Shaw, M. W., Building
2427 Ave. D, Galveston, TXOne of the earlier brick commercial structures remained intact outside the Strand district. Appears to have been built by 1879, perhaps by an R.F. Martin. Purchased in the early 1890s by M.W. Shaw who owned the building for long period. Shaw was a jeweler as well as vice president of the Galveston Trust and Safe Deposit Co., neither located in this building. The building housed a wide variety of retail businesses over the years.
The building has served as a landmark along 25th Street. It also anchors the west corner of the block. Winston's or the Central Hotel, the oldest frame commercial building in downtown Galveston, is on the east corner.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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