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The previous post Landmark Lost shows the outside of the building and doesn't indicate the severity of the damage to the building. This photo shows the building is just a shell of its former self.

Every time a building such as this is destroyed, another bit of history settles into the ashes. It won't be rebuilt and another small town square is minus one of its finest and most remembered residents. Sad but true.

A fire that began overnight on Wednesday at 1:45 am on the north side of the Unionville Square has left one building a total loss. Unionville Fire Chief Tim Montgomery reports half of the building housing a club for men to hang out fell in, and two buildings attached to it sustained smoke and water damage. Firefighters fought the fire from about 1:45 on Wednesday morning until 11:30 or noon before getting it under control. Crews then cleaned up and hit hot spots until about 2 oclock Wednesday afternoon. Montgomery says the club in the building that collapsed had only been open about a month. The building had previously been unoccupied for approximately three years. No one was in the building at the time the fire started, and the apartments upstairs in the building were unoccupied. No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire under investigation by the State Fire Marshals Office. Information from KTTN News, Trenton, MO