Lebanon #16: Garland-Bach-Meyer Building

748 South Main Street

Garland-Bach-Meyer Building on November 22, 2006

The Garland-Bach-Meyer Building was built in 1910 by Joel C. Mayer, Steve Bach, and Samuel Garland. These three men played major roles in the city’s political and banking history. Samuel Garland served as a state senator, and Mayer was president of the Bank of Lebanon and the Mountain States Power Company. T.C. Turner Company was the first store to occupy the ground floor. The second floor had offices and a large hall which was used for formal dances, and was later taken over by the Elks Lodge until they built their own building in 1949. One of the second floor offices was occupied by Harvey White, a Justice of the Peace who remained for 50 years. For a time this building served as Lebanon’s courthouse. J.C. Penney’s opened a dry goods store on the first floor from March of 1920 until April 11, 1987. As of 2007, the building’s most recent use was as a Curves center.

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