Simkins Seed Store, located at 1129 Broad Street, first appears in a 1939 ad, and I wonder what was in this space before then. I was able to find the owner was Leroy H. Simkins, born 1904, who in the 1920 was a landscape architect for a corporation. That's a big change to make, it seems, from landscape architect to the proprietor of Simkins Seed Store. Now I find a wedding announcement from 1931 that clarifies he was already a partner in the Simkins Seed and Feed Company, while also being employed as landscape architect for the Forrest Hills Ricker Hotel that was founded in 1926 and had its own golf course designed by golf course architect Donald Ross. A luxury resort hotel, it became an army hospital in 1942. It was razed in 1988. What was the Simkins Feed Store is now the Westobou art gallery. The black-ane-white photo shows part of the shop's exterior, the business closed, an old ad for I can't tell what long degrading in an upper window.
Simkins Seed Co., 1129 Broad
Downtown, Augusta, GA
Between 1976 and 1979
Analogue photo
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