Subject:                          

VanCamp’s Store (Italianate 19^th c. Functional c. 1870)

Erected by:                  

Indiana Division of Tourism and the Metamora Shop Keepers 1976 (#84 on Metamora Map)

Located: 

Southeast corner of Main and Bridge Streets, Metamora, Indiana

Text: 

This building was built in the 1850s.  Mr. VanCamp housed his drug store here, which had the front blown out by a gasoline explosion in

His mother and himself perished in this tragedy.  The building on either side of this were all part of one lot.  All buildings were built one to

another.