Partially-collapsed building in Eufaula demolished
KJRH
and last updated 2021-07-07 10:25:30-04
EUFAULA, Okla. â Eufaulans watched as crews demolished a 121-year-old building on Main Street Tuesday night. Part of the building, constructed in 1900, collapsed overnight on June 17.
"The entire building is structurally unsound, and thereâs nothing we couldâve done to go back and remedy that," Mark Dobbs, owner of the building, said.
Dobbs bought the old brick-and-mortar building 12 years ago, but his memories inside the building began decades before.
"I grew up in that building," Dobbs said. "My parents knew the owners of the building back in the â50s and â40s. I sat at the countertop in that drug store when I was a little boy.â