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Smith's Pharmacy

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Early Commercial

Built
  
1946 (1946), 1952

NRHP Reference #
  
02000618

Smith's Pharmacy

Location
  
3114 Chestnut Ave., Newport News, Virginia

Architect
  
Livas, Henry L.; Walker, Elbert

Smith's Pharmacy is a historic commercial building located at Newport News, Virginia. It is a two-story brick building. The first floor was built in 1946 to house the pharmacy with the second floor being added in 1952 to serve as office space. The interior of the first floor remains virtually unaltered with the original pharmaceutical retail space, counters, soda fountain and wooden booths. It was the pharmacy of Dr. Charles Calvin Smith, an African-American pharmacist who established the store to serve that community in Newport News. He opened the first black owned pharmacy in Newport News in 1921. The Smith's Pharmacy was sold to the Eckerd Corporation in 1999.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

Smith's Pharmacy Wikipedia