The Rains Building, on East 4th Street (Ocean Blvd.) Four businesses, including Rains Poultry (1946-1949), a candy store (est. 1947), a tile and linoleum store.
This building was originally the Roebuck Building, built in 1927 on U.S. 1 near Frazier Creek, by Robert R. Roebuck, housing the Rob Roy Hotel and the Economy Grocery. It was sold to William Rice in November 1945, remodeled, and reopened as the Rice's Hotel & Restaurant. Rice's Market, on the first floor of the hotel and restaurant, was added in September 1949 and a Standard Service station was built next door in November 1949. Rice Hotel was closed in 1956.
Three men in military uniforms. Photo taken in France, likely during World War I. John Wendell Hussey identified on the left. Hussey served in the army during World War I and later served as a Martin County commissioner from 1967-1970.
