The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . OShea Bros. Store in 1S7S. but in a short time the firm again founditself pressed for room to accommodatetheir rapidly-increasing trade. In thespring of 1877, the late John C. Moul-ton built an addition to the rear of thebuilding, which increased the floor space to 3,550 square feet. The sto< kof goods up to this time consisted onlyof dry goods and clothing, but nextcame a demand for carpetings, therebeing at that time only one small stockin town. To meet this
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . OShea Bros. Store in 1S7S. but in a short time the firm again founditself pressed for room to accommodatetheir rapidly-increasing trade. In thespring of 1877, the late John C. Moul-ton built an addition to the rear of thebuilding, which increased the floor space to 3,550 square feet. The sto< kof goods up to this time consisted onlyof dry goods and clothing, but nextcame a demand for carpetings, therebeing at that time only one small stockin town. To meet this demand, OSheaEros, leased more land in the rear ofthe Moulton building, and erected an-other addition, 35 by iS feet, for acarpet room. but the patronage of the establish-ment and the consequent demand fora larger and more varied stock had inthe meantime increased faster than the. (IShea Store in 1882. accommodations, and (>Shea Bros, soonfound themselves again cramped forroom to conduct their growing the spring of 1N7X they leased theland on the north side of their store,and erected a block of about thirty feetfront and seventy feet depth. The oldand new stores were connected and thenew building accommodated the cloth-ing department on the first floor, whilethe carpet and custom-made clothingdepartments were upstairs. The new building gave about 4,000square feet more floor space, making 44 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. the largest store in Laconia and proba-bly the largest in New Hampshire atthat time. The establishment certainlyappeared large for a town the size ofLaconia, and many of our people pre-dicted a downfall and failure. Pluckand perseverance, however, won again,and in the autumn of 1S82, when theLaconia Democrat vacated the rooms store in New Hampshire, containingseventeen different departments. No further changes were made untilth
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