Located in Commodore, Green Township, Indiana Co., PA
[USGS Commodore, PA 7 1/2 mi. Quad Map.   UTM:  17 E.673610 - N.4508680.]
Construction date: ca.1924

DESCRIPTION:
Clearfield Supply Company Commodore Store
The former Clearfield Supply Company Store at Commodore is a massive building of concrete block construction, with a brick veneer on the front wall.  The two-story building, which measures 160 feet X 65 feet, is four bays wide by seven bays deep, and is covered by a shallow gable roof behind low parapet walls.  The facade is arranged around recessed double-leaf doors; plate glass display windows to either side have been partially filled in with brick.  An exterior elevator tower is located at the rear of the buildiing in the northwest corner.  To the rear of the building is a low one-story concrete block addition, housing a fire department garage.

HISTORY:
Clearfield Supply Company Commodore Store
The mining town of Commodore, named for Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, was established by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation in 1920.  The imposing Clearfield Supply Company store was built in 1924.  The store continued in operation until the early 1950's, after the mines were closed and abandoned.  In 1970, it was purchased from the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp. by the Green Township Community Action Center and remodeled the following year.  It now serves as Commodore's Community Center.

(History and description of Clearfield Supply Company Commodore Store, adapted with additional data from "Indiana County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1993,"  America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

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