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Corner of Columbia and Main Streets, North of the Canal, Brookville, Indiana (#126 on Metamora Map)

"This building has long been associated with the business life of Metamora. It was built for Gilbert C. Van Camp about 1854. By 1861, it was the business property of Jesse and Ezekiel Washburn. The second floor was the workshop of  Joseph Staub, harness and saddle maker who, in the 1880's advertised "boots and shoes made to order".  At the turn of  the century, Loe and Mike Staub operated it as a shoe repair shop. The shop was relocated to the second floor and was serviced by a wooden stairway on the Columbia Street side.  In 1920, Linnie Banes succeeded Inez Gordon as Postmistress and moved the Post Office into the first floor, where it remained until construction of the new postal facility in 1967."

-Harold Miner and Paul Baudendistel,  Walking Tour of Metamora, 1977