NRHP: Spade Ranch Store

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Spade Ranch Store

NRHP Reference #: 10000629

NRHP Listing Date: 20100903

Location

W side of SHWY 27 / Lot 5, Ellsworth, Sheridan County, Nebraska

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Summary

In 1898, Bartlett Richards, owner of the nearby Spade Ranch, hired local carpenters to construct a building for a store and the headquarters of Nebraska Land and Feeding Company. Richards also controlled the town's hotel, barn and stockyards and built a house there in 1902. After the foreclosure of the Spade Ranch in 1923, the store was managed and later purchased by Lawrence Graham. Over the years, it served the surrounding community as a store, lumber yard, gas station, post office, and social center. Today, it is Ellsworth's only commercial building, and one of only two buildings still connecting the town to Richards and Spade Ranch.

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