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CORDDRY LUMBER WAREHOUSE

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1924. 312 N. Washington St.
  • (Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie)

This is the last of the industrial buildings once found along the banks of the Pocomoke River in Snow Hill. It was built as a warehouse for the W. D. Corddry and Sons Lumber Company, reflecting Snow Hill’s industrial growth during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The frame warehouse is distinguished by a rooftop monitor and extant interior platform elevator. At the same time that Corddry built his warehouse, he erected a house (1924; 114 W. Market Street) that combines Colonial Revival with Craftsman motifs.

The warehouse sits immediately adjacent to the Snow Hill Bridge (1932; J. E. Greiner Company), a steel and concrete, single-span bascule bridge with pedestrian sidewalk, classical tender’s house, and ornamental lampposts. The bridge was part of a larger initiative during the 1920s and 1930s to replace outmoded bridges, accommodating the switch from steamboat to truck transport. On the other side of the bridge are the remnants of a former concrete cannery building.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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What's Nearby

SNOW HILL BUSINESS DISTRICT
WORCESTER COUNTY COURTHOUSE
GOVERNOR JOHN WALTER SMITH HOUSE
CHANCEFORD
SNOW HILL RESIDENTIAL AREA

Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "CORDDRY LUMBER WAREHOUSE", [Snow Hill, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-ES93.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 143-143.

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