For more than 30 years after the turn of the century, the Stein Brothers Store provided quality merchandise from all over the world to south central Nebraska shoppers. Located at 620 West Second Street, the Stein building was easily identifiable by the unique lion's head on the brick facade. It was built in 1906 by former Nebraska Governor and U.S. Senator Charles Dietrich after fire destroyed an earlier Stein's Store at the same site. Stein's closed on November 17, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. From 1934 to 1968 Montgomery Ward's occupied the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places as an outstanding example of Prairie-style commercial architecture.