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Daniel Low & Co. was a landmark store downtown, using the distinctive 3-story, red brick building, formerly the First Church, built in 1826. This popular store operated from 1874 until 1995.
Many city residents remember shopping for gifts and jewelry in the store with the white columns, chandeliers and wide central staircase. Even when being used as a church, the bottom floor was rented out to retail establishments to offset the cost of maintaining the building. Daniel Low & Co. became famous for their souvenir witch spoon they began making in the 1880's and advertising in national magazines. This lead to the making of their own mail-order catalog which grew to as large as 200 pages.
Seth Low took over after Daniel Low died of a heart attack in the store in 1939 and later the company was run by his widow until the mid-1950s. Bill Follett bought and ran the company until is was sold, along with the building in 1994.

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 *Daniel Low & Co. was a landmark store downtown, using the distinctive 3-story, red brick building, formerly the First Church, built in 1826. This popular store operated from 1874 until 1995.
-*Many city residents remember shopping for gifts and jewelry in the store with the white columns, chandeliers and wide central staircase. Even when being used as a church, the bottom floor was rented out to retail establishments to offset the cost of maintaining the building.
+*Many city residents remember shopping for gifts and jewelry in the store with the white columns, chandeliers and wide central staircase. Even when being used as a church, the bottom floor was rented out to retail establishments to offset the cost of maintaining the building. Daniel Low & Co. became famous for their souvenir witch spoon they began making in the 1880's and advertising in national magazines. This lead to the making of their own mail-order catalog which grew to as large as 200 pages.
-Daniel Low & Co. became famous for their souvenir witch spoon they began making in the 1880's and advertising in national magazines. This lead to the making of their own mail-order catalog which grew to as large as 200 pages.
 *Seth Low took over after Daniel Low died of a heart attack in the store in 1939 and later the company was run by his widow until the mid-1950s. Bill Follett bought and ran the company until is was sold, along with the building in 1994.