Cole's Corner
Drawing and text by kind permission of Jim Bates.

 Cole’s Corner was built as a department store in 1884 and re-built after the ‘Great Fire’ of 1896.

The design was based on those of the department stores in vogue at the time in cities on both sides of the Atlantic, their main feature being two or more floors of sales area, indicated from without by large plate-glass windows. The building takes full advantage of its corner site rising through three floors to a pavilion roof crowned with cast-iron railings and a flagpole.