History
Jerry Ellis (born Gerald Elovitz) founded the original store with the late Harry Andler when the two joined together to sell a stock of appliances. The original Building #19 was located at the former Hingham shipyard, where the buildings were numbered, and the store retained the nondescript name on the building rather than pay for a new sign. In the 1980s, the original Building #19 moved to the former GEM (Government Employee Merchandise) building on Derby Street in Hingham, Massachusetts and later opened a store Building #19 1/8 in the old Stewarts store in the Harborlight Mall on Rt 3A in Weymouth, Massachusetts; later that store closed to build a Lowe's Store. The main store Building #19 moved from Derby Street in Hingham and is currently situated back in Weymouth at the old Caldor/Zayre's/Ames building on Route 18. (Ellis noted at one point he had been fired from GEM before he became part of Building #19, and that his flagship store later bought the property. "America is a great country!," he added.
In 2002, Building #19 bought out Spag's and turned it into Spag's 19.
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