Dollar General Store on Race Street in the 1970s.
The Maryland Historical Trust, which reviewed the buildings and houses of Cambridge in the 1970s, called the “large gaudy” Dollar General Store signs on the Phillips Hardware Company Building at the corner of Race and Muir Streets “unattractive” and “inappropriate to the building” and said they “detract[ed] from its appearance.” The structure, designed by J. Benjamin Brown, is significant as an example of early 20th century architecture.
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