This commercial building appears on the earliest Sanborn Fire Insurance map of New Albany, in 1886. The west hald of the building - 141 East Market - was used as a grocery store for a number of years in the late 19th and early 20th century, under a variety of names and owners. The Hannan family was the longest-tenured of these, with the Hannan Grocery listed here in the New Albany City Directories from 1901 to 1912. At other times the space also served as a confectionery, a furniture store, and Montfort Music Shop. At the time of the 1937 flood (photo below from the collection of the Indiana Room of the Floyd County Library) it housed the Manus Packing Company. Barth's Bakery was the long-time occupant of the east half of the building.

141 East Market was later incorporated into the downtown retail fixture The Fair Store, which was located immediately to the west in the historic Losson Block. The second photo below - also from the Indiana Room collection - shows the Fair Store circa 1965 with its iconic neon sign.