126 W Bruce St

From the National Register nomination

One-story cinder block commercial building with a stretcher-bond brick veneer (painted on the front). The shed roof has flat parapets, and a cantilevered awning with curved corners, a metal fascia, and a plywood ceiling projects over large plate glass windows. On the front are a recessed entry and a wood-panel garage door. The Blue Ridge Gas Co. occupied the building before 1965 when Columbia Gas moved in. One account suggests Isaac S. Ewing built the building as a rental about 1940, but Sanborn maps do not show it until after 1945. The Check-R-Board Store was located here in 1955.