On this day in 1906, the Union Republican announced that the Brown-Rogers Company is planning to enlarge their hardware store by an addition, three stories high.
The store will occupy space on Main Street. The frontage will be 46 feet extending back 47 1/2 feet, giving the firm a total floor space of 28,870 feet.
Plate glass fronts will also be made to their two stories on Fourth Street, including Frank Brown’s.
Fogle Brothers has the contract for the construction work.
Brown-Rogers Company was established in 1880, and was a wholesale hardware company. A 1910 advertisement for the business claimed that they sold agricultural implements, mantels, grates, tiles, paints, oils and varnishes. In fact, a slogan of the company was “if it’s in the hardware line the Brown-Rogers Company has it.”
W. N. Dixson purchased the interest of Major T. J. Brown (deceased) in 1915, and became a partner. When J. M. Rogers, another partner, died in 1924, Mr. Dixson became the head of the firm.
The photo above shows the business when it was located in the block on West Fourth Street at Main Street. Frank Brown was located in the corner building. The business later moved to Liberty Street, then to a building that had access from Fifth, Trade and Cherry Streets.
Photo courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
