Historical Marker
Ryus Store Building
Historical marker location:
608 Oak St., Graham, Texas
( 608 Oak St., Graham)
Marker installed: 1974
Druggist Joseph E. Ryus (1848-1909) built this structure of locally made bricks in 1879 after his frame store on this lot burned. The large room above Ryus's Drugstore served as Judge Andrew P. McCormick's first courtroom in 1879 when Graham was named site of a Federal District Court, which later moved to Abilene. Since purchasing the building in 1892, Knights of Pythias Corinthian Lodge No. 143 has used the upper floor as a meeting hall.
(Recorded Texas Historic Landmark-1974).