Built in 1915, this building replaced a building that had burned. Loeb’s Department Store once stood here and later Eggers Department Store. Mr. Eggers did not have cash registers in the store. Instead, a system of tubes (like the ones seen at banks now) carried the money to a central office where one or two cashiers handled all the money. The downtown department store closed around 1985. WCBI-TV, which has been operating in Columbus since 1956 and was the first television station in North Mississippi, purchased and restored the building for their studio in 1993.
