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Pharmacy Mixes Modern Medicine With Old-Fashioned Atmosphere... Filling your prescriptions at Hometown Pharmacy can also be a trip down memory lane. The building itself has a ton of fascinating local history to it, and the owners have fixed it up almost like a mini-museum. The pharmacy is in the building once occupied by the Browning House and later the Henrietta Hotels, which burned to the ground in 1923. The structure was rebuilt shortly thereafter. The "new" building (new since 1923) looks mostly like the old ones, minus one story. Located in a building that is almost 80
years old (with similar structures in the same place dating to 1859), the
Clark's Pharmacy was in the building beginning at least as early as 1908 and was there until the 1970's. The owners of Hometown have decorated the inside with many old-fashioned pharmacy items, such as those pictured in the opening photo above. The historic building sat vacant for
almost a year before Hometown secured it. Prior to that, it had been Hometown Pharmacy also rebuilt the entire
front awning, including an ornate and perfectly-kept stained glass billboard along the
front awning (visible from the inside of the pharmacy, but not from the outside). The
stained glass The old soda fountain was removed in
April, 1969. Hometown did not have enough room to reinstall the soda fountain because drug
inventories today, compared to 50-75 years ago, take up much more space. One of the more remarkable historical
aspects of the building is a marble memorial plaque installed in the south side brick wall
in 1932 to honor The old-fashioned, customer-focused
pharmacy theme is what inspired Hometown Pharmacy's owners to create this new business in
Chillicothe. The old-fashioned drugstore values that the Hometown Pharmacy is striving to
emulate are personal service, getting to know their customers, over-the-counter service
with no Plexiglas in between, and a willingness to counsel customers. Hometown gives
customers more than just a bottle of pills, we're giving service. Hometown enjoys helping
people and will go out of the way to help customers.
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building's history and the fact that it used to be home to
Clark's Pharmacy and Rexall Drug for dozens of years, helps make the customers and
employees feel the old-fashioned, customer-focused service that the owners of Hometown
Pharmacy are emphasizing with the new store.
The
similar building that stood prior to 1923 dated to 1890 and was called the Henrietta
Hotel. Prior to that date, it had been called the Browning House, a hotel, but it was
destroyed in a fire in 1888 and rebuilt and renamed the Henrietta.
occupied by
Collins Rentals. Prior to Collins, it was occupied by a shoe store, and prior to that, a
dress shop. Prior to the dress shop, for 70 years or so, it was O.P. Clark's Rexall drug
store.
sign says, "The Rexall Store." Antique-looking glass
block windows were also reinstalled in three windows near the store front. The other
windows in the historic pharmacy still have their antique glass blocking.
Nelson Kneass, a traveling musician and
author of the song "Ben Bolt." Kneass became ill and died in the Browning House
in 1869. Donations for the plaque began after a 1922 proclamation from Missouri Gov.
Arthur Mastick Hyde a year prior to the fire that destroyed the Browning (Henrietta)
Hotel.
A little bit of
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