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MERCANTILE STORE:   Custom Spider Map for www.rustystumps.com

Next to the I.O.O.F. Hall the second most impressive building in this row is the Mercantile Store. It is the only brick building in the block and was built to last the years.

It has a raised cement covered loading platform with stairs at each end and access to both the main building and the wooden storage lean-to on the side.

This is the only building in the block without either a canopy covered entry or a wooden sidewalk although it does have stairs an a wood platform to line up with the wood sidewalk next door.

The wooden storage building attached on this side has a large sliding freight door so crates, barrels and drums can be easily placed inside.

The wooden storage building has no window but does have a smaller rear entrance door. With this and the freight door on the front both open in the summer time the building can be cooled as flammable items are stored out here such as kerosene, dynamite sticks, etc..

There really isn't a second floor in the Mercantile Store but a small loft at the rear. Nor is there a rear entrance to the main building for security reasons as lumbering, mining and such tools and equipment was stored inside.

As with other merchandising stores there are no side windows on the Mercantile Store as those walls are needed for the display of merchandise. A single brick chimney can be seen poking through the roof. A more modern cast iron stove heated this building in Winter..

The bulky size of the Mercantile Store is evident  in this overhead view. Built around 1915 after it's predecessor was burnt to the ground the year before in a rather suspicious fire.

This will be the sixth and last kit released in the series.

Dimensions shown are approximate till the kit design is complete. Actual dimensions will be posted at that time.