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At 441 Main Street in Coshocton, two buildings together contain 43,500 square feet or more of combined retail and storage space. The larger, known as the Selby Building, was built by Edgar O. Selby in 1895 and was then the largest structure used for mercantile purposes in Coshocton. Its stone nameplate above the center third-story windows is covered by a painted piece of wood. The smaller building has had its original windows downsized and replaced, and fake brick siding covers its old face. The two buildings were tied together in the mid-1950s, when the Selby Building's largest and longest tenant, J. J. Newberry Co., which occupied it from 1921 to 1993, expanded from a five and dime store to a variety department store. At that time the storefront was modernized with oatmeal-texture porcelain enamel tiles, a facade material that became popular in the late 1940s and was used on many commercial chain stores.
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