Halltown Mercantile

Main St., Halltown, MO
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The Whitehall Mercantile building was built in 1900 as a grocery and post office downstairs and IOOF fraternal hall upstairs. Over the years the second floor apparently hosted a variety of community social functions. Behind the one story wall with the sliding door on the right in this photo is a later addition to the building.

The building sits on the north side of Main Street in Halltown. Main Street was the original Route 66 through town.

The tall false front on the second floor was originally sheathed with horizontal siding. Towards the very top of that wall was plaque of sorts that held the IOOF name letters.

Thelma White, one of the cofounders of the Missouri Route 66 Association, had opened Whitehall Mercantile in the building in 1985. The association came along a few years later in 1990. The store closed permanently in late 2016. With the exception of the newer siding on the front of the building it is pretty close to its original late Victorian style.

Photo(s): 2012, 2016