Susanville’s Brick Building Boom

Oakes and Philbrook’s furniture store under construction at 800 Main Street.

On June 6, 1900 a destructive fire wiped out a major portion of Susanville’s business district on the south side of Main Street from Roop to Union.  But prior to fire, the Susanville School District had hired Reno contractor C.E. Clough to construct a two-story brick school to replace the wooden one on Cottage Street at a cost of $12,500.

As noted yesterday, was the construction of Emerson’s three-story brick hotel. Clough kept really busy. On August 29, 1900 the Methodist Church hired him to build a brick church for the wooden destroyed earlier by fire at a cost of $4,739. Next up was Oakes & Philbrook Furniture Store at the southeast corner of Main and Gay Streets. That building along with the Methodist Church are the only two still remaining.

The Susanville Grammar School, nee Washington, as it appeared in 1948.

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