Roanoke Route Walking Tour Stop 2: Noah's Grocery Store

Noah’s Grocery Store, 1906

104 N. Oak St.

Built in 1906, this structure initially served as a retail store for Thomas Brand, a prominent Roanoke businessman who built this as a furniture store. In subsequent years, it housed Bourland and Son ~ Furniture, Hardware and Lumber. For many years, James Noah and his father, Monroe, operated a grocery store in this space. At one point, there were at least three grocery stores operating within a two-block stretch of Oak Street. Today, it houses the original Babe's Chicken restaurant.

Charles Pickett, Jesse Jones, Merl Strickland, and Foy Barrow pose in front of Bourland and Son ~ Furniture, Hardware and Lumber store on September 7, 1913.

Noah’s Grocery Store on Oak Street, taken in 1953, and later as a welding shop.