The Old Bell Telephone Building is a historic commercial building at 109 North Ash Street in downtown

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. It is a two-story flat-roof brick building, built in 1911 to house the town's telephone exchange. The building is three bays wide, with the door in the right bay, with a

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above. There is an original brass slot for accepting payments between the doorway and the center window. The building was built by R. C. Rose, a local attorney who owned the telephone exchange. The building was listed on the

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in 1987.

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