1736-1738 Main Street
The Boyne Building
Members of the Boyne family, which initially operated a marble yard and blacksmith shop from this property, commissioned architects with the firm of Sams & Carter to design this Italianate style building, which was completed in 1901--the same year as the neighboring Brown Building to the south. The Boyne Building historically had many uses and tenants, including a grocery and meat market, as well as drug, candy and shoe stores on its ground floor and a boarding house and hotel within its second and third stories. From the 1940s through the early 2000s, however, this building was known as the location of the Elite Epicurean – one of the city’s leading restaurants
