Adgate Block
a.k.a. Rexall Super Drug-Oatman Saw Shop-Armado's Pizzeria
300-306 S. Main St., Lima, OHBuilt for one of Lima's most prominent families the Adgates, and still under this ownership. Well, kept and maintained, this is perhaps the handsetest of the Main St. commercial buildings. Significant for outstanding Victorian Romanesque architecture and very early use of yellow brick.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.