Uniontown Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Two commercial buildings occupy the western third of a block a half block north of Main Street in Uniontown. The larger, at 18 South Beeson Boulevard, is a two-and-a-half-story buff brick former department store with a chamfered corner at Beeson Boulevard and Peter Street, built in 1924 after a 1922 fire cleared the site. It was first the Fair Store, a small local department store, and later became a Sears store in 1934. Sears added a north addition in 1956. The second building, at 9 East Peter Street, is a two-story brown brick commercial structure also built in 1924, with a symmetrical storefront and four wooden double-hung sash windows on the upper floor. Its tenants included a billiard parlor in the 1920s, an A&P grocery in the 1930s, and a produce store and meat market in the 1940s and 1950s. Both buildings reflect the commercial growth fueled by the coal and coke economy of the 1920s.