The building on South Street, across from the Lutheran Church and to the left of the Albemarle Police Department, is all that remains of the oldest brick building in Stanly County. The left side of the building was constructed in 1891-92. When completed there were three sections, but the left and center portions were demolished in the late 1950s when those portions of the building were deemed unsafe. The right side of the current building was originally a one-story annex that later had an upper floor added to match the left side. The first businesses in the original building were from Concord. Morrow Brothers and Heath opened there in 1897. Today’s photo shows customers and employees posing in front of the building when it was occupied by Morrow Brothers and Heath. From left: Ed. N. Smith, Henry F. Pemberton, Sallie Heath, Bessie Miller, Mamie Hearne, John D. Heath, Fred Palmer, Martin M. Efird, Clarence Betts, J.M. Morrow, Albert S. Lentz, Unknown, P.J. Huneycutt, Unknown, Henry S. Freeman, John M. Boyett, William H. Hearne, Henry Milton, Unknown. {Lewis Bramlett – Stanly County Historical Society}