Elbert and Opie Balch operate a realty company in this
building now, also containing an office for their son, Matthew J. Balch,
Attorney at Law. The present building
had been constructed as a post office in 1928.
It served that function until the early 1940s when it was moved to the
Dea T. Thomas building at 206 Main Street.
The building at 106 Main was then sold to Robert Shelton for his
barbershop following the 1942 fire in Jim Williams' store building at 100
Main. Shelton's barbershop was operated
by his son Hoyte Shelton after Robert retired.
Hoyte lived at 114 Church Street and died in 1997. Then the
building was inherited by Teresa Reed and Pat Whitworth, his
nieces. For a while the building was operated
as a florist shop, then leased to Dana Burrows for her hair and nail salon
business called Studio 106. In 2012
Studio 106 moved to 16 Main, perhaps in a sense losing only the “0” from the
name.
