NAtower
Fruit Exchange, Martinsburg, West Virginia
This brick warehouse type building was used in Marintsburg for
decades as a fruit exchange for local farmers. It allowed
them to get their fruit to market. Primarily the fruits were
apples, but peaches, pears and paw paws were also exchanged.
Located right behind NA Tower was a fairly common structure in
photographs. It also seems to be located near the tracks,
but I'm not sure if it was ever close enough to get rail
service. I also think the exchange was closed in the 1970s,
but for me, I wanted to model it as it was still in use in
1982. The building was razed in 2021 and is just a vacant
lot now.
I made this building from N-scale Architects styrene
brick sheet. It is a sandwich of the sheets with styrene
strips in between for rigidity. The floor is Northeastern
Scale Lumber. The roof is sheet styrene underneath with
styrene shingle sheet on top.
