207 South Lobban Avenue: Hogerson House Distance 0.00 miles

C. J. Hogerson had a blacksmith shop on Main Street beginning in the late 1890s. He was also a bank president and county commissioner when he built this house in the late 1890s or early 1900s. It is a rectangular wooden frame house with a curved eave over a small front entry.

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240 South Lobban Avenue: Oliver House Distance 0.00 miles

J. G. Oliver was a prominent businessman in early Buffalo who owned the Oliver Building and the Capitol Hotel. The house was built pre-1903, and is a one-two story house with a gable roof and an end chimney.

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310 South Lobban Avenue: Parmelee House Distance 0.00 miles

Built in 1884, Judge Carroll Hathaway Parmelee’s two-story brick house has nine rooms, attic storage, and a bay window. It contains a marble fireplace, a central hallway and stairway, and a double arch over the windows.

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Vacant, 75 North Main Street Distance 0.00 miles

This building was at various times a title company, numerous liquor stores, Meldrum’s Texaco Gas Station, and a bank. Near the location of Robert Foote’s General Merchandise Store, Charles H. Burritt built this building in the 1880s. Foote’s store was destroyed by fire in 1895.

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Chamber of Commerce, 55 North Main Street Distance 0.00 miles

The current building was erected in 1969 and housed a grocery store, shoe repair shop, and saddle shop. According to old city maps, it was the location of S. T. Farwell Cigar and Tobacco Store. It was established next to Charlie Chapin’s Saloon and Club Rooms in 1881.

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The Office, 33 North Main Street Distance 0.00 miles

Built in 1940 and remodeled in 1965, it once housed the Vaughan Ragsdale Clothing Store. The Buffalo Bulletin was headquartered here for about 20 years with the presses located in the basement. In 1882 it was the original location of the Myers Hotel. It provided “the very best of meals for 35 cents each.”

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Visionary Communications & Prosinski Custom Framing & Fine Arts, 7 N. Main Distance 0.00 miles

The Theatorium, later the Bison Theater, moved to this location in 1917 when R. M. Kennedy, a past Johnson County sheriff, ran it. The current building dates to 1930. The movie theater operated until 1984. Deerfield’s was located here before it closed in 2013.

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Margo's Pottery, 1 North Main Street Distance 0.00 miles

The current building dates to 1909 and was the location of the Thompkins and June Hardware store in the early 1900s. Then Buffalo’s first movie theater, Robert Taylor’s Theatorium, was located here before it moved next door. Later the Buffalo Bar resided here from the 1940s to 1996.

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