Shultes and Adams Store

1844 Oscar Tyler (~1801->1874) built a store at the intersection of the Berne-East Berne Road and the Knox - Berne Road. He lived in a small brick house west of where St. Bernadette´s church is now located. Known as house and lot of Jacob Ball. Former William Ball farm. In 1850 sold to John Warner 2nd.
1850 Tyler moved to Albany and sold the store to Samuel H. Davis (1807-1876) who ran it until his death. In 1866 he lived at 1592 Helderberg Trail.
Reinhart and Hochstrasser operated the store.
Later J. W. Hart and Son operated the store.
1898 Franklin Shultes (1865-1934) and Arthur Adams moved their store here from the original location in the Daniel Simmons Hotel. Mr. Adams moved from Berne in the early 1900s.
1919 Sanford Shultes (1875-1943) bought the business from his brother and ran a general store at this location

From Milton Hart's Stories: Sanford Shultes ran the store right at the intersection and his son Franklin ran it for a while after him. Sanford who we all called Sant, sold mostly groceries and a little bit of hardware but not too much.

1943 on the death of Sanford Shultes the store passed to his son Franklin L. (1915-1998) and his wife Esther Shultes. They later moved the store across the street to what had been the Lower Hotel. In the 1970's the store was sold ending a period of over 100 years of merchantile business of the Shultes Family
This building became Foster's Antiques

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Shultes and Adams store, from the Willard Osterhout collection
Interior of the store
Shultes's store
Business Card, courtesy of the Jim Snyder Family
Back of Business Card,courtesy of the Jim Snyder Family