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507=. Continunt~c~ page~oF ~ 30. 202-212 W, Fourth St. 1913 Spurgeon Bldg. A four-story brick, ceramic faced office building with ground leve~ retail store bays. The str~e fronts and transom have been altered with a variety of 2950's period moderniz~t!onz. Ea upper story contains seven paired double-hung windows with large corner windows set for- ward from the building. A simple extended cornice in a c~assic~l Y~rmet tots the recessed body of the building end decorative stylized symbols are placed between top floor windows. A strange large ornate clock tower and dome looms above the corner at 4th end Syc~uore. This is the third Spurgeon Building located on this site. The building was constructed by the founder o£ Santa Aha, William "Billy" Spurgeon. The f~rst building was 1875, the second was 1886, and the present building was constructed in 1913. This was the prominent location in town f¢.r many years, and most of the doctors and lawyers had offices in the building at one time or another. The corner store on the third building was the Wh~e Cross Drugstore located in good proximity to upstairs doctors. At 208 was F. C. Blaver & Co., a grocery business until 1929 when the present Santa Aha Book ~tore moved from E. Fourth. F. C. Blaver was in business from 1912 to 1929 and was a fashionable orders only establishment. The Roper~arks book store at 210 was at this location from before 1900 to 1914 when it became Sam Stein stationary. Sam Stein stayed ~til 1924 when he moved to th~ 300 block of W. 4th. The present book store continues an 80-year tradition in this location. Asher Jewelry was at street level from 1924 until the 1950;s when Ashley Jewelers continued the business. Of note in the 1930's was the location of W£1green Drug Company in the old White Cross Drug location.