Cummings Candy & Coffee ~

Barry Cummings, owner of Cummings Candy & Coffee, said the coffee shop has been in the family since 1905.

Photo: Post Gazette

Farmers National Bank ~

Photo: Indiana Geological Survey

Worsley's ~

A corner of our lives. 

Photo: Gerald D. Fisher

Lowry House ~

[At the corner of Jefferson and Main]

This pen and ink drawing of an earlier view of the Lowry House hotel used to hang in my grandmother's house. I remember hearing that she had commissioned it from a local artist, Robert C. Rehm. It is based on an old photograph. 
- - - Jeff Schalles

Sun Drug Store

Highly frequented downtown drug store. We did Run to Sun . . .

Butler's Howard Johnson's ~

This plush restaurant 
was at the corner of North Main and Fulton Streets.

Inside the Court House ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Digging Out ~

1976

Thanks: Leslie McKain

The Worsley's Building ~

The building was so badly damaged in a fire on Friday night, March 11, 2016 that it will have to be torn down.
Photo: John Cingolani

Johnson's Restaurant ~

Not Howard Johnson's. This was the Johnson family that was part owner of Lloyd-Johnson Co. This is actually the same store, long before the Office Supply store was in it.

Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

Lowry House ~

Photo: Helen Lowry Schalles

Lowry House ~ 1907

Thanks: Georgia Nanni Tavira

Vacant Lot ~

At the the corner of Main and Cunningham Streets
with a sign reminding us of an excellent Mens' store.

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Is the Penn Theater coming back?

Photo: Mike Rehm

June 6, 2015
Good news! Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation is now taking bids, and expects to accept one this week, to repair the abandoned Penn Theater's marquee and façade.

The foundation has allocated $30,000 for the project, likely to start this month, said Dave Farkas, director of the foundation's Main Street projects.

Read more: About the revival.

Old Butler Hospital ~

Photo: Robert Emigh

Bygone Butler ~

This stately home, known as the Showalter Residence, was located at Fulton and Main Streets, where Nationwide Insurance Company was, and adjacent to Howard Johnson's.

Thanks: Robert Emigh

Benson's and McCarren's

It must have been a hot summer day on Main Street.

Butler Ford Service ~

For many years, served us well.

Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

Natili's Closing ~

 Photo: Steve Hindmann

Butler is saddened.
September 27, 2014
We are losing our favorite restaurant.

Hear Vince tell the story click.

Natili's North ~

Natili's South has closed. The remaining restaurant

will now be located at 

Natili's North

on North Main Street. 

Photo: Barbara Bloom