Historic District Downtown Building Inventory
Belknap Insurance,
Pomeroy Downtown Historic District
(Site ID 19)
According to the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, by 1896 a printing business was sited here; by the early 1900s, the brick building housed Herman Scott's Holt Combine and tractor supplies business. The original brick structure was replaced in 1949 by the current concrete building and was used for many years as an insurance agency (Belknap Insurance and Oliver Insurance).
Constructed in 1949, the current one-story concrete building has a sloped roof with a single row of corbelling caps the parapet. The building has a striped metal awning, large metal sash storefront windows, recessed offset entrance, and Roman brick bulkhead.
Cultural Data based on
research by Donovan & Associates
Here's the original building at this location.
Holt manufacturing, Summer of 1924
Walter C. Oliver, advertisement from October, 1960, E-W
1969 November issue of the E-W
From the 1970 Christmas advertising issue of the E-W
New Year's advertising section of the E-W, 1975.
The ashfall from Mount St. Helens didn't hit Pomeroy as hard as it did communities in the north, but aobut a quarter inch of ash covered the ground the day after the eruption. Local residents, such as Jim Storey pictured here, used hoses and brooms to remove most of the ash, and problems caused by it were minor.
Belknap and Low, 1981
Wandering Pomeroy's Main Street
Area Traffic Cameras
Alpowa Summit
Delaney (20+ miles W on
Highway 12)
SE Washington Traffic
Alerts
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Pomeroy WA 99347
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