MIDDLE SCHOOL'S HISTORICAL SURVEY
By Taylor Nixon and Blane Sinclair

Ta-dahs, or 116 North Rusk St. in downtown Kilgore, is an amazing, historical building.

It was so incredible to be in there where other people were standing 60 years ago.

We can't believe that they haven't made it an historical building yet!

The people who own the building are A.P. and Susie Merrit. They are very interesting people. Tadahs is not deteriorated at all, is in fair condition, except the upstairs is not in real good condition.

It is just so interesting that the building used to be a service station during the oil boom days and that it stayed open 24/7 back then.

The building was also a boarding house, a photography studio and a leather shop.

Ta-dahs walls are made of brick, the foundation is poured concrete and the roof is metal. The most interesting part to me had to have been the upstairs, it had doors with numbers on them, almost like a hotel.

A.P. Merrit said the doors must have been there when it was a boarding house. The building is approximately 7000 square feet. In front of the building there were two boarded up windows and a doorway that looked like it used to have stairs going out of the second story on the front of the building.

BLANE SINCLAIR &TAYLOR NIXON

When you pass by the building you can see where the old gas pumps used to be and in the back of the building there is a place where you could pull your car up in the garage to be worked on.

116 North St. as it appears today, but has been many things in 60 years since it was built. One was a hotel, as shown above by the numbers still on the doors.