Mathews General Store

One of several brick buildings erected on Mechanic Street after an October 1895 fire, this building became the home of S. J. and Nancy Mathews' store after they came to Plano in 1893 and first opened a store across the street before relocating here in 1906. Mathews Department Store sold dry goods and clothing, including millinery made by Nancy and her daughters, until 1947. The building later continued as a department store and then housed other businesses. Its façade features running bond and corbelled brick, transom and storefront windows, and columns and base plates from Sherman Iron Works, and it remains one of Plano’s few 19th-century stores in continuous commercial operation.

Plano, Texas · United States