ART
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Destination Marker #7- Main Street
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Destination Marker #7- Main Street

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The building just to the North is the Hightower Building, which was built in the 1920s by a Pioneer Banker Frank Johnson after he studied downtown business patterns and reasoned correctly that the corner would become the most heavily trafficked retail intersection and could sustain long-term higher rents. In the two blocks to the east, John A. Brown’s, Kerrs, Street’s, Haliburton’s, Rothchild’s, Kress, J.C. Penney, Sears and B.C. Clark were part of a thriving downtown shopping district from the 1920s until the 1960s, when the buildings were demolished to provide room for a new downtown.