The A. J. Clark Store is located along Main Street in downtown

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, United States. It is a brick Italianate building dating from approximately 1875. It has a two-foot (60 cm)

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around its entire roof and a covered two-story

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looking out on the street. Inside, original period features such as a pressed-metal ceiling, hardwood floors, doors and staircase remain. There have been no significant changes to the building since its original construction. Archer Clark built the building to house his

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shop around 1875, after an 1870 fire destroyed his earlier quarters. It would continue in existence in that building for a century. Later, one of his descendants converted it into a

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, and today another Clark does

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on the ground floor. In 1996 it was added to the

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as an intact commercial building dating from Cornwall's days as a summer resort town in the late 19th century.

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