Buildings on the 100 Block of West Market Street in the 1990s

The photograph above was taken in the 1990s by a member of the Erie County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. The Thrift Shop of Grace Church was then located at 136 East Market Street in a building known as the Kugel Building. According to the Ohio Historic Inventory for Erie County, the Kugel Building was built around 1910. Through the years, there have been businesses on the street level, and apartments and offices on the upper floor. The Kugel Building was constructed from brick, with a stone foundation. The name “Kugel” is cut into the cement above the third floor windows. Herman and Benjamin Kugel emigrated to the United States from Hungary in the 1860s. They were successors to their brother Joseph’s dry goods store which opened in Sandusky in 1859. The Kugel brothers had stores in three different locations in Sandusky, the last one being located in the Kugel Building. Next to the Thrift Shop in the picture is Faroh’s Candies, at 128 East Market Street. Faroh’s Finest Candies first opened in Lorain, and then the company branched out to Amherst, Sandusky and Elyria. Faroh’s was located at 128 East Market Street in Sandusky from 1961 through the early 2000s. 

Here is an advertisement from the opening gala of Faroh’s in Sandusky, from the October 5, 1961 issue of the Sandusky Register: