DUANE
Duane's take
Here's how the official marker tells it, and I'll do my best to do it justice. Somewhere in Georgetown, Williamson County, there stands a limestone building that has been quietly outlasting everyone who ever walked through its door. It was built in 1884 — limestone, solid as the hill country itself — to house the Sanders and Lesesne Drugstore.
A pharmacy, right from the start. And here's what gets me: it stayed a pharmacy for the next seventy-six years. Seventy-six years.
People were born, grew old, and passed on, and that building just kept on filling prescriptions. William D. Nichols ran the drugstore from 1887 until 1892, five years behind that counter.
Then, in 1892, Dr. Thomas B. Stone acquired the business.
And whatever Stone did, he did it right — because the place carried his name for more than fifty years. Stone's. Just Stone's.
You don't hold onto a name that long in a Texas town without earning it. Now the building itself is something to look at. Italianate influences, the marker says — arched windows reaching up like they're trying to catch the light, and a pressed metal cornice running along the top like a crown.
Limestone and ironwork, standing at the corner of the last century and this one. They called it the KGTN Building somewhere along the way, and Georgetown claimed it as a landmark. Which, after seventy-six years of keeping the town's medicine cabinet stocked, seems about the least they could do.
What the marker says
(The KGTN Building) This limestone commercial structure was built in 1884 to house the Sanders & Lesesne Drugstore. It remained in use as a pharmacy for the next 76 years. William D. Nichols operated the drugstore from 1887 until 1892. In that year, Dr. Thomas B. Stone acquired the business, which was known as Stone's for more than 50 years. The Georgetown landmark, which exhibits Italianate influences, features arched windows and a pressed metal cornice. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1983