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The Arnold Building, SW corner of the Square - 29 Oct 2014 2014-10-30 - SW Corner Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo (c) ColumbiaMagazine.com. Paired Photo: See also: Favorite Old Postcard - Southwest Corner Public Square ca 1903 - New front was nearing completion Wednesday evening, 29 Oct 2014. Casey Norris has been doing most of the painting as the building is transformed. Interestingly, the lower window, for the first in modern memory (modern = since the 1940's; may other can remember earlier) now appears to be part of the Arnold Building. Up close an outline of a door can be seen. That door once led to the Adair County News office, more heard than seen until the News hit the mail routes the middle of each week. It cost a nickel in those days. The sound was the clatter of the Linotype machine run by the late Bill Downs and the rhythmic printing of of sheets of newsprint on a flatbed press. The News still lives, in the words of Richard Phelps, because it is not forgotten. It is kept alive through the work of JIM and Mike Watson, the history brother/cousins, and many others. More recently is has been the home of an art distribution company headed by Billy Joe & Libby Fudge, on the street level, and an art gallery owned by Margaret Arnold on the second story. The building was home for a few years to a very popular Sirius Coffee shop, owned by Debra Shaw. Permalink | Comments?

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