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Merrihew/Dalley Building
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Harry Bert Merrihew, a graduate of Highland Park College of Pharmacy in Des Moines, Iowa, commissioned this building in 1900 for his Lehi Drug Store. The upstairs portion of the thirty-by-fifty foot structure served as a lodge room for the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of the World fraternal orders. The Lehi Drug Store had the finest soda fountain in the city's history, and its intricately carved walnut cabinet for storing soda glasses is now displayed in the Hutchings Museum, featuring a large arched mirror backdrop and a marble counter top. In 1917 Merrihew sold the Lehi Drug Store to John Franklin Bradshaw and his brother-in-law, Gerald R. Taylor. In 1919 the Lehi Drug Company traded the building to the Bank of Lehi in exchange for the Lehi Opera House and the Garff Building immediately west, and the State Bank of Lehi then moved two doors west into the former Lehi Drug Store. To accommodate the bank's continuous growth, a new addition was built onto the north side of the building in August 1930. When a new bank building was completed in 1953, the building became home to Julian's Drug Store, and the upstairs became an apartment for the Paul Julian family. A decade later Lenard and Twila Rockwell purchased the building and also lived on the premises, while the downstairs commercial space housed the Lehi Post Office and later Jo's Fashions, a beauty shop owned by JoAnn Zimmerman. In 1973 Wes and Geraldine Dalley purchased 98 West Main from the Rockwells and over the years operated a jewelry store and gift shop, Dalley's Tropicals, and a Grandfather Clock emporium. In 1982 the Dalleys secured National Register of Historic Places listing for the building and began a nearly two-decade restoration project, after which Geraldine's Gifts of love continued in the refurbished store.
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