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Tobacconist Shop or possibly a Gun Shop with Post Office also has the
owner / proprietor's living quarters on the second floor. This is a very
narrow lot building squeezed in between the Boarding House and the
I.O.O.F Hall.
Among the castings is a Cigar
Store Indian for those that choose to model the Tobacconist Shop as
designed.
As this building is tight to the Boarding House there are no windows on
this side of the building. The shop has the living quarters directly
over and there is a single story storage room on the backside.
NOTE: Window openings are marked
on both side subwalls just incase you don't use this building in the
same setting as we do. There are also extra laser cut windows to use if
you cut these opening free.
The upstairs living quarters at least has windows on the back so a
breeze can come through in the Summer heat. The roof of the back storage
room also provides a good fire escape just incase. The stairway upstairs
is inside on this building.
NOTE: The front wall, tall rear
wall and the short rear wall can be rotated 180 degrees so that the door
openings are at the opposite side of the wall face.
There is a covered rear entrance
to the building for both occupant entry and the delivery of goods.
This is a very Spartan and basic
building typical of small towns with narrow lots and was built most
likely around 1900. Two brick chimneys are evident. One for heating the
lower commercial area and the other for the living quarters upstairs.
The kit will uses vertical board
'n batten siding on the front wall and individual stripwood clapboard
siding on all the other walls. Lots for the modeler to do with this
small building
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