Photograph of Bishop & Lewis General Store

This photograph captures the Bishop & Lewis store on the west side of High Street in the early 1890's. The general store was built in 1890 by Frank W. Bishop, who continued to own the property. The store was jointly operated by Bishop and Worthington C. Lewis. In the late 1890's this became the Lewis Department Store. The department store in Worthington employed up to a dozen persons at the turn of the twentieth century. The second floor of this building had a meeting hall with a full stage, which was used for dramatic presentations.

The reverse of the photograph identifies the woman second from left as Sarah W. Lewis, wife of Worthington C. Lewis, who is the center figure in front of the doorway. The notation continues that the old telephone office was in the room behind the hammock in the foreground on the left side of the photograph.

Later, the building was a Kroger Grocery Store in the 1920s, an IGA Food Market at mid-century, the "Nuts and Bolts" section of Worthington Hardware during the late 1900's, and is now home to Grid Furnshings.