The story
Founded by Christian Geils and bought by J.C. Moehling in 1882, the store stocked farm tools, coal, seed, feed, groceries and shoes and housed the village's first post office (1885-1897). The building was later moved to 10 S Pine St.
Everything that was here
- 1882–present
Moehling General StoreRetail Store
General store, post office and railroad office rolled into one.
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Nearby history
Keefer's Pharmacy
5 W Prospect Ave · 62 m away
From 15 prescriptions a day to 285.
Mary Jayne's Ladies Apparel
15 W Prospect Ave · 63 m away
A women's clothing shop that outlasted three decades of fashion.
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)
13 E Northwest Hwy · 67 m away
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
Prospect Theater
118 S Main St · 88 m away
Mount Prospect's first real movie house, 450 seats beside the truck traffic of Route 83.
Central Continental Bakery
101 South Main Street · 98 m away
Edward Busse Building
100 E Northwest Hwy · 133 m away
Nearly a century of Busse-family ownership ended with a $1.7 million sale and a bulldozer.
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