Beauty Bar

The Beauty Bar in Maryville Missouri is a business that just opened in 2024. It is located on 120 E 3rd Street near the east corner with Market Street. It has been thriving and grown in the short time since it has been open. They have changed the whole outside of the building and made it look more modern. You can see this from the picture of it on google maps to the picture I took just last week of the building. They specialize in services such as massages, lashes and brows, micro needling, acne facials, and dermaplaning. The business owner, Brady Bugh, is a licensed esthetician, and has worked at a dermatology skin cancer center.

The Beauty Bar has not always been here in this building. This certain building has been many different businesses since it was built. In 1886 it was The American Hotel connected with the building next to it to the west. They did this so the hotel would be bigger and could hold more guests as more people were deciding to come to Maryville. There was also a meat store in the bottom specifically in the building the Beauty Bar is in now. The meat store was in the bottom so that guests who were staying could come and get meat when they were staying there. Mrs. Mccoy took possession of the hotel in 1888, with it having a one year lease, which then led to it changing to a different hotel. The type of store on the lower level switched from an American Hotel to the Esmond Hotel in 1891 as a result.

With that switch then the bottom switched from a meat factory to a cigar store. These changes were made because it had a new owner, and they wanted to change the name, and the type of store under. As the world was changing the type of stores that were most popular were changing as well. Minnie Grant, the owner at the time, refurnished the whole hotel in 1891 so accommodations were well met as everything was new. The hotel now looked nicer and had nicer furniture and materials. Next in 1900 it just completely switched to a whole cigars store. It switched to a whole cigars store because cigar stores were very popular in the 1900s, so a cigar store was a better investment. Then finally in 1909 it was just vacant and nothing was in it at all. Through these different years it is shown how drastic this one specific building changed from one type of business to the next.

"Centenary hill," Nodaway Democrat, February 2, 1888.

"Esmond House," Nodaway Democrat, July 30, 1891.