Thomas F. Payne constructed this building in 1868 for a woodworking and furniture shop considered without equal within 100 miles. In 1920, the Bradley family, working with architect A.M. Strauss, carried out a major overhaul for the Bradley Brothers Drug Store. The second story became a leading center for prominent doctors, lawyers, and businessmen, and it even included a medicinal bath, while residential tenants have occupied the site since the Bradley renovation. On Nov. 11, 1942, when the Great American Circus performed at Wabash High School, an elephant named Modoc escaped and wandered downtown. Drawn by the smell of fresh-roasted peanuts at the Bradley Brothers Drug Store, she smashed through the front door, ate the peanuts, and then began a five-day rampage through two counties that made headlines across the country and made her the most famous elephant in America for one week in 1942.