Seymour & Lyon's Twin Stores 1900

News item in Tampico Tornado Newspaper: April 21, 1900
"M. R. Lyon has commenced excavating for the cellar of his new brick store. Fred Seymour will start this week to move the buildings off his lot so that he can commence excavating the cellar for the erection of the building he is to erect in conjunction with Mr. Lyon."

Nat'l Registry of Historic Places (1982):
113 S. Main St. was built in 1900 by Fred Seymour & housed the Seymour Grocery Store. It is now the home of Ronald Reagan Gift Shop.

115 S. Main St. was built in 1900 by M. R. Lyon. It has been a funeral home since 1903 (Note: 113 & 115 were built simultaneously and share a common wall.)