Brewers Exchange, also known as Murdock Place, is a historic

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located at

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. It is a three-story

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style building designed by Joseph Evans Sperry (1854-1930) and built in 1896. The façade is faced with

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and includes such decorative elements as two-story half-round Ionic pilasters,

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s, pediments, window surrounds, a garland frieze, and a balustrade at the edges of a flat roof. It was used by the exchange for only a short time. Brewers Exchange was listed on the

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in 1985.

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