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Industry, Architecture
Historic Place
Waco Drug Company
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About this site
Waco Drug Company is a historic place in Waco, McLennan County, dedicated in 2008. It is one of 8 historic places documented in McLennan County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 224 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.5547, -97.1309 near Waco. The nearest cataloged historic site is Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Praetorian Building, Waco Tornado, The, and Brann-Davis Shootings.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2008000241. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Waco Drug Company building at the corner of Fifth and Mary Streets in downtown Waco was constructed in 1925 as the headquarters of a regional wholesale drug company. The four-story building with a full basement faces east on Fifth Street and is detailed with a raised concrete base, multi-pane metal ground-floor windows, and a pedimented parapet at its central pavilion. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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