen.
SOURCES:
History of
Queensbury, by Holden; Glens Falls City Directory, 1874, 1910, 1971.
Name of Collector: Judy Braley & Ted Corbett
Collected on: September 2, 1977
Organizations: Architectural Research Program
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