201-205 N. Main St.

Buca. 1945 
Simple, striated brick two-story commercial building. Recessed panel above second story windows. Row of corbelling and a concrete cap. Modern awning, windows, and doors at street level. This corner lot was the location for several prominent hotels in Hendersonville's early history. 

Photo taken 1987.

HISTORIC MARKER PLACED IN 2009:

Nuckolls Building ca. 1945 Built by H. A. Nuckolls, tenants have been Starnes Paint & Wallpaper, Nu Better Foods, Farnsworth Furniture and Sherwood's Restaurant. On this corner in 1842 the town's first hotel, the Ripley House, opened as a stagecoach stop. Over the years the hotel expanded to a three-story, pebbledash building with 150 rooms and was renamed the Globe, the Imperial, the Gates and finally, the St. Johns Hotel. In October 1915, the hotel burned.